Wood you?

This project took many days to complete, and I'm glad it is finally completed.

Materials (from back left clockwise):
Acrylic paint (not craft paint)
Glaze (found at my Household Hazardous Waste Swap and Shop)
Wood (found in my neighbor's dumpster and cleaned up)*
Brush (my favorite scruffy brush)

*In addition to cleaning the wood, I also cut the ends straight on my miter saw and sanded them.

The paint is nice and thick, while the glaze is very thin.

Here is the first side and ends painted and still quite wet.  Once dry, I painted the other side and touched up the ends.

This doily was under a cup of soup I was served years ago.  Before it got damaged, I removed it and put it in my purse.  Note how the wood grain can still be seen through the paint.  I resisted painting another coat.

I colored the doily using yellow fluid acrylic.   Note, too I am using the reverse side of the wood from the one shown in the photo above this one.  It had the most flaws and I believed I would be able to hide them, while leaving the "back" side nearly flawless.

Once dry, I adhered the doily to the wood with PVA (white) glue using an old gift card.

I drug out my E-6000 and lots of yellow silk flowers and leaves.

I auditioned the flowers to see which looked best.

Right now, nothing is glued in place.  Although I have no formal training and have never taken lessons on flower arranging, if you decide to make an arrangement similar to mine, I suggest you find large flowers, medium sized flowers, and small filler flowers.  Let the leaves cover any and all stems you don't want seen.

Now that I had an idea of where each flower would be placed, I glued them in place and let them sit for several days under several heavy weights.

This is what my tulips looked like when I first started this project.

This is what they looked like when I finally glued the faux flowers in place on the wood piece.

This is what my tulips looked like outside at the same time.  Note my hyacinths (lower center just to the right of the sign) are now nearly finished for the year.

I have an abundance of tulips and dandelions this spring.

Now that the flowers were finally fully attached to the wood, I auditioned clock faces. 

After several false starts

I tried to center it to the doily.

You can see I rearranged some of the flowers

before I glued them in place. While waiting for glue to dry, I finished my federal and state taxes.  Nothing like waiting till the last minute, although this year, I could have waited three more months due to the virus outbreak.

By this time, my tulips were starting to fade and droop.

Lisca suggested a contest to see who counted the most rocking horses in the photos.  It's really unfair because they are hidden everywhere in my house, including five on top of the cabinet you see in the background.  One I especially love is a music box that sits on this desk.  It's purple and yellow and can be seen in the photo above this one, but the rocking horse is really subtle and hard to see from the photos.

I'm really delighted you stopped by today.  For Day 15 of 22 I cut, cleaned, and sanded a length of heavy wood I found in my neighbor's dumpster.  To that I added some purchased paint and some glaze I got at my Household Hazardous Waste Swap and Shop.  I added a doily I got at a local restaurant that I colored using purchased fluid acrylic.  The blue button was repurposed from a blouse I used in my art, and the clock hands were purchased at a shop that was going out of business a few years ago.  I hope you find something to recycle, repurpose, or reuse today, too.