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I’m crafty. No, not in the villain-twirling-his-mustache-and-cackling way, but in the someone-else’s-trash-is-my-treasure way.

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So aback my neighbors had a barn sale, I was all over it. I concluded up demography a beat-up, feature mirror off their hands. It was chipped on the edges, so I envisioned fashioning a adorning anatomy as camouflage.

My aboriginal abstraction was to buy copse trim from Home Depot and accept the abundance cut it to the actual lengths and angles so I could artlessly cement them together, acrylic the consistent anatomy and attach it to the mirror.

Before I fabricated it to the store, I begin an old window anatomy abaft the afford in my backyard.

I was admiring to acquisition the mirror was alone one inch best than the anatomy and able-bodied aural the amplitude of the frame.

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Knowing from acquaintance that best bottle adjustment shops will cut odd items for barter at a baby fee, I alleged about for a amount allegory and begin a business bottomward the alley accommodating to do such jobs at $5 a cut. I had them lop an inch off the basal of the mirror.

Now I was accessible to alpha acclimation up the frame. I absitively to do what’s alleged a burst finish, which gives an age-old attending to the allotment while accompanying acceptance for the use of two colors. The abstraction is to acrylic the allotment with a abject coat, about the darker of the two called colors, again administer a bright burst average aloft which a top coat, the additional blush paint, is applied. The burst medium, begin at best art food stores, will dry at a altered amount than the top covering appropriately “cracking” the top coat, acceptance the abject covering to be seen.

I had heard and apprehend Elmer’s cement formed able-bodied as a burst medium. Being abundant cheaper than acceptable mediums, my thrifty ancillary was intrigued. With abstraction in mind, I went to work.

Here are the steps:

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■ Assemble able supplies. I calm my glue, gold paint, white paint, disposable plates to act as acrylic palettes, cardboard towels for assured drips and spills and brushes. I called cream brushes because they would not actualize accomplished curve in my acrylic strokes. I additionally aggregate a acrylic scraper, sanding block, pliers and the frame.

■ Assure assignment environment. I coated my kitchen in bi-weekly to assure the asphalt attic and walls — yes, alike the walls because the appearance and admeasurement of the anatomy appropriate me to prop it adjoin them.

■ Prepare assignment surface. For this blowzy step, I took the anatomy outside. I removed the screen, trim assignment and nails and staples from the anatomy application pliers, again aching off the old acrylic and sanded the allotment down. Afterwards sanding, booty a clammy cardboard anhydrate and clean off the accumulated dust.

■ Analysis technique. Before painting a abject coat, analysis the address on a agnate apparent to see if you like the two colors together. I did so on the aback of my anatomy afterwards already applying the abject covering and created added assignment for myself. I originally corrective the anatomy white, intending to acrylic the top covering gold and accept the white analytical through. But aloft testing the technique, I apparent brownish paints will not crackle. I again had to accommodate my abject covering gold.

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■ Administer abject coat. Thankfully, white acrylic is calmly covered. I corrective it gold.

■ Administer glue. Afterwards the abject covering dries completely, administer the cement as you would paint. A thicker covering of cement will actualize beyond cracks, while a thinner covering will actualize bigger cracks in the top coat.

■ Administer top coat. Do not delay for the cement to dry. Lightly band the top covering aloft the glue. Do not columnist bottomward so as to mix the cement and the acrylic for the top covering or the burst aftereffect will not occur.

■ Let dry. You can either let the allotment air-dry or you can use a draft drier to acceleration up the process. I did a little of both. Be actual accurate at this stage. The apparent ability attending dry but the cement beneath may not be. Mine took about three hours to dry.

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■ Add accents. This footfall is optional. I absitively my anatomy was missing article so I chose a floral architecture to emphasis the piece, application the gold acrylic I had larboard over.

■ Attach anatomy to mirror. Once abating myself the anatomy was absolutely dry, I continued out an old absolute in the barn attic for added and placed the anatomy face bottomward on top of it. I positioned the mirror nearby. I again activated adhesive cement to the aback of the frame, authoritative abiding to centermost the cement curve on the anatomy confined to ensure basal cement seepage. The mirror was again positioned on top of the glue-laden frame. I added weights — books mostly — to the edges of the anatomy and mirror to columnist the mirror assimilate the anatomy and let sit for at atomic 24 hours.

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