Pink Trash

So...I had this lamp shade from IKEA that did not fit any lamps in my house. I loved the color and shape so I just kept it in my "I will do something with that later" pile. I also had this random piece of wood that I had been practicing a painting technique on. After recently rearranging my studio a little and the only room for my trash can was on the other side of the room...I knew I needed to fix that problem. I combined all three to make my "pink trash" can. I ripped out the guts of the lampshade, turned it over and glued it to the wood base. I wanted to cover the seam, so I added a cute pink ribbon around the base to hide the glue. I then was left with this ribbon seam b/c I had not planned it out properly. I grabbed a bright green pipe cleaner and made it into a little pipe cleaner rosette and glued it on. My partner thinks it looks like a Caterpillar that has crawled up to sleep. Go figure... I finally decided it needed something on it, so I came up with the cute play on words of "pink trash". I can now put trash in my desktop trashcan and dump it into the larger trashcan when it gets full.