Crafting gone awry

"What," you may be asking, "in the hell is that thing?" If I hadn't photographed it atop a lamp, it's doubtful you'd be able to identify it as a lampshade, as it currently is a hot mess of fake peonies from Wal-Mart and hot glue gun strings. This, my friends, is When Crafting Goes Horribly Wrong. I have seen this idea before in magazines and such and I had this old lampshade I don't particularly like, and I found these silk peonies at Wal-Mart when I was shopping for a Mother's Day craft for my Cub Scouts. I'm really not sure where things took such a turn for the worse, but all I can tell you is that in my head, this was way, WAY cuter.

The problem now is that I could only get enough flowers to fill about half the lampshade, so I'm left with two choices: 1) go spend another $12 on fake flowers and finish out the ugly thing, so at least when I give it to Goodwill it's finished or 2) just give it to Goodwill as is and cut my losses. I'm leaning towards #2. At one point I was thinking maybe some beaded fringe along the bottom could save it, but I think it's even beyond that. You win some, you make some really ugly. Dang.