Thrifted Snowman Lamp Flip

You will never look at a thrift store lamp the same again after you see how I flipped this ordinary lamp into adorable Christmas and winter decor. This Thrifted Snowman Lamp will put Frosty to shame!

Turn and ordinary thrift store small lamp into adorable and budget friendly Christmas and Winter decor by painting it to look like a snowman. With the lampshade being the "top hat" with a cute red, black, and white bow and a jingle bell, and the lamp body painted like a snowman face.

Every year, for the past 3 years, I have done a Countdown to Craftmas where I go live on Facebook from 12/1-24 for 24 days of Christmas Crafty Inspo.

And this Thrifted Snowman Lamp is by FAR my fave from 2023!

For as adorable as this Snowman Lamp flip is, it was actually pretty easy to make!

Don’t let that face intimidate you, I CANNOT paint, but I show you how to do it step by step in this blog.

Thrifted snowman painted lamp next to a tall santa decor.

And can we talk about that bow!? I normally prefer fabric bows, but for this particular project a ribbon bow was in order. And of course it came out just PERF thanks to my Bowdabra!

Huge black red and white bow on the thrifted lampshade.

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Supplies Needed to Make a Thrifted Snowman Lamp

How to Turn a Thrifted Lamp into a Snowman

I made over this Thrifted Snowman Lamp on video. So you can WATCH the tutorial by clicking below.

Amanda holding the completed craft on a facebook live thumbnail.

Watch the video HERE

First things first, I took the lamp shade off to work on the “face” and “body”.

Here is the surface that we’re working with. I decided I would first paint the entire bottom part of the lamp all white with Waverly plaster chalk paint. A good two coats did it.

The bottom portion of the thrifted lamp.

Now for the face, it’s best to watch the replay to see exactly how I painted it, but I will show you the steps the best I can here. Pardon the pictures, they are screenshots from my live video, but it’s better than nothin’!

First, with a pencil I drew 2 ovals, kind of wonky, leaning in towards each other like you see here.

Step one of the snowman face: Draw two ovals with pencil.

I then outlined the pencil with black Sharpie and painted them in with black paint.

I used a fine tip sharpie to draw 3 wispy eyelashes on the outer bottom eyes, and painted a small white line on the right sides of each eye.

I dry brushed some pink paint to make the rosy cheeks.

Dry brushed pink paint on the snowman face to make rosy cheeks.

Then painted on the orange carrot nose.

The snowman face with everything but the mouth painted on.

And finally, I drew on the squiggly wonky smile with the fine tip black Sharpie again.

Here is the face alllllll done! Not perfect, but done. And cute.

For the trim around the “top hat” lampshade, I used this buffalo check ruffle trim that was sent to me in a PR box by the company. It’s “Place and Time” brand and can be found at Joanns Fabric in stores and online. I did find some on Amazon, but it’s red instead of black (would still be cute!).

Black and white buffalo check ruffled trim on the spool.

I just hot glued it all around the bottom rim of the lampshade.

Buffalo check ruffled trim being glued by Amanda to the bottom rim of the lampshade.

Here’s how it looks once it’s on there. Cute, right!?

Buffalo check ruffled trim glued to the bottom rim of the lampshade.

I also glued some thinner buffalo check ribbon around the top of the shade.

Thin buffalo check ribbon glued to the top rim of the lampshade.

Time for the star of the show..the BOW! Thanks to my Bowdabra, this was super easy, and the first time I ever used ribbon instead of fabric with it.

Of course I had to add some greenery and berries along with a rusty bell.

A huge black red and white bow with a rusty bell and greenery and red berries.

Like I said….my FAVE from the 2023 Countdown to Craftmas!

I mean c’mon, how darn cute is this Thrifted Snowman Lamp!?

Are you even a crafter if you aren’t RUNNING out to the thrift store to get a lamp right now?

Are you going to flip a Thrifted Lamp into a Snowman for Winter or Christmas this year? If you do, I’d love to see it! Pop on over to our free Craftspiration Facebook group, and join in on the fun by posting a pic of your Tiered Trays, DIY’s and crafts. I just love to see all your creative and crafty creations.

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