I received a gorgeous mirror last year from my mother in law. What I love about it is the frame work / border, except that it was gold & black and the general colour scheme in my house is silver & black.

So off I went to Builders Warehouse (I love the store!) to pick up some paint, brushes and turps. This was last year but I only got around to doing it this weekend.

Before:

After:

I initially wasn’t happy with the results because paint looks different after it dries. It also looked much better after the second coat.

Now that it’s complete, this is what I should have done differently:

> Used masking tape to make a border on the actual mirror (I didn’t have any, was too lazy to go out and buy some)
> Propped the mirror on a flat surface face up, instead of standing upright.

We live and learn.

After reading this article a few days ago, I decided that I really want to restore old furniture as a hobby. Although, I don’t exactly have old furniture lying around, but will see what I can scout around to upcycle.

I came across this ‘how to make your own duct tape wallet’ last night and just had to make it.

According to the site, you should be able to do it in 30 minutes. It took me about 1hr 15mins. I followed instructions from the Instructables website and this is how I did it, step by step:

Tada: