Remember this post? Well, believe me, I haven’t forgotten that list!

Well, I’ve finally finished one of the projects. In fact, in doing so I’ve crossed another off the list as well. I had these mirror frames to make, and I was going to put some art on the bathroom wall. Well, it occurred to me when I was trying to work out where to put the mirrors, that they’d look good on the bathroom wall. Two birds with one stone, as they say.

Now, the idea behind the mirror frames came from having some leftover round mirrors. I also had some circles of mdf that I didn’t use in the original circular mirror decoration idea, so I figured I’d use them as bases for frames on the leftover mirrors. But how to decorate the frames? Well, I’ve always loved those big starburst mirrors in home decorating magazines. What did I have that could form a starburst pattern?

Lots of things, it turned out.

I had wooden pegs. (These are constantly handy, for weaving, for when a metal clamp is too savage…)

I also had heaps of those wooden corner filler thingos you get with stretched canvasses.

And chopsticks, because if we bring takeaway home we tend to use our plastic ones. Though I didn’t have enough chopsticks, so I put out a request to friends in order to form a decent starburst. (Thanks everyone!) The ones with the square ends just begged to have little circular mirrors on the ends, and I also just happened to have a leftover pack of those, too.

All I needed to buy was Liquid Nails and white gloss enamel paint.

Here they are up on the bathroom wall:

As I’ve ticked two projects off the list, I’ve manage to come up with another:

During a resort of some boxes of ornaments, I discovered that I’ve managed to collect quite a few miniature jars, bottles, vases and baskets over the years. Many of them because they were cheap souvenirs when I was a child, and because they don’t take up much room in your suitcase, and… well… I used to have a bit of a love for miniature things. I want to display them, but how? When I saw this divided box at Riot last Saturday I knew it was the perfect display cabinet – painted or stained and varnished, and fixed onto the wall rather than lying flat.

But I still have all those 2010 Projects to tackle, so it might be a while before I get my Mini Vessel Cabinet up on the wall.