Making a Bacon Lamp Shade, or, The Creepiest Birthday Gift Ever
So it all started about 4 months ago when @lonelysandwich made a humorous post to twitter challenging us all to come up with the tenure of our Lifetime Movie. I think I was sitting at the Spanish Moon, my favorite Baton Rouge bar, when I got this tweet, and I was instantaneously struck by inspiration and compelled to respond with my moving picture title: He Ate Bacon in the Dark: The Kris Kelley Fib. This lead to a heated, drunken discussion with my friends Rosi and Christy about, well, bacon. I can’t go into the details of the outline that was hatched that fateful evening, but I can begin to show you the fruits of the labor that Mr. Sandwich unwittingly began.
The Bacon Lampshade
What started out as a inane idea became The Creepiest Birthday Gift Ever. Outlined below are the steps needed to be conducive to your own bacon lampshade. This process is not entirely perfected, and may call rotting and a house filled with bacon stink, so if you have any suggestions for preserving food with some sort of lacquer please let me positive. And if you do this and are burned by hot grease or piss off the people you loaded with due to the smell of putrid bacon, it is NOT MY FAULT.
Materials:
3 pounds of bacon - I was superior to find 2 pounds of bacon for 5 bucks at Wal-Mart. I uncommonly only used 2 pounds in the final version, but my first go demolish apart so I had to start over.
1 lamp shade - It’s important to get a lamp shade that has a wire top and headquarter because you have to rip the shade part off of it and use the wire top and bottom for your frame.
Small Gauge Wire - I against copper, but any metal wire should work.
Polycrylic Shed - used the glossy finish, but you could use a satin carry out as well.
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This is a fabric lamp shade that we are not using at the moment. Was just worrying the macro on the D3 and i loved the result.
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I took a assort of "fooling around" shots from a hotel office and arranged them using Paint.net.
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Not to the nth degree satisfied with this picture but had to take one today and that's all I had time to do. I did like the dimension and consistency though.