I have been taking a well-earned break today.
This last week or so has seen me FINALLY decorating our bedroom! It's has only
been planned for the last 12 months and at last I got the paint brushes out and
got stuck into it. Of course it's never as simple as just painting is it? There
is always holes to fill and sanding to be done and all the shifting of
furniture etc etc. I am now at the reassembly part of the job which isn't simple either. We have an awful lot of clutter and tat and nowhere to put any of it
so I am having a good throw-out too.
We had this old mirror up before. It's just a
cheap plastic frame that I think I got from a car boot sale and painted
black. In an effort to try and make the room much cheerier and prettify
it a bit, I have been thinking of ways to up-cycle it. Obviously my
first instinct was to yarn-bomb it and crochet a cover for the frame. I soon
realised that would not be an easy job, it is a tight fit in the frame and
having yarn involved would complicate things. So I grabbed some fabric odds and
ends and a pot of PVA glue and set to covering it in fabric, decoupage style.
I also found these pinking shears that I got from
my Granny, still neatly boxed, I love the box!
Using the pinking shears on the fabric should be a nice
simple way of avoiding fraying, I hope.
MESSY process!
I wasn't sure if PVA would do the job, it was
taking forever to dry so I got my hair dryer out to speed up the process. It
seemed to be sticking OK so I carried on.
Now it's finished and up on the wall, I
keep looking at it, do I love it or hate it? Is it too girly and not grown up
enough?
I am 99% sure I like it. Taken as a solitary item
yes it is probably a bit twee but as part of the room I think it works.
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