Thursday, Oct 10th.
Then it was done.. Time to throw it in the trash.. As a last ditch experiment, I decided to cut it back a little.Then, hey, why not, I cut it back a lot.
Completely actually.And brought it into the mudroom, the one with all the window across the front of the house.. Bingo.About a month later and I had a fern again!.
Oh, and that pot?You want to know about that pot?
You mean the awesome crackly, aged, rope-edged work of art there?
Yeah, I saw you eyeing that up.. Well, it’s actually so aged that it’s in three pieces, with the potted fern sitting inside.So it must have done something.. Next I rubbed the whole thing with a bit of sandpaper.
At first I felt like I was doing something terribly wrong, but in the aftermath, I see if really did help the look overall..So at this point it just looked like a scratched up, slightly lighter-colored 1993 brass door knob..
I read somewhere that heating the brass up with a flame would help it tarnish quickly..I grabbed my candle lighter and got to firing that brass knob.. At a certain point it occurred to me that what I was actually doing was holding a flame up to a part of my beloved house and heating that part up more and more.. Um, no.. As usual, I didn’t want to wait to see the results of the natural tarnishing so I grabbed my trusty dollar store craft paints and did a little faux magic, instead of you know, setting my house aflame.. -Wipe on a dab of black everywhere, including in the nooks and crannies.