Nursery details: a papercut lampshade

Remember a few months ago when I posted a sneak peek of a project I was working on? It was a lampshade that I spent countless hours on, drawing and cutting cute animal shapes into darling circles of solid papers, stringing them together with still more darling circles of print papers, and... I hated it. It turned out terribly. Just a big hot mess.

So instead I whipped together a simple but highly personal papercut lampshade that took me all of an afternoon, sitting at the coffee table with a movie or two playing in the background.

I couldn't share it with you before, because we were keeping baby's name a secret until after she was born. But now that the baby's out of the bag, check out her handmade lampshade...

I just cut her name over and over (and over) into a roll of lightly ribbed kraft paper that I bought at the post office.

Of course, it was slightly more complicated than that. I first cut out a length of paper the height I wanted, and slightly longer than I needed. Then, I created a template in Word of the name typed three times in a row, and printed it out backwards. (I actually can't recall what font I used, and I've deleted the document now. But it looks like Garamond, right? Or possibly Andalus, which I've been loving recently.)

Then I traced the template over and over on the side of paper that I wanted to be the inside of the lampshade.

Once I'd finished the cutting, I glued the shade onto a lampshade form that I had purchased previously.

By the way, photographing a lit lampshade is quite difficult. The best way I could find was to do it at dusk, so that the lamp wasn't the only light in the room, but I'd welcome any tips.

Even though it was difficult to photograph, I really love how this project turned out and I was thinking of adding it to the shop... what do you think?