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i have been enjoying so many blogs over the past months being inspired and challenged and realizing i have not done mine justice. i mean really, who wants to read about my happenings and projects and silly things going on...okay, probably my parents and extended family that we don't get to see often enough! it made me think, who am i writing this for? i guess my blog is a good way for me to express myself and share a little bit about my life and if you gleam some inspiration from it...fabulous!

i have been very busy with home projects and decorating on a small budget that i wanted to share. so here's a project we recently finished...i have really wanted to frame our gigantic mirror in the hall bathroom...it is literally the entire length of the wall, if you wanted to hide, not going to happen in this room :)

so, here's the before...one big mirror!

i went to lowes to get materials... 3 12 foot sections of baseboard (measure for your size), i went for the 5" since the mirror is so big. some black spray paint (i love spray paint...my neighbor's could tell you), liquid nails for MIRRORS (made a small mistake the first try...oops). we already had the caulking gun but bought a small miter box that came with a saw to make the 45 degree angle cuts.

paint the boards and let dry...it's important to paint a little of the back side since you will see it in the reflection :) time to hang, generously apply the liguid nails, not too close to the inside or again the reflection will show! align just right and stick on. we used thick masking tape to hold in place so we could attach the other pieces and let it dry over night before removing the tape.

so, what do you think? i love the way it turned out and can not wait to finish decorating this room, but that's a whole other project!

all in all this project cost about $40 which includes the miter box and saw that i now own for other priojects, and extra materials for framing our master bath mirrors!!

can't wait to show you all my biggest furniture redo i just finished...coming soon!