I have some plans. In about a month, we are having a summerhouse delivered. What to do inside? Well, I have those plans, but from time to time I have to do more than just plan. I found this little old mirror in a secondhand shop. Cost very little, but loved it because the mirror backing is marked and starting to go - and I love that imperfect look. So this afternoon, I spent an hour in the garden.
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| Old mirror painted white some time ago, junk shop find for £12 |
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| Dirty, paint on mirror, etc etc but had potential! |
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| Masked off mirror with Frag Tape |
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| And this is the magic stuff with applicator! It's from an artist |
| shop (the silver, not the toothbrush!) |
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| Start to apply...... |
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| Finish, leave for five minutes, and polish with a wad of old cotton (Tshirt or similar) |
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| Looking good, eh? |
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| And there she is! polished, glass cleaned, and ready to hang.... and here's a view of the path at the front of the house - only backwards, of course! Must sweep up those holly leaves (every five years or so the holly "dumps" all its old leaves.... weird, I know, but it does). Anyway, the cost of the mirror and some elbow grease in the sun gave me a lovely new-to-me mirror. The the paste we had already - and really it's for highlighting things and
can be applied with your finger.... but this was too good to resist, and
it dries in under five minutes. Probably only used a 1 inch squeeze altogether. |
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