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Bulbous Gold Lamp Base Learn how to convert a dull lamp base with foam spheres. From "Craft Lab" episode DCLB-125

Guest Sonya Nimri joins guest Jennifer Perkins and demonstrates how to take a lamp base and cover it with foam spheres. She then covers the sphere with masking tape and uses gold leaf along with copper and silver accents for a metallic look.

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	Create this lamp by covering the base with foam spheres and then gold leafing the foam.
	Figure A
	Figure B

Project designed by Sonya Nimri.

Materials:

stick lamp base
Three 6" plastic foam balls
gold, copper and silver leaf
leaf sizing
masking tape
8" saw
1/2" brush
black acrylic paint

Bulbous Gold Lamp Base

1. Make a line down the middle of the foam balls and cut them in half with your saw.

2. Make a small groove down the middle of each half ball so that the lamp stem can fit snugly inside your ball (figure A).

3. Mask the ball closed, making sure that every bit of foam is covered by tape.

4. Brush sizing on with your brush according to the directions on the package.

5. Gold leaf the balls (figure B), then add specks of silver and copper where there are holes.

6. Lightly brush the balls with black paint and rub it in.

RESOURCES :

Foam
Dow Foam
Website: www.dow.com

Duct Tape
Henkel Consumer Adhesives
Website: www.henkelca.com

GUESTS :

Sonya Nimri
Phone: 310-396-6243
E-mail: Sonya@sonyastyle.com
Website: www.sonyastyle.com