After spending 20 minutes at the Thrift Store on Post I found a REALLY black silver candlestick and an oval platter. I didn't have any silver polish at home, and I wasn't going to budget some funds to purchase it for this project, so I went for the old tomato ketchup trick for polishing silver.
I used Gorilla Glue to adhear the silver candlestick to the platter and left it for a few hours while I ran errands with my kiddos and picked up my soldier from pre-Air Assault Training (more on that later).
This evening I had a few mint cookies left over that my sweet children hadn't devoured and my soldier's current favorite treat, peanut m&m's, and my favorite candle scent and snapped a few after pictures.
Cost of platter: $3
Cost of silver candlestick: $2
Ketchup on hand
Gorilla Glue on hand
Happy Results!
Seriously? Ketchup works as silver polish? How have I never heard that before?
ReplyDeleteThe finished project is beautiful!
Thanks Karen! Yes Ketchup gets it shiny and scrubbing with a mild abrasive (cloth or sodas)...it worked!
ReplyDeleteI love it! Look forward to catching up when we get back to EP at the end of the month.
ReplyDeleteCarrie
Way cool! Aren' you a clever wife! I'm impressed.
ReplyDeleteThat is impressive Shawn!! First, that you saw those two items and thought of the project; then that you knew how to do it -- with ketchup.
ReplyDeleteThe finished project is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWork from home India