Boo Lamp!

Ever have a old lamp that you want to do something to?  I have several actually and was looking on pinterest on saw something close to this so I thought I give it a try.  I really love the boos in Mario and just had to make this!  So let me tell you how I did it.

To get started you are going to need:
1. a lamp
2. ping pong balls *found them in the sport section at walmart*
3. krazy glue
4. A black sharpie
5. A red sharpie

To start, find out how you want to make the lamp.  I had my boo's start at the farthest part away from the post on the lamp stand and then gradually moved inwards to give it balance.  After you decided how you want your boo's placed get to glueing.  Starting with a bottom ring I glued down the balls and for the rows above it I placed two small dots of glue on the bottom of a not glued down ping pong ball and placed it on the first ring of balls that was glued down.  I repeated this step doing this all the way up to the top.  Now I had troubles at some time on some did not fit how they wanted to but don't get discouraged you wont even notice the small gaps.

About half way I got to excited and started drawing faces on the ping pong balls. You can do that or just wait to all of them are on.  For the faces i alternated between the faces on each one of the balls and used black first then went back with the red sharpie.  Adding the blush and color to the tongues.  After all that was done the base of my lamp was completed and looked this this. Thanks for taking the time to read.  Hoped you like it and if you have any questions just message me!