Crazy Convex and Concave Mirrors

Concave or Convex?  How about one of each?

I picked these funky mirros up at an awesome garage sale in Iowa last summer and here's what they looked like:

Now seriously.  Could you pass that quirkiness up?  Not I!

I painted them slate blue - the same slate blue mistint that I painted my piano with, and a multitude of other projects because it's like the vessel of oil in the Old Testament that never went dry!

Then my partner in crime, Maran, helped me hot glue jute rope around the edge of the mirrors....

And then they sat on the shelf for months.  And months.  Until....  I found these decoupaged plaques in Saint Vincent DePaul for 75% off!  Not only did I score on the plaques, but I could use those screw-in rings for the top of my mirrors!!!!  

Happy, happy day.  The mirrors were finally able to hang with jute rope from a little gold metal loop that screwed into the top.  I put some polyurethane over the paint to seal it because the paint was scratching off the wood way too easily!

So the convex mirror is like one of those crazy mirrors in a fun house, and the concave... well it not only distorts, but it flips the image upside down!  And the only reason I remember the difference between convex and concave was from back in school when I had to memorize it for a test: concave is "caved" in.  See, something stuck. :)

I don't know.... but I think they have a nautical look to them. :)

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What's Gray and White, Old and Beautiful...

It's been beautiful weather for painting furniture!  So how about a before and after for your viewing pleasure and hopefully inspiration today?

Found this vintage dressing table (or vanity as I always called them) at a garage sale while on the way to the swimming pool with the kids one hot summer day.  It had a five dollar price tag on it so of course I couldn't pass it up!  I'm pretty sure the mirror was also attached to it... but let's not talk about that.

I made some homemade chalk paint out of some gray I had and painted it all.  The drawers were a difficult story.  They are also the reason this has sat in my barn for a couple years... I just didn't know how to tackle the drawer problem!  They were stuck in.  Like I could not pry, yank, pull them out.  Somehow my hubby and Dad managed to get them out.  I tried all the usual tricks to get drawers to slide such as candle wax, sanding, you name it, before whipping out my hubby's sawzall.  The thing is so big for my small hands - I had to duct tape down the safety button in order to operate it.  Guess they aren't meant for kids.  However, now that I know I can operate it, nothing shall stand in my way.  Mwahahaha.


Then I got out one of my stencils and some white paint and added a little decorative deliciousness to the front.

The front drawer looked way too bare, so I added a pull.  And in all actuality, this is not even a drawer pull.  It's a curtain finial I bought on clearance at Bed, Bath, and Beyond one long ago day.  I LOVE them for drawer pulls!!!!  Good thing I bought a massive stash of them that day.  They were like 50 cents for a pack of two.  Score and double score.

Can't even begin to remember where this mirror came from.  If you gave it to me, holler and I'll give you credit. :) 

It's not antique or anything, but it had the perfect rounded bottom to make it look great with this piece. 

Gotta love trying to take a picture of something that has a mirror.  No way no how to do it straight on without gettin' a selfie.

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Medicine Cabinet Before and After

I called my mama yesterday late morning and convinced her to drive out spur of the moment and see me.  It's a seven hour drive.  She had to take supper to two different families, pack, take her mother to a doctor appointment, and make my dad food before she left.  But she came and I'm SOOOO HAPPY because she's helping me COMPLETELY makeover our master bedroom.  Furniture painted, walls, you name it, it won't be the same room two days from now.  Problem is her back is going out.  DOHT!  Anyways, I'll take advantage of this Wednesday and make it a "Wordless Wednesday" and give you something that made it's way in my bathroom makeover, but never got featured on it's own.  Here's my $2 mirrored medicine cabinet:

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Stenciled Mirror

My mom needed a big mirror for her and dad's little cabin.  Gotta have someplace to apply the wrinkle cream.  

Fortunately, I have a stash.  Of about everything.  These came from Saint. Vincent De Paul  in Waterloo during my junkin' day with Laura from Our Prairie Home.  I wish I would have bought more!  

Mom requested it be white.  However, just "white" isn't acceptable.  I dug through my stencils and found this one I had bought in a pack and had never used.  It was just the thing!  I stenciled it with "battle ship gray" acrylic paint.

After! 

Zebra Stenciled Mirror

Picked up at Saint Vincent De Paul the day I was out junking with Laura from Our Prairie Home.  The lady said they  had come out of a hotel, which I had suspected might have been the case.  Kind of wish I had snagged more than just four!

I painted the frame of one of them black, and then using this TINY little zebra stencil, I started  the tedious task of  covering the entire frame with the striped pattern.  Shoulda just gone with the zebra duct tape!!

Finished product!  Too bad it's so obvious in places where the stencil starts and stops but hey.  I wasn't feeling like a perfectionista that day.

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Master Vanity Before and After for $33

 One day, I woke up.  Good thing.  It's not a good sign if we don't wake up.  I got the boys on the bus and headed back upstairs to get dressed and brush my teeth, but while I was in the bathroom, I got distracted by the ugliness of my vanity and decided I had looked at that thing "as is" long enough!  Without even changing out of my jammies, I ran downstairs, dumped some plaster of paris into some almost white paint I had on hand and started painting.  

Over a year ago, a friend had called wondering if I wanted all the old drawer pulls from her kitchen.  They were remodeling and got all new.  Free?  Handles?! Yes please!  Any shape or size! :)  I dug those out and spray painted them a hammered silver.  As well as the white toilet paper holder and brassy gold towel bar.

Here's what it looked like when I thought I was done.  I used the Cutting Edge Stencil I won with their photo contest submission (BOO YEAH!) and sent this photo to my sister and Debra from Dynamic Designs to see what they thought.  Better, but still kinda "UGH".  The white cabinets made the counter and sing look way to peachy and it clashed bad.  I was really nervous about trying to paint it because it's such a slippery ceramic surface, and I had no idea how a sink especially would hold up.  then I got around the sink issue when I saw how Debbie Doo's had taped off her's to make it look like a drop sink.  BINGO.  That's what I'd do.

I used regular masking tape because I wanted it to really stick!

 Then to my surprise, instead of having to buy more Rustoleum countertop paint, I had over half a can left from my kitchen countertops!!!  Oh excitement.  It was the perfect color, too.  I used a trusty foam roller, and applied a coat, and then another after the first had dried.  I'm pretty sure I'm 50% more brain dead after that.  That stuff is powerful.  At least I'm not pregnant like I keep dreaming I am!  Sheesh, what awful dreams.  Three is all I can handle!!!  Anyways, I also put two coats of poly on top of that to help seal it in.

It leaked under a little bit.  I'm a little nervous how well this is going to hold up on the edge.

SOOOOOOOOOO glad I rescued these from the burn pile when we tore off the laundry room for our addition.  I knew I'd need this old gorgeous wide trim someday!  I convinced my Hubs that it would be perfect around our ugly mirror.  Actually, first I had to convince him that the mirror was ugly. 

Applying the top piece was easy, as it went right into the wall.  The bottom one however.... not so easy.  Tim cut this board to hold it in place while the liquid  nail dried.

We found the light fixture on Ebay for $24!!!!  One globe was cracked and a socket was broken (but still functional) when we received it so we've got a new globe on the way and they also refunded us $10!! 

Now there's something I can live with!  

And All I had to buy was the hammered spray paint $5 and the light which we got for $28 (after shipping).

Total cost: $33

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