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- Mar 9
- 3 min
#memadeshade February Winner
The nights are already lighter and there is a feeling of optimism in the air. We hope you're all feeling a little lighter and brighter too. February's #memadeshade Instagram competition has delivered a whopping amount of entries, over 300, and as always it's great to see such a wide variety if shades using our lampshade making kits. This month's stand out shade is certainly that and @emma_mckie_designs is our deserving winner and her £100 voucher to spend on our website, is a
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- Feb 22
- 2 min
3 creative services for next level lampshades
Pimping your lampshade is easier than you think. There’s the DIY route, that we all know and love, using one of our lampshade making kits with beautiful fabric, sophisticated trims or coloured, metallic or even neon PVC's, to bring your shade to life. Or you could use one of our 3 creative services, to really enhance your shade making and take it to the next level. Pick from designing your own fabric, creating your own bespoke shade dimensions or trying out one of our excitin
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- Feb 18
- 3 min
#memadeshade January Winner
After what can only be described as a very loooong January, #memadeshade is back for 2021! Yey! And we've got off to a great start with lots of fabulous shades, in all shapes and sizes to brighten up our #memadeshade Instagram competition and hopefully provide our makers with new inspiration and ideas for using one of our lampshade making kits. And this month's winner certainly sticks with the theme of 'bright'! This gorgeous fuchsia shade by Lauren of @juniper_and_spice is
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- Feb 8
- 2 min
Share the Love - Celebrating our independent Lampshade Makers
February is the month of love and we thought we’d "Share the love" by celebrating our incredible independent lampshade makers and small businesses. Always ready to support our maker community, whether it’s a simple question about a product, helping you design your own fabric or making up trade packs in our warehouse, we love helping you expand your business; side hustle or main source of income. Shape, size, style, trims, fabrics and creative additions make every shade except
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- Jan 4
- 4 min
5 resolutions to kickstart your lampshade making year
Happy New Year! We’re finally in 2021 and we’re hoping it’s a better and brighter year for everyone. To celebrate our craft and your passion, we'd love you to kick off your lampshade making year with a bang and encourage you to try something new and exciting in 2021. Whether you’ve been considering making your first Dannells Lampshade Making Kit for your home or are already an accomplished shade maker, take inspiration from and get creative with, our 5 resolutions to take you
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- Dec 22, 2020
- 2 min
#memadexmasshade winner
We're finally at the end of what can only be described as a challenging year and we'd like to say a huge Thank You for your amazing entries to the Dannells #memadeshade Instagram competition, that have kept lampshade making inspiration and creativity flowing throughout the year. With nearly 2,500 entries, not only have you all had a chance of winning, but have helped create a fabulous library of gorgeous lampshades, to help inspire new and existing makers. There really is not
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- Dec 9, 2020
- 5 min
Meet the Maker - Alison Bick
Channelling the beauty of her home surroundings in Cornwall, Alison Bick's bold and beautiful lampshades certainly pack a punch. Using her talents in graphic design, Alison has created a unique modern floral style that translates perfectly to lampshades, both large and small and as a recent winner of our #memadeshade Instagram competition, she stole the show with her whopping one metre Bird of Paradise shade! We find out more about Alison's inspiration, her approach to lampsh
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- Dec 2, 2020
- 1 min
Join us for a LIVE festive Lantern Making Kit workshop on You Tube!
It’s workshop time! After a string of successful LIVE Lampshade Making Kit workshops in #lockdown1 we’re back with a mini festive themed treat! Sam, our Dannells Demonstrator, will show you how to make up one of our festive Lantern Making Kits on You Tube on Friday 4th December at 1.30 pm (UK time) and we'd love to see you there! Our Lantern Making Kits were practically made for the festive season (but can also be used at any time of the year!) and are compact give a rosy gl
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- Nov 10, 2020
- 4 min
#memadeshade October winner
Are you hunkering down and making shades? It seems you are with another bumper month of entries into our October #memadeshade Instagram competition, made up from our lampshade making kits. We love that this month's winner from @natashasmarttextiles reflects this time of the year - cosy and warm, with a soft flickering back ground glow! Natasha has talents aplenty and not only makes these beautiful lampshades using wet felting techniques, but also makes bags, pouches, bowls, a
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- Aug 12, 2020
- 4 min
Lampshade Kit Hack #4 – Neon Stitched Empire Cork Lampshade
The trend for natural materials has been working its way in to our homes for a couple of years now with rattan, cork and cane making a big come back. We couldn’t resist jumping on the bandwagon too, by bringing some of our laminated cork lampshade PVC to life with an Empire lampshade kit and a pop of bold neon stitching. Made by laminating a thin layer of cork to 300 micron clear PVC, our cork lampshade making PVC lights beautifully and has a soft, warm feel. The bright contr
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- Aug 10, 2020
- 4 min
#memadeshade July Winner
As we launch into high summer, the shades keep on coming for our #memadeshade - Instagram competition and the passion for reflecting your style and personality using one of our Needcraft lampshade making kits isn't slowing down! We've had a bumper month this month, with more entries than ever before. Our monthly #memadeshade winner for July is @shadydaisyco, who has made this amazing monstera shade as a commission for a client and she wins our monthly prize of a £100 voucher
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- Jul 9, 2020
- 3 min
#memadeshade June Winner
It's been another bumper month for our Instagram #memadeshade competition and it seems that staying at home has definitely released some inner creativity making our Needcraft lampshade making kits into some proper beauties! This month the #memadeshade title goes to this fabulous bamboo print cone shade made by Carolyn of @owlandcatinteriors, who wins our monthly prize of a £100 voucher to be spent at Dannells. With an equally good eye for a shades and lamp bases alike - who w
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- Jun 15, 2020
- 6 min
How to run your own Virtual Lampshade Workshop
So, as some of you may know we love to make a YouTube tutorial video, but we took it one step further and hosted our very first LIVE YouTube Virtual Lampshade Making Workshop, which we think was a real success. Thanks to everyone who managed to tune in and we hope you enjoyed it! Here is a link to our Workshop Recording on YouTube - click here! It was the second time that we ventured into the virtual workshop world. The first was via Zoom in April, making up our 30cm drum la
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- Jun 12, 2020
- 4 min
Lampshade Kit Hack #3 – Making a wallpaper lampshade
Our Lampshade kits are not only for beautiful fabrics. Making your own bespoke lampshades from scratch using wallpaper is easy to achieve, with the right know how and a couple of easy #hacks. Whether you simply use off cuts left over from papering your room, or want to use an eye-catching wallpaper for lampshades to sell in your retail collection, working with the vertical pattern of wallpaper needs a little thinking through to get a professional finish. In the second of our
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- Jun 5, 2020
- 3 min
#memadeshade May winner
May has brought a month of much needed sunshine, but that's not the only light that's been shining! You've wowed us again with your #memadeshades of all shapes and sizes from our Needcraft lampshade making kits. And after a month of the outdoor inspiration, it seems the iconic bees have your votes and May's talented winner is @edavisonarcher.art, who wins a £100 voucher to be spent at Dannells. Her winning screenprinted #memadeshade is just one of the many stylish hand design
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- May 15, 2020
- 3 min
Lampshade kit hack #2 - Rainbow Ribbon shade
If you are venturing out for daily exercise or essential food shopping seeing the array of rainbows emblazoned across the windows of nearly every house is a real heartwarming moment. The support for our keyworkers has been phenomenal and the rainbow is quickly becoming synonymous with a huge 'thank you' to those that deserve it most. Along the same theme, we've been playing with our Needcraft ribbon shade kit and came up with this creative and fun #lampshadehack. Our Ribbon
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