Trash to Treasure Clock Tutorial

This is the finished piece on display at the French Flea in Anoka, MN.

This is the clock in its former life.

This is the dangerous condition that I purchased in.  A fire hazard for sure.

Wonderful brass base as well as a brass top needed the screws removed and than I set these pieces aside and kept them as is.

This is the top brass piece shown removed.

There were 2 screws holding the mechanism inside the wood case.  Once I removed those with a screw driver the clock was in pieces.

I chose to use the glass clock case front to act as a cover for a vintage image, and have the rest of the pieces set aside for another project someday.

Since it was still Fall when I painted this piece, it was easy to use a spray paint in my choice of color (white) to give the wood case a good thorough coating.  After it was dry, I sanded it to distress it.

This was the glass case cover.  I don't have photos of this part, but I basically chose an image that was free to use online, saved it and printed it on my home computer.  I then drew the circle around the image of what I wanted to encase in the clock by using the glass lense as a pattern.  Cut out your image carefully.  I used a salvaged piece of tagboard or actually the back of a notebook to give it strength and glued it to that, which then set into the surrounding case.  I glued it in and than used glue to glue the front to the case.

I added a gorgeous piece of vintage black diamond rhinestone jewelry to bling it up a bit, and coordinated the rhinestone color with the image tones.  It's all in the details.

The finished project.  There are more detailed directions as well as photos on my blog at:  mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com