Since we had this wonderful time change over the weekend (I'm still not adjusted), I thought I'd save my wreath for another day and instead show you my clock. My mother gave it to me because she said "it just never worked." Well. I can fix that! I apologize because I'm horrible about taking "before" pictures. I don't know why that is.
I disassembled the clock. Painted the frame with "vanilla" and wiped it back off. kind of. Then I decided it needed a new clock face. I didn't like the old one-it resembled a very old weathered (poorly weathered) clock. So I went and got some scrapbook paper and cut it to fit.
ModPodge is my best friend. We like doing crafts together. I was going to use the old hands, but I ran into a problem! They didn't fit the new clock mechanism. So I tried a few things and ended up fashioning the old hands to the new hands so they would fit-using some E6000 (why didn't anyone tell me about this stuff before??).
So while the hands dried (I actually let them dry overnight), I decided I'd work on my numbers. Every good clock needs numbers right? I had picked out this pretty cardstock, and wanted to cut them out, but couldn't find a pattern etc-so I printed some off my computer and used my x-acto knife.
After I cut out all of the numbers, I then placed them around the clock to make sure I had done this right-
After I decided I hadn't made a huge mistake, I used modpodge and placed all the numbers down.
I highly recommend placing all the numbers BEFORE gluing ANYTHING. Once everything had dried (this morning) I added my hands, set the time, and put everything back together.
I think the clock parts were $5 and the paper was .50 or something, and I had everything else on hand. I'm going to work on the frame a little bit more and maybe tone down the white a bit...and paint the hands brown to match the numbers.
-Jess
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