Finishing the unfinished

  Hello, I'm a project starter and stopper (I need a support group for this)

My goal for 2011 is to finish all my unfinished 2010 projects!

Here's my first finished project ~

I apologize, I thought I took a picture of it before, back 2010, but I didn't. 

 It was brown wood and not attractive at all.

It  had all the carving/scroll details to make into a Trumeau Mirror.

I visited Miss Mustard Seed a few weeks ago

she had a brown mirror similar to my unfinished project...

I was going to paint mine all white ~ until I saw what she did

I loved the blue she used.

Miss Mustard Seed just posted how she did hers...

we seem to have the same steps...check out her great tutorial!

Here's what I did ~
* tape off the mirror - important!

* sand the wood - wipe down w/a tack cloth

* paint all white (left over latex white paint) {this is where I stopped in '10}

* paint in the blue (I used Folk Art Sky Blue)

*stain all the nooks and crannies (I used Folk Art Antiquing Medium)

This was so simple, and the stain is what pulled it all together

 lightly sanded some of the high spots, to give it a little more age

I got this mirror last April at Big Lots

 not sure if they still have them... if you're lucky, maybe

you can find one at a garage sale or Goodwill!