Child's Lamp Shade: Make Holes for Fasteners

Video Transcript

"Now we've measured four even points on the side going along the width of our plastic sheet, it's time to make the holes so we can go ahead and line it up to the opposite side and put our fasteners in. Now to make the hole, we want to get it close to the end and we don't want to rip the end, because we want to make sure that the fastener has enough room to go in and doesn't tear the end of the plastic sheet. So I'm using a very thin and very sharp wooden skewer stick, and it works really nice for the thickness of my plastic that I'm using, makes a nice clean hole, and even if it goes all the way in I'm not worried because it's a very thin stick and it's not going to make too much of a tear into the plastic, I don't have to worry about it ripping through to the end. So I'm left with a nice small hole, just big enough that I can put the fasteners in. And once I have that hole, I fold it over, and now, I line up the holes on the other side where I want to put my fasteners. Now I line it up so that the fold does not intersect on any of the images, and that's why I mentioned when we're making the images to occasionally fold it just to see where your images are lying so when you do put it together, you fasten the ends together, you're not cutting off any of the images. So I go ahead and line it up, and inside the hole I can make a little mark which will go through to the opposite side, and now I can see where I need to put my holes on the opposite side to put the metal fastener through both ends. So once my marks are made, I go ahead and take my wooden skewer again, or any sharp object, and poke the hole through the mark that I made. And now I have two holes on each end of the plastic lampshade, so now it's easy for me just to line it up and put the metal fasteners in and separate them and they'll hold really nice. And the gold will be a nice clean look to it, or will add a little bit of a feature with the gold studs going down the lampshade. So now I've shown you how to make the holes in the markings, and line it up so it's ready to put the gold fasteners inside."