I will apologise in advance for the number of wedding
related posts you are going to see from me in the coming months. My little brother finally tied the knot in
December and I was lucky enough to be asked to do the little things that add to
a special day like the invitations, wishing well etc. My little girl was blessed with being one of
the flower girls along with my two beautiful nieces. So, as you can imagine I have a HUGE pile of
photographs waiting to be scrapped.
However, today I thought I would show you the Wishing
Well I prepared for the special day - It's raw version is a Molossi
product and I'm fortunate enough to be on their design team. In addition to the wells they can also custom laser cut MDF for you in freestanding names for the table or even to add to your well - I'm just waiting on photos from the wedding photographer to show you the ones I ordered and decorated for my brother. If you have a wedding coming up or perhaps you make invitations for
people as a little business - follow this link to the Molossi site and check out all their custom cut items - they even do cake toppers now!!!!
The wishing well is laser cut from 12mm MDF and stands 80cm
high. The actual box part of the well is
40cm wide and 30cm high. When you
receive the well it comes in 8 flat packed pieces. It is really easy to assemble and in fact I
decorated mine in pieces and transported it flat from Qld to NSW for the
wedding as I didn’t have a great deal of room in my car. I simply put it together the night before the
wedding by tapping the lugs into the correct holes. To transport it home I simply pulled it apart
and brought it home flat packed also J You can glue it for extra strength but I
found this really wasn’t necessary. It
is a very sturdy well and at no stage has it ever looked like it might
separate.
Now I’m blessed with a husband who is a spray painter, so I
took the raw pieces to him and had him spray them and clear coat them in 2pac
car paint! I knew that no amount of
knocking around en-route to the wedding would damage them this way and I simply
wrapped the pieces in cloth to avoid any scratches. However, the edges are black due to the laser
cutting and it takes more than a fine mist of paint to cover this. Out came my trusty Adirondack acrylic paints
( I found a pearl colour which was an exact match to the white pearl paint
hubby had used) and two coats with a paint brush on the edges and all was
covered perfectly. As the paint was
pearlised and therefore had a sheen of it’s own and it was just the edges, I haven’t bothered with any clear lacquer
over the top. However, if you don’t have access to a painter friend
and are doing the whole project in acrylic paint I would suggest you then cover
in a clear gloss to give your well a shine and protect the paint.
I then ran a fine line of Helmar 450 glue (this stuff sticks
ANYTHING) along the edges of the well and added some sticky
bling runners also from Molossi.
These runners come in a huge range of colours and even pearl runners –
check out this link to see all of them http://www.molossi.com.au/online-shop/#!/~/category/id=6949268&offset=0&sort=normal. Now whilst these are self adhesive, I found
that without a bit of added adhesive help the heat affected them and they
peeled off. A quick touch of glue
beneath them and they are there for life J
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