Remember those clocks from Holloway Car Boot sale in this post? Well we hatched a plan for another ‘we live in rented flat so we can’t paint or wallpaper’ feature wall- this time CLOCKS.
I have always loved clocks – my friend from school’s father was a clock maker and they were all over their house; some ornate and some simple – I was transfixed by them and especially loved the cuckoo clocks.
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| Similar to this one… |
So anyway… Stephen and I aren’t the kind of people who have an idea and wait around for it to happen we make it happen NOW! I think I have already told you that I am incredibly inpatient so I drag Stephen around to make things happen very quickly… he doesn’t mind (I think/hope!) but at least it means we don’t have unfinished jobs all over the place- the garden is frustrating enough in it’s incomplete state! So when the clock wall idea came up we were straight on ebay to find pieces for it.
Combined with our original free ‘tip’ retro mint wall clock (which I LOVE) and the Car Boot finds we are up to 5 clocks and counting.
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| The original and first… |
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| An ebay find – £5 |
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| Combined cost – £12 |
On Sunday we added my favourite piece to the puzzle- a beautiful old Barometer. This was definitely ‘meant to be’ as we were about to drive away from the tip empty handed when I spied an interesting thing in the boot of the car in front- it was obvious it was in the pile of throwaways so I cheekily asked if I could see the item and he happily handed me this:
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| Who could resist?! |
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| OK so it doesn’t work- but who cares?! |
There is still a gap for another small one but I think it’s looking pretty good and apart from the Barometer they all work…
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| We’re considering adding global times with tags… |
We only have a small space for our clock wall but if we had lots…
Clock on!!
Xox Gabticktock
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