{"id":1194,"date":"2013-06-07T23:36:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2013-06-09T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T15:28:59","slug":"gadget-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/gadget-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Gadget girl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019ve never really been a gadget lover unless you include my sewing kit, but one thing I have always had a hankering for is a detail sander; a neat little hand held device which I could use to save time when preparing surfaces for paint. Probably because I love shabby chic and would like to customise found objects and charity shop finds.<br \/>\nLast week I bought some teak oil to treat my Garden furniture but didn\u2019t get any further than storing it in the garage, I couldn\u2019t face the work of sanding them all down by hand with a sanding block, and hadn\u2019t the patience to try to persuade my Dearest to do it, he doesn\u2019t DO manual labour!<br \/>\nImagine then my delight at finding the very thing I needed in my local supermarket, at a very reasonable price. No contest; one of those was coming home with me. I hardly stopped to put away the groceries, before running out to the back garden to try out my new toy. A gadget which saves time and effort is always a blessing, especially if it means you enjoy the task, even better if you can get someone else to enjoy the task instead, I wonder if I could get the thirteen year old interested&#8230;..?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4641.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1195\" alt=\"stripped down and ready in half an hour!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4641.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4641.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4641-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">stripped down and ready in half an hour!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My old grotty moss stained teak garden chair was sanded down and given a coat of Teak oil in less than an hour, next task is the teak garden bench which lives on the terrace in the back garden, and then the bench from the front of the house. Note the foolish mistake, I didn\u2019t put down newspaper before I began, so now I will need to clean the paving, Doh! Next time I\u2019ll work on the lawn, it won\u2019t do any permanent damage.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1196\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4643.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1196\" alt=\"Teak oiled.....Good as new\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4643.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4643.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1-IMG_4643-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 85vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teak oiled&#8230;..Good as new<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hardly stopped to put away the groceries, before running out to the back garden to try out my new toy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[323,5,4],"tags":[342,978,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}