I’m focused… Promise!

Jan 3, 2011

While sit­ting here wait­ing for my Dis­tress Crackle Paint — Rock Candy to dry I remem­bered I for­got to show you the bracelet dad and I made using one of my grandfather’s spoons. Well actu­ally it’s really more like the bracelet I pounded flat, stamped poorly, dad bent into shape and fixed my stamp­ing. Poor man, I tell ya we had some laughs or rather I laughed at the looks dad would give me when I would hand it over for him to fix. Dad’s just gotta love those crafty daughter’s that ven­ture out into unknown art forms. We had fun though and it’s a bracelet I will cherish.

All I could think of was the say­ing my grand­fa­ther would say from time to time when you got really focused on the imper­fec­tions of a project… he would say, “It’s good enough for who it’s for.” I of course would just roll my eyes because I feel every­thing has to be per­fect. Darn type A per­son­al­ity. But it did make me chuckle as I was stamp­ing away.

And since I love it when pieces have a story behind them well besides this being my grandfather’s spoon notice the “L” and the three marks to the right of it… those marks are rem­nants of my not so good stamp­ing . I smacked the let­ter and it shifted twice on me always going to the right and let me tell ya it was mak­ing me pretty moody. So on the 3rd whack I smacked it really hard and you guessed it, it shifted again. So I looked at dad with the look of can you fix this on my face (I felt like a lit­tle girl again ask­ing him to push the arm back into my doll that my brother pulled out)… so he smoothed it out as best he could. Then, I had dad stamp it as I was not even going to have that thing shift to the right again. If it had, I would have thrown it out the shop and across the street. I know my limit when it comes to this kinda stuff and three times is it. LOL

After it was all stamped I used a ball peen ham­mer and tapped away all around the edges. I love things to look worn and really like how the edges turned out.

Then I attached some rhine­stones to it using E6000. I find it funny that the quote says, “Never Set­tle 4 Less” and I used rhine­stones and not dia­monds. How ironic.

Okay, looks like the crackle paint is dry so back to book stuff.  Happy Monday!