Making Time

The world keeps spinning, but sometimes it seems the spin is faster with every year…
As I look round at what’s happening in various corners of the globe, it brings the thought that there is only so much time in a life, and we all get to decide how to use it wisely.
Make time for the small things…
Maybe they’ll all add up to become the important things?

I don’t yet know how my time will go this year – there are still things to find out, and decisions to be made.
I can do some small things in the meantime!
This project has been on the backburner for a while. Our clock has been with us for nearly 30 years (it was a wedding present) and has travelled without breakage, or even losing time. Not long after we moved to this house, it fell off the shelf it was on. I didn’t even know that there was glass over the dial and pendulum! Thankfully, the large glass circle over the dial survived, but the pendulum glass smashed beyond repair.
I put it all aside for a bit, had a cry, and tried to work out how to fix it. I think it took so long because I was trying to make it the same as it was.
Some things can’t be fixed. But you can still make the best of what’s left!
Not only was the glass smashed, but the dial face was old and crumbling.
I tried to glue it down.
I tried to paint over the cracks.
That just made it look worse.

And so…

I made a new clock face (or, at least, downloaded one 🙂 ), and repurposed an old frame insert in place of the pendulum (which hadn’t worked for a while anyway).
It’s not perfect.
The glue buckled the paper a bit, and I think it’s slightly off centre. We still have to stick the plastic cover down. It works, though!

Time.
Unless I live to be 110 or older, I’m at least halfway or more through my life.
Time –
to use the days wisely,
cherish the important things,
and remember to be grateful for the years still left.
❤