Magic Show day 2

So here's the start point. This is what it looked like when I brought it. It's in bad shape.. but it looks good to me. I see the potential and I know I can get it there. 

Here's what this beautiful nightmare looked like at the home of it's owner. I love the red knobs and that sort of gun metal grey. But I doubt if it will look the same when I'm done. 

Look at the rust, look at the gunk whatever shall I do????

Tin foil rust dirt .. 

This thing looks terrible. 

SO today this (My second day of working on this project) this is what it's looking like. and u know what .. as I type this.. I'm still progressing.. so I might have ANOTHER blog update before the night is out.

Well like i told you yesterday I sprayed the top and the backsplash with a chemical that cleans up rust. And let me say.. it worked pretty good. 

I ended up taking the backsplash OFF.. and it made cleaning the stove SOOOOOO MUCH easier.  Plus i was able to get at some of the dirt i just couldn't reach.. so i gotta be careful not to loose track of how to put it all back together again. LOL 

Cleaned and Primed. Looks pretty good. Not PERFECT but considering this is NEVER going to be seen by the public beyond this blog.. I can live with it. 

Painted BLACK (a heat resistant spray paint) and the cross bar replace and the entire area waterproofed for good measure.  The gas lines ran and ready for the rest of the grill set up. 

The face plate being washed right now.

SO i started working on the GRILL side of things. Took it apart and doing some deep cleaning!! 

UGH.. gonna have to do some DEEP DEEP CLEANING.. lol

"Franklin Magic Chef" Magic Show.

The MAGIC CHEF restoration project!! 

Day 1 - Sunday, Sept 16 2012

SOOOOoOoooOO I plan on moving to Augusta, GA and I had a great idea. How about I start stock piling the things I want in my house into my 3 bedroom apartment and try to do complex restorations on my terrace as it turns from Summer to fall. 

GENIUS!

Well actually I think it is. Here's my logic. I figure, if I spend the time I have before I am ready to move finding awesome deals and if necessary fixing things up, I could put them in storage and bring them with me down to GA when I'm ready. 

See I figure if I move down to GA and don't have some of the things I want for my home already I'll just be trying to buy up a bunch of expensive stuff.. no patience no deals no sales just $$$$$$ being spent. This way.. I can find cool deals and stuff that I can restore or just hold on to.

So.. enough about my genius.. (u can use this idea if u plan on buying a home.. just tell everyone who put u on fam!!). Let's talk about the MAGIC SHOW I have for you happening right now! 

Below.. is a Franklin Magic Chef 6 Burner Stove with 2 ovens and a Griddle. This joint is INSANE!! I found it on Craigs List and the seller was selling for $500.00. I made an offer of $300.00 and he accepted. WHAT'S UP JOHN!!!! Thanks again!!!

SO after throwing my back out trying to get it up to my apartment on the 7th floor and out on the terrace.. arrrrrrrgh.. I started to take this joint apart and get to work!! 

Now this thing has CRAZY RUST, and all sorts of GREASE and GUNK and DIRT from sitting in a garage for YEARS... oh yeah and MAAAAAD SPIDER EGGS.. yuuuck!

So welcome to the magic show... watch the magic happen. Oh.. this won't be a 1 blog thing.. cause this is going to take me some time fam.. but hey.. a good blog will leave u in suspense anyway!

Here it is.. the Franklin Magic Chef see all that rust!!??! and all that dirt.

You can see the rust.. i took the knobs off and all that so I can start taking this joker apart.

I already removed the burners and the spill guards before I took this picture so you're looking at the guts of the stove. The good thing is that Stoves aren't very complicated to fix.. it's just no joke. Gonna take a lil skill. 

So now this is after some cleaning. As you can see the dirt and the rust are almost all gone from the base plate.  The side panel is cleaned and I started to get the backsplash cleaned up as well. Also you'll notice that there is a sanded portion on the front left side. I did that to see if i could easily sand down the original paint. I'm going to repaint the stove black and keep that black and steel look going. Gotta figure out how to keep the steel showing without it rusting again. 

Still cleaning and I sanded the top to get rid of the rust spots. But some of the rust i couldn't remove with my sander .

In that spray bottle is a rust remover that I have to let sit overnight. SOooo I've got to chill till tomorrow. (Dammit) in the meantime I'll work on some of the other components and get them clean while I can. 

Tin Can Mod 2.o (yeah just that quick)

In the words of P-Diddy.. "I thought I told you that we won't stop eh eh!"

Well this YOUNG MOD can't stop doing what I do.. plus I've got to keep this Blog entertaining!

So check it out, I did the last Tin Can Mod and it was pretty cool, in fact I even got a few Pins on Pinterest (AWESOME). But when I looked at it I already knew it wasn't at the level that I wanted it to be in so I called it the Tin Can Mod 1.0 knowing full well there will be so many versions of this over time that I've got to be forward thinking.

Well I'm getting closer to the end of my QPDoll Craft Work Space and I'll be starting work on my Daughters room. So i figured it would be a good chance to throw up Vers. 2.0 real fast. So check it out and let's see what I came up with.

