The Magic Bag... Before and Afters - 07-13-2010

Sitting around doing nothing makes a creative girl cranky, so I decided it was time to get the magic bag out...

hmmm, sandpaper, scraper that will work....

Mr. D. was starting to eyeball this for firewood, so I decided it better start looking a little prettier before it met its demise.

Here is the underneath that Rose was talking about...

After sanding and scraping about 50 years of crud off of this little guy it is starting to look like it has possibilities...

Much better, I like pieces to tell their own stories, but crud is plain ole dirt folks...

  

This was the big conversation piece at the park, amazing how interested people become when you pull out a piece to start working on... we all decided that this had a history, but for what?... look at those holes on the top, something was mounted to this and look at all those paint splatters, was it possibly a vice... any ideas?

I added this to the magic bag the other day... let’s see if it is worth the $13.50 I paid for it... no bargain there, but I have heard so much about this, I had to give it a try...

Oh so much nicer now... I left some of the paint spatters on it purposely... afterall that was the story it is trying to tell... at least it is more presentable and the wood had a nice drink so it will be happier now...

Well I hope you enjoyed this post... I know it was a long time coming... it only took me about 10 hours with an intermitent signal to get this on here...

I am sure you remember this pump and spade... look at the crud patina on that pump...

I put the same wax on it and rubbed it back off... although it is dark brown wax it brought the red right back to life...

Ice tongs... before

After rubbed with wax...

I just saw this saying and I think it says alot about what we all do, don't you think?

The happiest of people don't necessarily

have the best of everything;

They just make the most of everything they have.

Hugs,