86th Power of Paint Party… Sunbursting

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I FINALLY made a sunburst mirror!

I’ve been wanting to make one for ages… so when I scored a 12” mirror for 50 cents at a garage sale a few weeks back, I knew I was ready to roll. (I actually found 2, so I think another sunburst is in my future).

A year ago I blogged about the 3 bamboo bundles that my parents brought me.  You can read about it HERE.  I only needed a fraction of one of these bundles for my mirror.

I used a wire cutter to chop out about 20 rows of bamboo.

Then I cut each of the bamboos into varies lengths with a pruning shear.

They each got 2 coats of white spray paint.

Then I used the trusty glue gun to attach each of the bamboo sticks.

1 1/2 glue sticks later and I was ready to hang this big boy.  And the more I looked at it, the more I was thinking… It’s too big!  I’ve got long arms, but I wasn’t sure how I was going to reach the center of the mirror to get it off the carpet, let alone to hang this beast.

And that’s when it happened!  I thought I had it attached.  I walked away and heard a crash!

Apparently it wasn’t attached!  OOPS!

After walking away for a few minutes (too cool down and clear my head) I decided that I’d give my mirror a little trim.  I cut down the longer bamboo sticks, keeping them all at random lengths.

With the shorter sticks I was able to make sure it was attached to the nail properly.

Love it!

With all the pain this baby caused (I tripped and landed on a hammer hanging this bad boy) it was definitely worth it!

So what have you been painting???

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