Gold and Gems

This year for Christmas Henry and I gave his mum a clock becasue she needed a new one. We thought she would like a bit of an opulant clock so we searched on ebay and found a good rococo gold one.  When it arrived I re painted it a nice gold as I thought the original gold colour wasn't that nice. Also it had spots all over it to make it look vintage or whatever. But I didn't think the spots looked very good. Why would you put spots all over a lovely gold clock?! 

So yes it got a new coat of gold paint. Then Henry varnished it and then I decorated it with gems! We were both very pleased with it. it is very sparkly. I think it is beautiful and I want one for my own future house now!

Theses photos don't really do it justice. It was a bit of a hard thing to photograph. 

Celestine was extremely jealous of the clock. It is exactly the sort of clock she would like for herself in miniature.  To appease her I made her a gold dress with gems on it.

Here's what the clock looked like before:

and after...

 I much prefer it after- I wish you could just see how sparkly it is in real life!

Celestine was very sad to see it go. But she'll at least get to see it again next time we visit Henry's mum!