My Mirror is Wearing a Necklace!

Remember this mirror that I nabbed from my sister's garage sale stuff. There was nothing really terrible about it, but it wasn't my style. Luckily, the metal part screwed off. However, the frame looked a little wimpy then, so I wanted to bulk it up. I got some moulding (crown moulding because that just ended up being what I liked best) and made a frame to fit inside the original one. I just hot-glued it down which is not the best adhesive for this, but it's what I had.

Looks pretty good, huh?

Well, upon closer inspection, you can see that I had to do quite a bit of filling with wood putty to make those corners look half-way decent. They were still a little rough, but I don't really care.

And then I decided I wanted to add a little bead detail. So, I glued on plastic bead necklaces. Yes. I said plastic bead necklaces. Isn't this just a lovely look!?

Up close. How beautiful!

There. That's better. I spray painted the whole thing with oil-rubbed bronze paint which is just a shade different than black. She's looking better by the minute!

Then I added just a little tiny bit of silverish/goldish metallic paint onto the beads. And this is the final result. It turned out pretty much how I wanted and I'm thrilled that I only had to spend $6.00 on moulding to get a "new" mirror. It's hanging in my kitchen now and the mirror I had there before has been relocated to my entry.