5 Minute Makeover-Light Globe

Since my ETSY shop has apparently finally generated some business with the pallet art, I have been a busy bee! Not sure what happened but I now have 3 regular orders and 2 custom orders in 2 days where before I had a big fat "0". 

Thank you Jesus!  

If you are in the neighborhood, I might just sucker you into helping me build these bad boys!

But this post is supposed to be about a 5 minute makeover so let's get to it baby!

I was at the thrift store today and I saw the coolest light globe ever and the crazy took over and I had to have it.  I actually found two things where the crazy took over but you'll just have to wait for the other one!

It looked like a pine cone to me. If you are seriously doubting ever being friends with me, I get it. This does not make most hearts go a-flutter....but you didn't see the final product!

Looking glass mirror spray paint is my drug of choice. Yes, be very careful. If you inhale it, I am fairly sure you will hallucinate. But aside from that fact, it is so easy to use and the effect is so cool, it gives you a high when you create with it.

 Just look here to see another project that was transformed by mirror paint.

It only took about 3 coats and I just sprayed it inside and then kept rolling the globe over and over between my hands to keep the spray paint from running while it dried. It dries pretty fast but with items that have small openings, you just have to spray it inside and roll. 

 Now my foyer mantle is a hot mess right now so don't look too closely. Not sure that this will be it's final home but for now, I like it with my mercury glass candle sticks that I got at Target for $0.75 for the smalls and $1.00 for the talls.

  Shazam! 

But they do actually need candles. Just haven't gotten that far yet.

My hope, as always when I post, is that you will feel inspired to try new things and never look at things they way they are originally intended. I hope you will look at globes now as art and not just for their functionality.

Am I crazy like cuckoo bananas or crazy like a fox?

You be the judge.

Always being renewed,

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Mirror, Mirror

Please have an intervention soon readers!  I am now about to deface another religious relic!!! This has got to stop I tell ya!

Pretty soon the Pope is going to make a home visit and present me with a supeana to search my house for any other churchy like objects that I might not yet have had the opportunity to mar.

Here is the evidence....

And here are the accomplices....

a bottle of Holy Water (juuuuust kidding), Krylon Looking Glass spray paint, Rustoleum Oil-rubbed Bronze spray paint, 320 grit sand paper, and a paper towel

You already know my MO: Find a religious object and use it for parts! I am like a Chop Shop for Relics! Oh, I can't take the guilt. 

So I am going to confess how I did the dirty deed.  Found the Last Supper print and frame at the Goodwill today for $7.95. The frame is awesome but I needed it to be a mirror and an old, vintagey one at that.

I removed the Last supper print and gently placed it in the trash can face up. I had to return and turn it upside down to hide Christ and all the apostles faces. 

Then I got to work on my glass.

 Spray one thin coat of the Krylon Looking Glass mirror Spray paint on the BACK of the glass

Spray the glass lightly with water

Second coat with the mirror paint

Dab with a paper towel

Sand in a few places lightly

Add 3rd coat of mirror paint

Spray again with water

Spray Oil-rubbed bronze spray paint. Make sure it spits and doesn't spray. Do this by using short bursts.

Add 4th coat of mirror paint

Dab lightly 

The above picture is the back of the glass

Here is the front! 

I know these photos are a bit dark but I do not know how to photograph mirrors and this was the only way I could edit them to show how it turned out. 

I think by layering the mirror glass in between the aging layers is what gives it the right look. I don't think I would have gotten what I wanted if I had done all of the mirror layers and then sanded etc. And you need that first layer of mirror glass before you spray with water so you get more depth as well.

It looks just like another mirror I have that is about 75 years old so I will be using this technique again I am sure. 

Just hopefully not on anything holy for a while.

Don't Forget to check out the Communion Table Shelf and enter to win one of two! The giveaway ends August 28th

Always being renewed,

Please see the link party page to see where I link arms with those blissfully beautiful bloggers that host every week. So gracious they are along with these other sweet ladies!