This is a can I had already stripped and painted white. 

My daughter wants her room to have a black and white theme with  different  patterns and such so I picked these two patterns for the cans. 

Measuring the amount of cloth I'll need to wrap the cans.

I'm endorsing NO products however the one pictured above worked well.

I'm not too good at wrapping cans but it's getting done.

Finished wrapping it.. looks nice tho.

Both wrapped and ready to be mounted on a board.

Mounted on a piece of scrap wood. Looks OK.. I can't hang it on the wall because my daughter hasn't cleaned up her room enough for me to even know where to hang it. LOL

Tin Can Mod 1.0

So while trying to organize the QPDoll Craft Work Space, I struggled with pencils and more pencils. These things were under foot, in every box, on the shelves, and every where else you could think to look.

Incredibly, QPDoll can't draw! LOL

But such is the way of things for creative people, the must always have the tools to be creative with.. even if they never use them.

SO here's the mission:

Create a crafty alternative to a Pencil and Paintbrush holder for free.

Here's what this YOUNG MOD came up with.

Here are some coffee cans that my son found for me after a long adventure. I used the Citrus Stripper to  start removing the paint from the cans. Though now looking at them. I wonder if it would have been cooler to leave the original artwork on them.

Well on second thought.. now looking at them freshly dipped and sparkling in the sun.. they look fly.. but I know they are still a little rough around the edges.

Now this is after that first coat of white spray paint. Now u can really see the detailing in the cans. How some have wider ridges. Nice detail.

Checking my scrap wood pile for something to mount the cans too.

Here's my awesome daughter staining the wood..  those socks i find visually disturbing. LOL

 

Drilling holes in the back to add screws.

Screw on a nut and washer. 

Here's the finished product. Ready to hang.

Mounted to the wall and filled with Pencils and Paintbrushes. Looks pretty cool. I think.. I should have wrapped on or both in some sort of fabric. It would have added more character .. but it's cool with the over all decor.

This is me using my skills as an amateur photographer to make it look sexy.

Here's how it fits in to the larger design.. works nice. QPDoll said she likey!!

The Magnetic Board Mod

Magnetic Board Mod

This is how a YOUNG MOD takes on a Magnetic Board. I think the whole magnetic board thing is cool. While I'm doing this space for QP Doll she brought home a magnetic board from Micheal's which cost about $12.00. It was metal with a white background. 

I thought the board itself was Magnetic.. SURPRISE nope! It's just a friggin' piece of metal. Plus the magnets in the containers only stuck to the metal side not the white side. So it looks ugly to me. 

It just so happened that the space she NEEDS for the magnetic board is too small for the actual board... 

Duh duh duuuuuuuh!! Time to get crafty!

She happened to have a few metal squares lying around.. I mean literally lying around! SO after a few Pinterest inspirations I went to WORK!

Here are the metal squares about 8" x 12"

So my first set I spray painted White so as to go with the existing design. But the problem is EVERYTHING I've been  doing is WHITE and I need to get some color in here.

After realizing i need COLOR in this design I decided I'd grab some pieces of fabric from QP's sewing draw (that I just finished organizing.. lol ) and wrap the panels with it using fabric spray..
yes I over sprayed the pink one.. 

Here they are side to side.. it's going to be a nice contrast.

4 holes in each panel using a drill with a METAL bit. I broke a bit about 5 min before this picture was taken!

Used two pieces of scrap wood. (which turned out to be a mistake cause it was warped )

Screwed the panels onto the wood You can see a lip of the wood which I'm unhappy about. I'll fix it later. 

This is it with the magnetic cans.. looks Kool right. 

Another shot from a distance.. it's cute right?

Oh yeah .. follow me on Pinterest.. I LOVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVE Pinterest 

Another take on the Frame style Jewelry Display

Another take on the Frame style Jewelry Display

So I was perusing through Pinterest and while working on QP Doll's Craft Space I've been specifically looking for and at things that are Jewelry and Craft work space oriented.

I noticed a few awesome styles at this blog HERE  and decided I'd do something similar to this .

So check out what I came up with.. here are some pictures.

Nice and solid old wood frame. Took out the back and
cleaned it off so it'd be nice and clean and ready for paint.

Spray painted white to match the rest of the space.

I thought this was just beautiful fabric. So I cut a piece of
1/8th inch plywood to fit the back of the fram and wrapped in this
fabric using spray adhesive. 

Here's what it looked like with the frame. PROJECT COMPLETE!
Naah really tho it would have been nice right there. BUT..

QP Doll was supposed to bring me a sheet of chicken wire ...
obviously NO Chicken wire was brought SOO.. I used some
spare chain and Upholstery Tacks .. looks nice right?

After added wall catches I hung it up.. not bad.

See how it fits in between the brackets of the Shelf.

And here it is with her assortment of hand crafted earrings!! Not bad at all.
Total cost. $3.00 for the Upholstery tacks. I didn't use enough paint to
warrant adding in that cost. BUT the paint was about $6.00 at Home Depot.
All done!