So I have found a new love in Pinterest. I had resisted
joining for some time as I was worried about getting sucked in by all the great
stuff, but when my mom joined and conned me into joining too, I fell in love
will all the great ideas. In fact, it’s kind of why I started the blog. One of
the great things about Pinterest is you see they really neat DIY projects. I love
a project I can do myself, especially on the cheap! Since my house has mostly
silver, and nickel finishes, it tends to be the decorating color of choice for
me. One of the projects that I saw was this DIY project making brass items into
a silver finish. I first saw the project on “Our humbled abowed” here. It
looked like something that I could totally tackle.
The project has you take Blue Magic Cream and steel wool,
rub it into a brass piece and then you get a nice silver finish at the end. So
I gleefully (mind you gleefully) went to Goodwill and the Salvation Army to
pick up some brass pieces. I want to grab a couple because when I was online
looking at how to the project, some people said that it was hard to do with
solids brass pieces and worked much better on pieces only with a brass finish.
I ended up picking three pieces; a brass bowl that had a really lovely shape, a small brass vase with some nice detail work, and a rounded brass bowl with cutouts. They cost $1, $2, and $2 respectively. So I was only into the project $5 so far.
So I head to Fred Meyers and pick up a variety pack of wool for $2.50 and try again. I used three different grades of steel wool and the items only got cleaner. At this point, I figure that the items are solid brass; the only problem is that they all feel too light to be solids brass. Also, as I scrubbed the tall vase, I was getting a silver color, but it was so tinted yellow that it was hard to call it silver. I even used our Dremel to buff the cream into the items. It was a smoother application, but did not make them any more silver.
Finally, after talking to my mom, and remembering some good advice. I went to Home Depot and bought a can of chrome spray paint. I mean anything can be fixed with spray paint right? The can cost me $4 and if I had just skipped to that in the first place I would have saved $14.50.
Ok, ok, not everything goes as planned, but it was sure fun trying it. Plus I
ended up need the steel wool to scrap off the silicone finish from the blue
magic cream so I could spray paint my stuff. That was useful! J
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