I was excited when I found this vintage alarm clock in storage, and it still works despite the fact that it is at least from the 1970's! I loved the brass look but then again I had to ask myself if it would go with anything I have in my house....and it didn't... It took me a while to decide what color to paint it and I ended up going with Aquamarine and used my left over Valspar Antiquing Glaze, of course. One day when I can afford new paint colors I won't keep painting things blue ;) So here is the before... Here is the paint I used.... Here are the paint brushes I used....
Basically I cleaned the clock, added 2 coats of primer, let dry, then added about 2 coats of aquamarine, then once I let all of that dry I added my antiquing glaze. Here is a better view of the glaze. Now it's done!
The look of a $20- $50 working alarm clock for the price of basically nothing since the clock was free and I used all left over materials from my other projects!
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First of all, I love when I find free stuff that people just throw away! My dad from time to time helps clean out houses and he sometimes forgets to look in every box before he throws it in a garbage pile, so every so often I go through that garbage and that is how I came across my owl salt and pepper shakers and now these other owls! For the longest time I have had my eye on some bookends and the owl ones always popped out to me. A little side note, I'm pretty sure my husband and I only have about 10 books (sad I know). They have a hard time standing up on their own and the owl bookends have always popped out to me when I've looked online, though I never could justify paying for them. So, as fate would have it, my patience paid off, and I found these! I liked how much detail they had, unfortunately, they did not match my decor. So I cleaned them off since they have been outside in a box for who knows how long, repaired part of the holly leaf that broke off with super glue, and got my primer and paint ready. Below are the products I used.
I did enough coats with the primer to where I could not see any of the colored paint anymore. I let that dry and then touched up some of the rough parts then used the white gloss spray paint until I got the glossy finish I wanted. This whole project only took me a day to do! *Since these owls are fine china and therefore pretty light, I may go back and fill them with some sand to make them heavier and seal the holes, but for now they seem to hold the weight just fine!
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