It’s time to change it up–spray paint it
Handsome Dude and I haven’t had a clock in our family room downstairs for a really, really long time and it’s super hard to know what time it is. Especially because our house doesn’t have any slides or elevators to help us get places faster and our iPhones and iPads and watches are in another room and we don’t have any kids around to get them for us and the nearest clock is at the top of the stairs and wedon’t want to leave the shmumfy comfort of couch blankets and perfectly placed pillows to walk approximately five feet to the bottom of the stairs to look up. ~grin~ It’s time to change it up, wouldn’t you say?
Seriously it has been really difficult.
So hard.
First World problems.
We’re mostly just lazy.
And we still needed a clock.
Here’s what I found at Hobby Lobby:
[By-the-way did you know there’s a free app for Hobby Lobby? A coupon that isn’t on your kitchen counter whilst you are standing in line–because it’s in your hand. Buh-BoOm.]
Excellent 40% off deal.
I liked the shape–and the fact that it would fit on the bookshelf we have–but I didn’t like the color.
[The bookshelf is black. The clock (save for the face) would disappear the moment it was placed on the shelf.]
I brought it home and immediately (because this is the year for finishing projects and not storing them) covered the face and the back with pieces of newspaper cut to fit. You don’t want to spray the clock mechanism.
You shouldn’t want to spray the clock mechanism.
Okay–don’t spray the clock mechanism.
I primed the clock with this :
We already had it in the garage. Bonus.
“Apply a second coat or Painter’s Touch topcoat within 1 hour or after 24 hours.”
Those are the real and true instructions on the back of the can.
The part about “within the 1 hour” is fabulous.
[I’m not a professional painter–I’m an impatient one. If a brand works, I’ll use it again. If it doesn’t–well–boo and don’t use again. Won’t. Oh, and I add a petulant stomp of my foot for emphasis.]
We had a partial can of this color in the garage so I used it.
[I’m apparently a perfectly practical painter.]
I covered the clock with two coats of paint just because of all the nooks and crannies.
The smidge bit of paint that leaked around the newspaper cover was easily (carefully) scraped off of the glass with a razor.
It’s dreamy.
Purchased and painted in the same day.
It’s about time.
~grin~
what do you think?