Upcycling: Make a Clock

I I'm Danny CO author of the book up cycling and today I'm gonna show you had a up cycle or re use. Your beach fine to me finding your summer travels now I went to my local Michael Stewart the unfinished wood section. At Allen looks like an office organizer you might be familiar went. And abuses for the base my clock so I'll take the lid off and uses for something else later and this'll be the frame that our clock actually lives that. Now on the front I wanna make him work BT's you could use the beach sand you find out there you're summer vacation. Or Michael's they have is wonderful different colored accidentally that's wonderful jewelry store. -- here or CD greens even vibrant purple cloths and gemstone colors and values these two actually glitter the front of the box. And he's my trusty -- odds to cover the fronts the box and a little bit goes a long way just like to drizzle it's. And then I'll use a foam brush and discover the whole thing in a very even and consistent way. Arrives. And it's pretty. The next issue is just like working with glitter we're gonna take this man and you're just gonna cover the hole. And you could mix of different colors you could use actual beach Santa -- early nice neutral days. You Pete's world so when that the beautiful awesome purples and -- Greenspan together create stripes I mean really this is something. That there's no wrong way of doing its but the key thing here makes you do it right is to really saturated it's. With this and as much as possible so that as resurface. This completely covered justly that now you're looking at this -- a lot of stance we're gonna knock off access. -- left with is like this nice memory. Subtle. BC -- cover on the front snout. What else you need for o'clock -- have to know what time so instead of using the different numbers and often come o'clock it. We're gonna use rocks and these are pebbles that. You can find on your watch that it would it to -- and the beach you can even find some of them and Michael's -- And I find it easy thing to do is to serve it well 36. And nine and build from there. And then you could do something where it's just all of the same types of rocks for consistency all the way around just like this all our. That's fine estimates amounts to take different colored smaller buttons. To do one right here. This section and and that's -- read one right here and then -- and it would -- have a little bit more variety now if you don't have proxies cells and also a beautiful or imagine since he got us that recently it's so ethereal and might -- That these are really easy -- just use your trusty glue guns to put ample amount on the back of the rock. Just like this. And while it's still shots you can attach it securely -- the front of your clock. Political completely to the whole clock. And then you what it takes a thing called the clock yet and you find is that the -- looks just like this. It's pretty basic and really easy to use really this can make anything into a beautiful clock. On the beauty -- that we have right here just gonna show you what I've done is they've drilled a hole right in the middle. You insert this the back of the mechanism on the back and then when the little attach it to the front come through you test your minute your second and -- our hands. Attach a double -- battery you've got yourself a great families summertime beach memory clock.