handmade clock

Few days ago me and Ann, we made a clock. It wasn't very difficult because Ann had bought mechanism and other parts earlier. We had to only:
- cut out rectangular shape out of a piece of plywood
- do it straight along the line
- not to cut ourselves
- paint the wood
- put in the mechanism
- get the battery :)

Ann found some plywood in her storage room so we had some free meterials.




















At first I had some problems with keeping the line straight, but evetually I learned how to use a jigsaw. We thought that the worst part was over when I had finished cutting, but we were wrong :) Painting took a lot of time to get the effect which was Ann's aim. We had only 3 basic colours of paint, plus white one so we had to recall how to mix them to get for example beige.. That was fun :P





















After painting I drilled a hole in the center of this piece of wood. It turned out that we should have a thinner plywood for this clock mechanism to screw it onto the wood (you have to put a piece of mechanism into this hole and screw a cap and the hands on the other side but for us this part was to short). Eventually we glued everything together and added the hands.

This is our clock:

It will hang over Ann&Luke's TV :)

GREAT TUTORIAL

Recently on threadbanger I found great tutorial about "how to resize your t-shirt". You can see it here. Watching it I resized one of my newest tees which I had bought in Iceland. I didn't make the braid effect but even without it my old-new fitted t-shirt looks amazing.

It was first time I sew the sleeves (I was always to scared to do it :)) and now I know it isn't so difficult. Try it yourself! :)