Motorcycle Remodeled! Trash to my son's treasure!

AFTER

BEFORE

This is a motorcycle I found on the side of the road. I wasn't sure what it at first because it was covered by a broken lamp shade. After toting it home and I started looking at what I had found, there was a lot of cracked plastic as you can see from the pictures. Unfortunately there was no way to salvage the front and back plastic pieces. In the process I discovered the base can come off of the motorcycle! This made removing the broken pieces much easier.Inside of the wheels was a couple wasps nests and there was also dirt caked on everywhere.

Really dirty, but so much potential!

Washed and starting to look better....

Hosed down and cleaned up!

 Removed broken plastic and the base to make cleaning and painting easier. Another problem I ran into was that the handles were really sticky no matter how I washed them, so I covered them with duct tape, not the ideal choice...but it works.

AFTER:  I started by spray painting the whole thing with a plastic adhering spray paint.

I then started painting the parts I wanted to be silver white as a base and then covered with silver. I painted the saddle bags and seat black. I used sharpie marker to paint the license plate and the speedometer. The last step is just to spray the whole thing with a clear coat to keep it from scratching easily.

I really like the way it turned out. The wheels are a little dirty, but that is because my son rides it around the house and I didn't see a point in repainting the wheels or I might have scuff marks on my floors.

My son loves this motorcycle and I'm so excited to have found this treasure that someone else was trashing.

Rocking Chair Redone

Two of my sweet friends go for walks in the morning and they found this old rocking chair that was pretty much in pieces, it needed to be cleaned, and glued all back together.

We were going to stain it, but it wasn't looking the way we wanted. So I decided to paint it and paint a little details on it to match our babies room. Some of the paint got a little clumpy in spots and isn't as "perfect" as I would have liked, but it will work for our little person.

 BEFORE: Rocking chair found on the side of the road.

 AFTER: Painted with some off white paint I had left over from something else.

Before and After together. I'm happy with how it turned out and I'm excited for my next project.