Blinded with Ingenuity

Today I started my day by shortening the new bamboo blind on the front door. First, I hung the blind on the door backwards so that I could visualize where I wanted the blind to hang when shortened.

The shade came at a length of 72", but I only need about 47". The white line you see here is ideally where I'd like the shade to hang to when finished.

Then I shortened up the cord to the length I wanted. 

This is part of the shade's elevation system found on the backside of the shade.

After that, I took my bottle of Elmer's glue and glued two rows. This was done to keep the strings from unraveling when the bottom of the shade is cut. Once the glue was nice and tacky, I trimmed the blind below the glue line and folded the loose strings up into the tacky glue. 

Finally, I took my hot glue gun and folded and glued the bottom of the shade about an inch, and... VOILA! A shortened shade!

Again, my faithful companion is unimpressed with my skills...