Restoration Hardware inspired Clock Knock-Off

I was gonna refrain from entering a project for a link party at East Coast Creative where a Creating With The Stars contest is going on for the next four weeks.  I just didn't have a new idea.

For the main contest Bloggers have been paired with Super Bloggers and each week they compete/create in a pre-determined category and the rest of us folks can vote for our favorite till there is one blogger left that wins it all.

There is also a link party of the same theme that anyone can link a project up to.

But I had to create something, I couldn't resist....... the theme this week is my fav - knock offs.   All the people of the land know I love a knock off challenge, so before the clock struck noon I was plotting.

The Mark
(The original photo has been removed, so I don't breech any copyright laws, but lets just say mine looks exactly like it)

At 11:26 on Sunday I told my old clock that the time had come.

Or maybe I told it that it's time was up?

Had run out?

Whichever....the old clock was getting a makeover because of the one I saw on line at Restoration Hardware - sale price $205.

Waiting for wax to dry

I said to the Brawn of the operation,  "hey sweet honey bun, handsome hunk of man, talented beyond belief fella..... you busy?"

It didn't really happen like that, I was in a hurry and buttering someone up takes time.

I did say, "BRAWN..... would you go to the garage and cut some wood for me?".  He said sure, so I showed him the RH picture and our old clock laying on the counter, and said "cut me a piece of wood to fit around this old clock then".

And do it now thank you very much.  (Because I waited till the last minute).

Had I not waited till the last minute with the decision to link a knock off, the top contender was this Restoration Hardware wood and metal thing RH calls a coat tree.

That rolling coat tree costs over a thousand smackaroos.  I was gonna knock it off for free with stuff I already had in the garage, even though I didn't need one. 

But that's not happening.  The clock was ticking, it was Sunday already.

And I had a few distractions.......

I blinked and WWF Smackdown had broken out.

All the cushions were pulled off the couch, covered with blankets, and being used as an elevated wrestling mat.  Elsewhere, someone was in a headlock and someone was in tears.

Between stealing moments to create a clock knock off,  I made homemade pizza, had a 5 kid movie night from ages 3 to 23 and watched Disney's Frozen.

But I made time to finish my project.

I turned our ticking time bomb into a wood framed fool-the-eye-metal time machine!

And. I. Love. It.

Here is what we did:

1. Cut the form from MDF, using our handy dandy technologically advanced measuring device..... an old pot lid.

2. Epoxy old dusty water tubing around the inside edge for a raised look and also to create a spot where the metal hardware mesh/cloth could be sandwiched between to hide the staples. This area had to be higher for the clock hands to clear the mesh and move freely.

 (Water tubing????  Yes, because that's what I found in the garage to make a circle).

Flexible plastic water tube.  Also known as clock parts.

3. Put screws in for the little metal divit thing-a-ma-bobs.

4. Give the whole thing a base coat of brown Rustoleum spray paint.

5. Sit down and start working magic with craft paint in copper metallic and regular black and brown so that eventually the wood frame looks like it's made of metal just like the original.

6.  Give it a light coat of Annie Sloan clear wax, and a dab here and there of AS dark wax - then buff just enough for a faded metal sheen.

8.  Link up at East Coast Creative then hit the hay before the clock strikes midnight and my old clock turns back into it's boring old self.

 I love it so much, that time is standing still.
Or maybe that's because I forgot to put the battery back in?

Tick Tock Linking a Clock:
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