This is a fun project, but a little bit labor intensive. Once again I found a floor lamp at a thrift store for $20. It's a nice lamp and you can rotate the arms so the light can shine up or down. It also has a dimmer swithch. So, the first thing you do is collect the tab tops. You have to ask your family and friends to help collect them or you can purchase bags of them off of ebay. I "sewed" them together with thin wire that you get at a floral or craft shop. After I had several strips, I then molded the chicken wire. To be different, I decided to do one globe with a sphere like shade and the other globe with an octopus like shade. I attached the strips to the chicken wire until it was completely covered.
Below is the "octupus" shade. I weaved a thicker wire through the tabs so the "arms" would stay put.
I like this idea because, as you can see, it creates cool shadows against the wall.
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