Bird Bath & Turtle Freshen Up

I finally completed a project off my To Do List after about 4 years. Not bad !! Well, it’s pretty much almost complete. We gave our bird bath and turtle a little freshening up with some new paint. I love the turtle and the bird bath turned out good enough.

They were both chipped pretty bad. I love the two toned color that they were originally painted. We finished scraping off what paint was willing to come off. Sanded it a bit and then painted.

I ended up choosing a paint that looks like a stone finish. I tried really, really hard to find the same colors that it was before but no luck. The closest I could find was this gray.

I really still liked the two toned paint colors in the birds and flowers, so I left them for now. I’m going to continue to keep my eye out for a closer color match, then just touch those chips up later.

I do like how it turned out. We had one oops though, and it was a big one. The paint was an indoor paint ! And it rained the night we painted them. So we had to touch them up pretty good, and then add a clear coat to seal it.

It is a nice speckled stone effect for this kind of project or pots and vases.

Then there’s the turtle. He actually turned out better than he originally was. I don’t have a before picture, but the paint color on him is perfect. Ashlyn drew a line where the mouth indent was and painted eyes. Before the mouth and eyes were there, it was just a solid color. I think her painted mouth and eyes enhanced the little guy.

Glad that’s off my list finally. Sometimes projects like this just take awhile to get the omph to do them. Then again, sometimes I just forget that I wanted to do it too. Hope your getting projects done off your list. Have a great day and hopefully you are enjoying the weather wherever you are.