Check 'em out - compare prices from eBay to www.maidenshade.com and you'll see you're getting a FABULOUS deal here.  Priced to sell before the holidays, you'll be sure to get your little light in time especially if you use the "Buy it Now" feature on the Valentine's Day items!

Heck with Easter Bonnets - Here comes Peter Cotton Tail!

In soft but brilliant hues comes a medium sized lamp that will knock your Easter-Bunny socks off! The shade is trimmed out in a deep yellow beaded fringe and adorned with braided pink gimp that makes the 3 panels pop. Bring back or start sweet memories of Easter Egg Hunts and dreams of Peter Cotton Tail hopping down the bunny trail - give the gift of light to some bunny YOU love!

Colors: Pink, Green, Yellow, Cream, White

From my NEW Homepage:

Welcome to MaidenShade! MaidenShade is artistically handcrafted lamps, nightlights, and lampshades, featuring unique designer fabrics and high-end trims. Choices range from everyday, holiday, and nursery themed lamps, nightlights, and lampshades, to special requests including coordinating items like lightswitch covers, tissue box covers, waste baskets, and curtains - possibilities abound. At MaidenShade you'll find sweet, funny, neutral, elegant, and fabulous lights for your home or office.

Talk about a unique gift idea, these are perfect, plus they have the added benefit of coming in themes so you can match up light to recipient perfectly.

Don't see the needed theme? JUST ASK! I have lots of fabric, too much to make these things quick enough. If I don't have it, I'll get it, just for your needs. Come on, "Give the Gift of Light" this year, it's the popular choice for Christmas, Everyday, Nursery/Baby Showers, Hanukkah (yes, I carry Jewish themed nightlights and lamps too!)  Come and have a look at:

 www.MaidenShade.com

Proudly made in the USA by Jennifer Hopkins

LampShades 'R ME --

I've got too many to list!  Ebay is fabulous, but I need a longer reach, a more focused outlet.  Soooo, I'm working on my very own web-store which will feature all of my available shades.

Keep your eyes peeled (OWIE!) for www.MaidenShade.com, a complete-with-credit card or PayPal, "buy it now", secure transaction, selling establishment. 

You'll have 2 places to buy my beauties, Ebay through my Auctiva site, and my very own, MaidenShade store!  Whoooo Hoooo!

More to follow!

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The posting has begun, 21 in 2 days --

and you know what? 

That's only a FRACTION of the inventory....

WOW!

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Keep your eyes open and your buying finger on the button.  Why???  They are FABULOUS first of all.  Absolutely beautiful, unique creations.  Need more reasons?

Birthdays

Anniversaries

Christmas

Hanukkah Chanukah Hanuka

Kwanzaa

Halloween

Autumn Thanksgiving Fall

Vacations

Happy Hour

4 o'Clock Clubs

Mahjongg

Baby Nursery Showers

Wedding

New Home

Pet Sitter

Thank You

Redecorating

2nd Home

Vacations

Congratulations

I'm so Sorry's

ALL GREAT REASONS TO COME TO MAIDENSHADE!!!

Give the gift of light

Ready for you to buy for gifts or to enjoy for yourself, here come the latest offerings from MaidenShade! 

The Shape of Things to Come:

 Gift, Idea, Halloween, Christmas, Mahjong, golf, course, base, lamp, shade, nightlight, presents, holiday, tropical, picture frame, thank you, welcome, pet sitter

This weekend marks the beginning for me -- All of my new forms are FINALLY in, all of the fabrics are purchased, the trims are screaming at me from inside their bins and cupboards "USE ME, USE ME, USE ME!!!" Okay, I will!

I will be creating de-lights (bad pun or good tag line, YOU decide, LOL) beyond your expectations!  Remember, I told you that they were coming.

