Why not make your next diy project an upcycle of a thrifted find?
Buying secondhand items is an easy and fun way to do our part to help the earth. As a parent, I have often wondered why we all buy the same books and plastic toys when we could just as easily pass them on or buy them at a thrift store. With Earth Day coming up this Friday, it's a good time to think about how we can reduce this waste. In fact, we throw away more than 81 pounds of clothing and textiles per person, per year. It's not news to any of us I'm sure that we North Americans can be incredibly wasteful. Read on for the other incredible projects. The bonus fun is that there are 11 other bloggers participating in #12monthsofdiy, so we get to see loads o' thrifty diys today. I enjoyed going to Value Village to find a few treasures to overhaul.
Y'all know I love a thrifty find! Combine that thrifty find with a diy project and we have a whole lot of fun on our hands. Next step is to apply a few layers of matt acrylic varnish to protect the paintwork.įinally here is a side by side view of the repainted Borghese bookend on the left and the original source bookend on the right.I think this is my favourite #12monthsofdiy project yet. The composite picture above shows the Borghese bookends at various stages. I painted in layers adding streaks of darker and lighter color damping down with a paper towel to soften the effect and using a clean wet brush to feather it in places instead of splashing on water as was seen on the video. I experimented with a mix of Cadmium red, Burnt Umber and Yellow Ochre tinted with white for the base following the Youtube video for guidance. In retrospect I would have done a test piece first but I just went ahead knowing I could wipe it off at any point or just paint extra layers on top.
#OWL BOOKENDS HOW TO#
I found a video on Youtube which gave me an idea of how to proceed. Up to this point the work has been straightforward but the unsightly green speckled base needs a faux marble paint over which is something I have never done before. Here we see the source bookend in the center with the Borghese pair on either side. I had no black paint so I mixed some raw umber with ultramarine to create a vintage looking black. The final touch was black for the pupils. The color was a good match straight from the tube so no color mixing was needed. I used Windsor & Newton Galleria acrylic paints, Yellow Ochre, Raw Umber and Phthalo Green for the Owl. First I painted the eyes in Yellow Ochre and then two coats of Raw Umber for the rest of the bird with extra touches to darken the forehead area and top of the head and back as needed to match the owl on the right.įor the book it took two layers of green and then a watered down layer of raw umber on top of that to tone down the color of the green and to darken the gold pages. The Borghese bookend appears to be a resin copy of the original design on the right which is a cold painted metal/bronze owl on a marble base. The picture above shows a Borghese bookend on the left and on the right a bookend like the one in Ricardo’s living room on the show which I will refer to as a source to replicate the paintwork and then attempt to apply a marble effect on the base. Here is my attempt at repainting a pair of Borghese owl bookends to resemble the owl bookends seen on the I Love Lucy show.
#OWL BOOKENDS TV#
I also spotted this TV lamp with plume design similar to one seen on the I Love Lucy set It was recently sold on eBay however this was the first time I have seen one with a maker mark by Stewart B McCulloch who also made the pair of asian man and woman mantel statues ashtray Borghese book ends framed prints maurice utrillo owl book ends owl bookends Stewart B McCulloch tv lamp wall plates The above items are currently on eBay at the time of writing. This ashtray matches one on I Love LucyĪ similar small ashtray was later seen on a small side table next to an armchair to the left of the Hollywood apartment set.Īlso on offer is a pair of owl bookends like the bookends I repainted to match the pair on I Love lucy in a previous project: Owl Bookends Seen on eBay
There were a pair of these each side of three larger ones. Next is a hard to find small Gouda ashtray that matched one used as a small wall plate in the I Love Lucy kitchen. This one for sale has some damage so read the sellers description for details. Utrillo print as seen on I Love Lucy Utrillo print on I Love LucyĬurrently on eBay is this vintage Maurice Utrillo print matching the well-known framed picture in the living room of the I Love Lucy set.
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