Shattered - Someone Find The Glue Quick!
6 Materials
$22
2 Days
Easy
You can imagine my horror when I went out one morning to find the cage with my "kissing Angel" had been tossed about 5 feet and she was broken. Who knows what happened ~ raccoons, a cat fight, ~ a neighbor has an Asian Bengal Rosette he lets run loose. Anything that moves is prey. He can't even pick it up, it's so wild, (but that's another story for another day). The front arbor is a "gateway" to the roof which is part of the critters "under or rather overground railroad".
Anyway I was beside myself.
Could I glue all the pieces back together?
And how was it going to look?
I got my E6000 out and went to town.
Piece by piece I lined them up as best I could,
allowing each piece to dry before adding another.
Sorry, no photos, was so nervous about getting all the pieces to fit,
I forgot to take some.
So it was back together and stable.
But you, of course, could see the cracks.
You probably remember this Angel and Bird Cage
from one of my recent posts.
Then my light bulb went on, it does occasionally ;)
I remember seeing Self Etching Primer by Rus-toleum in the store. It said it could be used on just about anything to make paint stick, even ceramics.
Thought it was worth a try.
Then I saw Rus-toleum American Accents Stone Texture.
I thought what a great way to cover those cracks!
And cover those cracks it did!
Awesomely ♥
It took about 2 days to complete, but I wanted to give each of the coats ample time to dry. She received one coat of each, so I have plenty of both cans left for other projects.
Doesn't she look like real stone?
I wasn't sure where I wanted to put her, except not in the front of the house.
I recently had removed an old bird nest from basket that used have plants in it.
It was wired on a horse collar on the deck.
The nest had been empty for a couple of years, so I felt it was safe that no one was coming back to it.
I placed her on top of a bed of reindeer moss and wired her into the basket so she wouldn't fall out.
She looked kind of plain just sitting there, so I added some Dollar Tree flowers to surround her with color.
One of the wires I used went around her neck.
I had a hard time trying to camouflage it, until I thought of a necklace.
Dug through my stash and found a broken piece of rhinestone bracelet/necklace that was just the right size.
I glued it over the wire ;)
I love the way she turned out.
Maybe an unusual place to have an angel, but she's safe and secure!
And that's the most important thing!
For more photo and info:
http://dragonflytreasure.blogspot.com/2017/06/shattered-someone-find-glue-quick.html
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4 comments
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success!
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I am now headed out to purchase these to fix my Angels, Thank You for helping to save them. I haven't been able to throw them out and glad I didn't! :
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So glad I could help!! :)
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