Some of these lamps have such adorable names, it's worth buying the shades just because of that.  Coming soon are:

From the Holiday Line:

• Merry Scotty Toss (Christmas) darling holiday doggies
• Meow-leleuia (Christmas) brilliantly colored singing kitties by Laurel Burch
• Scary, Scary Night (Halloween)
• David's Star (Hanukkah) tiny stars on a blue background, so nice!
• Gilded Chanukkah - this was just so pretty, I couldn't resist it
• Tossed Hanukkah - the written words say it all, subtle, classy
• Kwanzaa Huts (or potential tiki bars... who's to know?)
• African Winds - fabulous pattern, organic, earthy and strong

From the Designer Nursery Series:

• Peter Panes - more Beatrix Potter, yummy!
• Sugar n' Spice - teeny tiny gingham in pink and white
• Snaps n' Snails - teeny tiny gingham in either blue or green and white
• Stardust - pale blue satin with silver tossed stars

From the EveryDay Lights Series:

• Calliope - Flying jewel-toned butterflies
• Heliotrope - Gilded butterflies
• Mulligans (Funny Golf Scenes)
• Of Course (Golf Courses written on cream)
• Hooligans (Las Vegas items like dice, cards...)
• Scallywags (Roosters, black white, red, yellow)
• Resistance (black skulls on hot pink)
• Tropical Vacation (Flamingos in hats, sunglasses and playing ukuleles)
• Barrier Reef (brilliant tropical fish)
• Moulin Rouge (naughty, a-hem, ladies)
• Ingenue - Tiffany Lamps
• Solstice - Cream, Burgundy, Green - Petite Gilded Calla Lilies
• Indulgences - Yellow, Green, Pink Flowers
• Strategy (Mah Jongg tiles)
• Amphalula Tree - Celedon, Pink, Blue, Peacocks, Vines, Butterflies - total eye-candy

The baby shades are appearing. Come on, aren't they just the sweetest? What a darling idea for a shower, birth, new nursery -- a designer lampshade!  These make great gifts.

Also posted is the first of the Holiday line, a fun shade for Halloween.

I've made repeat shades for some that have sold via other venues -- one very popular example is Cleopatra.  People love that shade! 

More to come later, keep cool!

What's news? I've got lamp bases -- and the first in a line of nursery shades -- a Beatrix Potter print with Peter Rabbit and his friends.  

Although they aren't yet posted, I've also got the most yummy nightlights ever.

The fabric and trims are arriving daily, I am in HEAVEN.

• The baby prints are making me go "OHHHHHHHHHH!"
• The Christmas ones have me thinking holiday thoughts (presents, gifts, unique ideas...) as I work.
• The Hanukkah ones have me singing songs from Fiddler on the Roof and dancing around like Tevia with my arms up in the air and asking God if it would ruin some big important plan (if I was a wealthy... woman?).
• The Halloweenie ones glow in the dark.
• The tropical, mahjongg, or golf ones... well, they are funny or just cute!
• The trims, oh the trims. I just squeal. Lovely, beautiful, perfect -- it is overwhelming. They match so deliciously with my fabrics. The possibilities abound!

I'd like to mention some fabulous Ebayers (all ladies too) whom I love:

• Linens 'n Laurels
• Zeet Zeet
• Dove Originals
• Busy Quilter

There are more, but that's it for now.  SHOP SHOP SHOP,

Kindest regards, J

It's that time at MaidenShade -- the Summer/Fall catalogs are ready for distribution and look so smart, I've just gotten my display stands from Mathew's Wire (cool stuff there, go look at their Ebay store!), and so now my unsold wares go off to the lucky boutiques around Naples, Florida and even waaay up in Wisconsin and Minnesota too!

During the Ebay selling "down" time, I'll still keep one or two pieces up for auction.  If you've been thinking of buying a shade or two but were holding out for lower prices, please be advised, it's not going to happen.  You should get them here as they are about $10 more in stores than on Ebay!!!  You can always request past designs, just ask.

Remember, these lampshades (or lightshades to some of you:  ) are unique, no one else has anything like this and if you go to Target to compare prices, for example  -- you'll see these are a GREAT deal!  Department store shades cost as much, with 0 originality.  They don't have designer fabrics, high-end trims, in fact nothing to set them apart from all of the others.

Next Blog: Babies, Holidays, and teeny-tiny surprises!

When you think of MaidenShade, think gift ideas for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, birthdays, thank-you's, weddings, baby showers or births, anniversaries, holidays -- seasonal changes, re-decorating, accent pieces, the list is endless! 

Everyone has lamps,

but not everyone has a MaidenShade! ©