Nine Lives: Revamp a Clock

Blow the dust off the clock.

Your watches are behind the times.

Throw open the heavy curtains

which are so dear to you - 

you do not even suspect that the day

has already dawned outside.

~Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn

This clock's led nearly nine lives since it was gifted to us in 2004.  It is handmade from ikat fabric from Indonesia, (in the Philippines it's called batik, I think?), wood and brass pieces.  It was purchased for us in Davao on Mindanao Island, Philippines.

2011, in a new outfit

Below, I caught a glimpse of this clock

in a 2004 photo from our life in the Mission House.

Black frame

It was relocated here in 2005.

2005

See the clock?

In this photo, below, you can see the reflection of the clock in the Guam house's hall restroom mirror.  See that dark middle ring?  The hands on the clock are also black, so this clock has always been very difficult to read.

The clock's new location is in our master bedroom above the door to the master bath.  To give the clock a new outfit and make it easier to read, I first disassembled it.  With scrapbook paper very near the shade of the rest of the clock's face, I "tore" a round.  With a couple dots of Aileene's Tacky Glue I glued the round over the dark inner ring.

I rewired the 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock brass pieces in the existing holes. I didn't replace the other bells after taking them off and couldn't care less that removing them left holes.

After spray painting the frame and cleaning the glass,

I re-assembled the beautiful 'new' clock

and hung it back up on the wall.

NOW we can see perfectly

the hands of this very special time piece!