{"id":898,"date":"2011-01-30T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-10-21T04:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:56:47","slug":"clockys-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/clockys-transformation.html","title":{"rendered":"clocky&#8217;s transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t Pee Wee have a friend in the Playhouse named Clocky?  Well, meet <i>my<\/i> Clocky.  I think we got this clock as a wedding gift, so he&#8217;s lived in our house for 5.25 years!  I&#8217;ve always liked this little guy.  But since day 1, I&#8217;ve wanted to paint him.  He&#8217;s cute, but his shabby chic finish doesn&#8217;t really go with our aesthetic.  I always thought he&#8217;d look great in a funky bright color.  So why wait 5.25 years to paint him?  Good question!!  I have no idea, other than being gun-shy and\/or lazy!<\/p>\n<p>But I decided he MUST have a makeover if he was going to live in our newly remodeled, newly redecorated house.  Before he underwent his makeover I had to cover his face.  He didn&#8217;t come apart (his back is stapled on) so I had to carefully slide a piece of paper over his face to protect it.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/Blog%20Stuff\/clockyBEFORE.jpg><\/center><br \/>\n<i>(I forgot to take a picture of him before I covered his face.  Sorry!)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I picked up a little bottle of acrylic craft paint in a glossy finish (I was going for a lacquered look) at JoAnn&#8217;s for somewhere around $1.25, a spongey craft brush, and went to town!  I wasn&#8217;t expecting it to take so many coats to cover it! I painted in between working and other projects so the coats were spread out over two days.  I ended up having to do 6 coats and used my entire little bottle of paint.<\/p>\n<p>But I have to say I&#8217;m in love with the new and improved Clocky.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=http:\/\/i70.photobucket.com\/albums\/i104\/designerbrittney\/Blog%20Stuff\/clockyAFTER.jpg><\/center><\/p>\n<p>New Clocky will live on our new mantle.  I have a few more things to do to finish decorating the mantle, but once its done I&#8217;ll show everyone.  But now you know one color that&#8217;s in our living room\/dining room area.  YELLOW.  My second favorite color after pink.  There are definitely yellow punches going into this room &#038; I&#8217;m loving it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your Sunday everyone!! See ya later.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/brittishdesigns.com\/miscimages\/bloggersignature.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didn&#8217;t Pee Wee have a friend in the Playhouse named Clocky? Well, meet my Clocky. I think we got this clock as a wedding gift, so he&#8217;s lived in our house for 5.25 years! I&#8217;ve always liked this little guy. But since day 1, I&#8217;ve wanted to paint him. He&#8217;s cute, but his shabby chic &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/clockys-transformation.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">clocky&#8217;s transformation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brittishdesigns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}