curing

Recently I had the opportunity to finish a little project that’s been curing for a while. If I’d known it would be so quick and easy I would have completed it ages ago!

I bought this awesome cast iron hand to hold jewelry in my bathroom from one of my favorite shops in Columbus, Elm and Iron (they have a shop in Cincinnati too)…

And while the cast iron look is great, it was not the look I was going for in my bathroom. So I broke out some leftover champagne metallic spray paint and gave it a spritz.

After a mere two quick coats, it looks like this…

Exactly the look I was going for.

So I hung it below my affirmation art…

…and added a little gold paint pen to the screw heads so they didn’t stick out like a sore thumb. (Get it? Sore thumb?)

Add jewelry and voila! A stylish piece with a practical application!

Hands down, a super fun project!

(OK, I’ll stop with the puns now.)

If you’ve read about more than a couple of my projects, you’ve probably noticed that just about every project involves an important process that I lovingly refer to as “curing”.

What is curing, you may ask?

Perhaps some of you are familiar with this tried and true practice. It’s when you bring home a fabulous flea market or dumpster diving find and let it “cure” in your garage or basement for weeks, months, or possibly even years.

(OK, let’s be honest, it’s really a function of procrastination, but doesn’t curing sound so much better?)

Do you let projects “cure”? What was your longest curing time? I’ll fess up…I’ve got a project in my garage that’s probably been there for 4 years. Hopefully it’s almost fully cured. Never can tell.