A Crafty Week

I need to get better at this Post Title thing, I am clearly really awful at it.  Creativity will hit me at some point and I promise they will get better!

Anyways, onto the meaning behind the title..Ever since we purchased the condo I have wanted to be hang things up that meant something and not just a picture bought at a store.  So thats what I did this past week.

My Inspirations:

http://theletteredcottage.net/diy-mirror

http://pinterest.com/pin/104694168/

Sunburst mirrors have been all over the blog land, magazines and Pinterest, so I had to try to make one myself.  I like instant gratification and I thought this would just take a Sunday and by Sunday night it would be hanging on my wall, wow was I wrong.

We went to Lowes last saturday and picked up the wood shims and stain, and then went to Michaels and got the craft rings and a 5" mirror.  I originally planned on putting the mirror together and then sanding but after looking more into it I decided I would stain then first.  So Sunday, thats what I did..

Stained one side and waaaaittteeeddd for what seemed to be forever and then stained the other side.  By the time both sides were stained it had already been five hours and I didn't even start till around noon.

After getting all the stained pieces inside, I started gluing them onto the craft rings, following @kates tutorial.  This is where my impatience took over and I didn't read the back of the liquid nails tube and well i had to glue the shims back on because they all started to move when i put the next layer on.  By the end of Sunday the mirror had looked like this

I decided i should allow the glue to set for 24 hours, like the instructions said.  With things to do Monday and Tuesday I had to wait till Wednesday to glue the last two layers on and then Thursday we glued the mirror on and let it sit another 24 hours.

By Saturday, just in time for a party I was having(which I will definitely talk about later), the mirror was ready to be hung.We just put an anchor in the wall and hung it by the smaller ring... lets hope this is enough!

Here it is in the hallway when you enter the condo.

I had tons of compliments on the mirror during the party, which means it must not look too bad for one of my first big craft projects.  Next up... the cinnamon wreath!