Thought for the week
I read these words today and pondered my own life the past 18 months with my mums cancer and my sudden return to New Zealand, and realised how very true they are.
If it were not for hopes,
the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
Cheap Trophies DIY
I love the look of the vintage loving cup trophies. Most of the old ones are silver plate and can be quite expensive. Here is my solution. I found some newer trophies at thrift stores. Most are cheap metal and I was able to buy them for a few dollars each. One was a bowler's trophy and I had to dismantle it and take the six bowlers off the top! The small trophy in the front is silver plate. The one on left was brass plated and the last one is some type of cheap metal Here is the secret: You can find Kryon Looking Glass paint at Hobby Lobby and a number of sites on-line. I have painted over painted over brass plated and silver colored trophies and they have all done well. The secret with this paint is very light sprays because it drips bad. The trophy below in the middle I experimented with adding a little watered down black paint to disquise the new look. I used Looking Glass on all of these except the small one. The different me...
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