Meet Wilbur:
This is the dilapidated rocking horse that was passed on to my daughter from a family with two boys... so this is his condition after 3 kids worth creative playing. Now that Genny is nearly 4, and she's beginning to lose interest in her once-beloved plaything, we first asked her permission to put him in our yard sale (with promise of a "new-from-the-thrift-store" toy with the proceeds), to which she consented. Of course the bugger didn't sell (poor boy's missing his eye stickers!), so instead I use the opportunity of a friend-of-a-friend's son's birthday as an excuse to re-do him.
This is a picture of him once the rest of the stickers were stripped, and we had convinced him to don that ridiculous plastic bag shower cap. Not surprisingly, I had a heck of a time getting the stickers off... though somehow my daughter made it look so easy.
The next treatment he received was a nice coat of Rustoleum primer for plastic.... and then his red parts were given a couple thorough coats of Rustoleum Red for plastic.
After drying for quite some time, the red parts were carefully masked off, and the horse himself was painted black, with paint from the same plastics line. Finally (for this installment), Wilbur was again thoroughly dried. 
The result at the end of this work, was a two-tone red and black horse lacking detail... except for his original blue Mohawk, which now looks shockingly out of place.
1 comment:
can't wait to see the rest!
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