How To Repair A Ceramic Statue

Take you broken a resin statue and want to repair it?

Nosotros did it and information technology was easy!! You'd never know there was damage.

Check out the quick and piece of cake DIY.

Many years ago, on the way back from a trip out due east, we stopped at a farmstead. At that place are lots of them out there and they're all then sweet, it's incommunicable to skip one.

Fifty-fifty when they're all selling the aforementioned thing. Sunflowers, strawberries, tomatoes and corn.

Oh. And pie.

Lots of pie.

My husband knows the drill. He instinctively pulls over without being asked. I guess that comes from too many years of Wait! Go back!!

Anyway, on that 1 trip, I found a cow. I retrieve that my mom spotted it first.

Kimmie, this would look great in your kitchen.

And she was right. It would. It had that rustic-cottage-farmhouse manner wait...plus I didn't ain a cow and I'd always loved them.

They reminded me of college, when I lived upstate, they were everywhere. I used to accept to stop my car and wait, while the farmers led their herds across the street, from pasture to barn.

I hateful really, is there anything more charming than that?

At $30, she was a footling pricey and my mom wanted to buy her for me, she was always treating me to things - So many sweet memories - but I was a big girl now with a firm and family unit of my own. I figured I could get this ane myself.

And so forth with a bag of apples and some cookies, that cow hopped in the minivan with us.

She was tan and black and pretty large and sat on my pine server for years. The kids loved her, similar a pet.

Hi moo-cow!,they would say, equally they ran her by after school. She was a existent role of the family.

Until. You knew it was coming.

Until one day, for no reason, my plate rack just fell off the wall, crashed into the moo-cow, who hit the floor and smashed into too many pieces to repair.

And trust me. We tried.

I recall my DIY guy was the almost upset. There aren't a lot of things he tin can't ready and this was very disappointing to him.

So much so, that for years, he'due south been looking for another cow, only like it, simply and so far no luck.

Honestly, the just place I've seen a cow fifty-fifty shut is on my friend Brenda's weblog. She has i that's like, but smaller.

Well, fast forwards to December. We were in HomeGoods, looking around and my husband constitute this darling resin statue.

Non even remotely the same cow, as this one had friends, simply my husband was very taken with it and insisted on buying information technology for me.

You take to have it. You demand another cow.

How could I refuse?

I mean, come on, when you're a decor addict and a guy wants to buy you cow, you lot ever say yes.

So this niggling barnyard pyramid came habitation with us. And all was well. For about a calendar month.

Until.

Yup. I kid you non.

Somehow, someway, he knocked into it (while doing the dishes...so who could be mad at him?) and it broke.

It wasn't a bad break, just a crack in the caprine animal's legs, just plenty to knock his anxiety loose and expose the heavy wire that held that statue together.

He was mad. There was no way this repair was going to get the ameliorate of him. So off to the garage he went.

When he emerged, the legs were amend. He used a simple two part epoxy glue to gum the feet downward to the cow, where they had separated and let them dry.

And then he used a 2 part epoxy putty to rebuild the part of the legs that were missing and once they were dry, he sanded them with a fine sandpaper so they were perfectly smooth.

It'due south a procedure nosotros've used since to repair a yard sale lamp.

Information technology looked amazing. I couldn't believe what a dandy job he did.

And yet, I totally could.

So I put information technology back on the counter, thinking we were washed. Of class, he wasn't satisfied with that.

No. At present it's your turn. Prepare the finish.

What?? I can't fix that. Are yous kidding?  It's like a professional stop. They sprayed that or something.

No. Get out your paints and Exquisitely Unremarkable it up...

It'll never match...

Attempt it.

So I did.

Showtime I mixed two paint colors together, tested information technology and when I was 99% sure it was correct, I painted it on the putty with a modest bristle brush.

I was ready to leave it that way, when I decided, I wasn't a quitter either.

Again I peeked at my paint collection and tried to find a friction match for the spots.

So I took a very pocket-size, very square, very stiff bristled brush, dipped it in the paint, dabbed it onto a piece of newspaper towel to remove any excess and gave it ii random, quick pounces on each leg.

And wow...information technology worked. I have to admit I was shocked.

So was he.

And however he wasn't.

That little piece of farmhouse kitchen decor looks equally proficient as new now.

But we've both agreed.

We're done with cows.

Psst- not quite...I had to requite information technology one more endeavour!

Who knew they were so much trouble?

Gauge they're better left on the farm.

Have y'all had any cow mishaps?

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