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1. Acquisition an inflatable ball, such as a bank ball, a little abate than you appetite the lampshade to be.
2. Pour a 10-ounce canteen of ability cement into a bowl. I acclimated Mod Podge, but any cast that dries with a clear, matte accomplishment will work.
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3. Dilute with a division cup of water.
4. Cut braid into 4-foot lengths and agitate them about in the cement until they are absolutely coated. I acclimated hemp and fluorescent-yellow architect braid from Home Depot.
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5. Wrap the braid about the aggrandized ball, overlapping the altered strands. Leave a 3-inch-diameter aperture over the aggrandizement valve of the ball. You'll use that to cull the brawl out back the cement is dry. Also, that's area you'll adhere your lightbulb.
6. Let dry overnight.
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7. Deflate the brawl and abolish it from the lampshade. You'll accept to do a bit of affable prying to abstract it from the alert strings.
8. Affix the lampshade to a constituent or hard-wired chaplet ablaze fixture, which you can acquisition online or at Ikea. I cut a baby aperture in a yogurt alembic lid to append my cord brawl about a lightbulb, but you ability acquisition a added affected way to do this application wire or an aluminum sheet.
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This adventure appears in the September 2015 affair of Popular Mechanics.
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