How To Repair Resin Statues

Have you lot broken a resin statue and want to repair information technology?

Nosotros did it and information technology was easy!! Y'all'd never know there was harm.

Cheque out the quick and like shooting fish in a barrel DIY.

Many years ago, on the way dorsum from a trip out east, we stopped at a farmstead. There are lots of them out in that location and they're all and so sweetness, it'south impossible to skip one.

Even when they're all selling the same thing. Sunflowers, strawberries, tomatoes and corn.

Oh. And pie.

Lots of pie.

My married man knows the drill. He instinctively pulls over without being asked. I guess that comes from too many years of Expect! Get back!!

Anyway, on that one trip, I found a cow. I remember that my mom spotted information technology first.

Kimmie, this would look great in your kitchen.

And she was right. It would. Information technology had that rustic-cottage-farmhouse way look...plus I didn't own a cow and I'd e'er loved them.

They reminded me of higher, when I lived upstate, they were everywhere. I used to accept to stop my car and expect, while the farmers led their herds across the street, from pasture to barn.

I hateful really, is there anything more mannerly than that?

At $30, she was a trivial pricey and my mom wanted to purchase her for me, she was always treating me to things - So many sweet memories - but I was a big girl now with a house and family unit of my ain. I figured I could get this i myself.

So along with a purse of apples and some cookies, that cow hopped in the minivan with us.

She was tan and blackness and pretty large and sat on my pino server for years. The kids loved her, like a pet.

Hi cow!,they would say, equally they ran her by later school. She was a existent role of the family.

Until. You knew it was coming.

Until one twenty-four hour period, for no reason, my plate rack simply fell off the wall, crashed into the cow, who hit the flooring and smashed into too many pieces to repair.

And trust me. Nosotros tried.

I think my DIY guy was the most upset. In that location aren't a lot of things he can't set and this was very disappointing to him.

Then much so, that for years, he's been looking for another cow, but similar it, but and then far no luck.

Honestly, the just place I've seen a moo-cow fifty-fifty close is on my friend Brenda's blog. She has one that'southward like, only smaller.

Well, fast forward to Dec. We were in HomeGoods, looking effectually and my husband found this darling resin statue.

Not fifty-fifty remotely the same moo-cow, as this one had friends, merely my hubby was very taken with information technology and insisted on buying information technology for me.

Y'all have to accept it. You need another cow.

How could I decline?

I hateful, come on, when you're a decor addict and a guy wants to buy you lot cow, you ever say yes.

So this footling barnyard pyramid came home with us. And all was well. For near a month.

Until.

Yup. I kid you not.

Somehow, someway, he knocked into information technology (while doing the dishes...so who could be mad at him?) and it broke.

It wasn't a bad break, just a crack in the goat's legs, but enough to knock his feet loose and expose the heavy wire that held that statue together.

He was mad. In that location was no way this repair was going to go the ameliorate of him. And then off to the garage he went.

When he emerged, the legs were better. He used a simple two part epoxy mucilage to glue the feet downwards to the cow, where they had separated and let them dry.

Then he used a two part epoxy putty to rebuild the part of the legs that were missing and once they were dry, he sanded them with a fine sandpaper so they were perfectly smooth.

It's a process we've used since to repair a yard sale lamp.

It looked amazing. I couldn't believe what a groovy job he did.

And nonetheless, I totally could.

So I put it back on the counter, thinking we were washed. Of class, he wasn't satisfied with that.

No. Now it's your turn. Fix the finish.

What?? I can't set up that. Are you kidding?  It's like a professional end. They sprayed that or something.

No. Get out your paints and Exquisitely Unremarkable it upwardly...

Information technology'll never match...

Try information technology.

Then I did.

Beginning I mixed two pigment colors together, tested it and when I was 99% sure it was right, I painted it on the putty with a small bristle brush.

I was set up to leave it that way, when I decided, I wasn't a quitter either.

Again I peeked at my paint collection and tried to find a match for the spots.

Then I took a very small, very foursquare, very stiff bristled brush, dipped it in the paint, dabbed it onto a piece of paper towel to remove whatever excess and gave it 2 random, quick pounces on each leg.

And wow...information technology worked. I accept to admit I was shocked.

And then was he.

And nevertheless he wasn't.

That lilliputian piece of farmhouse kitchen decor looks as good as new now.

Simply we've both agreed.

We're washed with cows.

Psst- not quite...I had to give it one more than try!

Who knew they were so much trouble?

Guess they're better left on the farm.

Accept yous had any moo-cow mishaps?

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