Friday, September 27, 2013

Mirror, mirror...Fantastic Friday project

Hello and Happy Friday!  This week has been particularly busy for me so I thought I'd finish up a project that has been waiting in the wings.  This project happens to include two small round mirrors that I had spray painted awhile back.  I am moving them to another room in the house, so I though I'd change their color to look better in their new place.  One time consuming thing about painting mirrors that you may have already experienced, is its quite tedious to scrape paint off the mirror after the project is finished if they weren't covered properly.  Been there and done that!  It's by no means hard to scrape off but it does add another step to the project that I'd rather avoid.  So here's a simple solution to avoid scraping paint.


Start off by gathering your supplies.  Mine included the two mirrors, painters tape and a craft knife.


 Next, put one strip of tape along the edge of the mirror and push into the edge with your fingernail to make a sharp crease.  Take your craft knife and cut along the crease being careful not to snag an edge & peel up the tape.  After making your cut, carefully peel the excess tape off.




Now you have the tape exactly where you need it so you can easily paint the inside.  Continue this process until you have fully covered the mirrored surface.  In all, it only took me a few minutes start to finish.


Ta-da!  Here's the result!  Now I can move on to painting and hanging and get this project off the to-do list.  

Trisha

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Birthday Bliss



Yesterday I celebrated my birthday!  Well, actually I celebrated last weekend since my birthday happened to fall mid-week this year.  First, my wonderful hubby took me to a Lumineers concert, whom I love.  We then continued the festivities by staying overnight (kid free!) in a downtown Seattle hotel.  Lounging around, swimming, staying up late and sleeping in...pure bliss!  As if all that wasn't enough, my hubby came home from work early yesterday with gifts in hand and told me that he was cooking dinner.  Wahoo!!!  Let's just say I love to bake...anything & everything.  Cooking?  Not so much.  A girl could definitely get used to this treatment!  As soon as my kiddos got home from school, they started making drawings and pictures for my presents and then instructed me to put them on my bedside table so I can see them every morning.  I pretty much had the best birthday ever.  Gettin old doesn't seem quite so bad...

Trisha