Being Creative: Fixing a broken plate by using ribbon...and other musings...

In my downstairs bathroom I have some items featuring Lighthouses...now, one of the things I love is lighthouses. I think they are rather cool. My mother in law bought me a book about Scottish Lighthouses after she noticed that I had a lot of lighthouse things in the bathroom. Well, to make a long story short...I had a cute little decorative plate with a lighthouse painted on it. I moved it on to a shelf in the bathroom to make room for my Christmas bath stuff...and a few weeks later...oops!!!!

Needless to say, I was a bit upset! I fixed part of it and saw that I could not find the other broken pieces...so it sat on the shelf...broken for a few months. I got the idea to look at ribbon at Hobby Lobby and see if I could do anything to make it look nice. So looking at a bunch of ribbon...hoping to find something with a nautical theme to it...I found a monochromatic blue ribbon...which after not having any luck finding something with a nautical theme, I went with this one.

I found a heavy duty paper clip to hold the starting point and "bunched" the ribbon around the plate so it would make it's way around it. I used Super glue to bond to the plate...it took me about an hour to do...and the Jennerbug got antsy during that time. I thought that I could always stop and come back to it...but I didn't quit...even when my daughter was wanting me to change the channel on the tv.

And VOILÀ!!!!!!! The finished project! As you can see it's back to where I've had it forever...on my sink in the bathroom. I thought it turned out nice and it's better to have it looking decent, covering up that ugly chip along it's edge!!!!

Other Musings:

Tomorrow is Movie Monday!!!!! Featuring the Little Tramp...aka...Charlie Chaplin in the Kid with a very young Uncle Fester...I mean, Jackie Coogan.

Also of note: on my website I hope to have short stories posted every Saturday you can read it here...so be on the look out for that and don't forget my writings on the Examiner.com!!!!!!!!!!!