Whatever Clock Tutorial

Supplies:

Magnetic number sets ( or any number sets, I used these because they were available in the dollar store) - 3 sets ( Keep in mind that you will need fine 1 numbers so choose the numebr of sets accordingly)

Stretched canvas - 16X20 inches ( actually a square canvas would work better, but I had these on hand)

An old clock to get the clocking machinery, or clocking machinery

Letter stickers ( I got mine from Dollar store - you could also use a fabric marker to just write it)

Instructions:

1. Take out the clocking mechanism from an old clock. Find out the center of the canvas, pierce a hole there, and add the clocking mechanism to it. This is actually quite simple, just put all the things back the way they were in original clock. Took me 10-15 mins to do this.


2. Stick the letters to form the statement "Whatever I'm late anyway" In the bottom right corner. It will help if you get a feel of how much space these letters take beforehand. I wouldn't want to stick them and then have to move them around.

3. Use superglue at the back of the magnetic letters to stick them near the left bottom corner.

Keep a couple of things in mind here, if you have colorful numbers like mine, make sure you are not grouping the numbers of same color close by. That may not look visually appealing. Also keep in mind the way numbers are arranged on a normal clock, you want to have an effect that numbers have fallen off their position and got scattered near the bottom, think about how they would fall from a real clock.

I'm not sure if I achieved the look properly. I think if I do it again, I would use a single color letters instead of colorful. Initially I thought they look better, but on a second thought, they don't give the clock a 'serious clocky' look...you know.

You have the room to do some fun things here, think about a broken "1" hanging where "10" should be and rest of the "1" somewhere in the heap with "0". This is where you can give your own spin to the clock so have fun with it.

Hang your clock and conversation starter all in one with pride in your living room ( or wherever). We have already had some fun discussions about this clock with our guests.

DIY Whatever Clock - Done and Done!

I swooned over this clock the moment I saw it. Such a fun and functional piece. I bet it will give every guest a chuckle if you hung it in the living room. I like art pieces which serve as conversation starter, not to mention I myself would love to have such fun clock.
At the time, the best price I found for the clock was $100 which is not really what I like to spend on clocks ( Well...on anything actually). So I thought...well that doesn't look too hard to make, may be I can pull this off myself. Well, that conversation remained lodged in my brain for about 3 months but I never could quite forget the clock. So when Michaels had these canvases on sale, I just bought a value pack, thinking that I could convert it into a clock.
Then the canvases set beneath my sewing table for about a month until one day I found a few minutes and took apart an old clock to repurpose its machine for the new clock I wanted to make.
I took a deep breath, put back the clocking mechanism through a hole in the center of the canvas and pulled out the battery from something and put it in the battery slot of the clock. Lo and behold! the clock started ticking. Score!
Thats when I got pulled into something else and the 'clock' sat right there on top of the dresser where I was 'operating' on two clocks at the same time.
A week went by before I had the chance to stop by at the nearest Dollar Store. I was pretty sure that it will have something that would let me bring my project to a reasonable closure and I was not disappointed.
I spent $2 at the store and came home with a few things that I hoped will do the trick. And ya know what? It worked.

With dollar store accessories and 20 minutes of my time....my clock was ready. Here it is prettying up my living room. Done and Done!
It seems pretty simple but I'll just do a mini tutorial one of these days...Just Because!