beauty in broken reflections

So, recently I posted about my new favorite DIY creation~ the fabric rosettes! Aren't they awesome?! Well a few weeks ago on Pinnie, I saw someone border a mirror with some paper flowers. It was adorable! She had previously painted the wooden frame of her full length mirror a color that she no longer  loved.

Light bulb moment! My husband has an old, stickered, dirty full length frame that was recently broken in our PCS move from Connecticut to Washington. We need a new frame in our bedroom anyway, so I decided to go to work.

I started with a broken frame:

Ignore that gorgeous girl in the reflection.
Focus on the lower right corner. ;) 

Well... I didn't move that frame right away. I realized that to frame this one in flowers, I would need many, many flowers. So I got to work. Once I had enough (over 100), I needed to first line the edges and fill the broken corner some how. 

How did I do it? Cardboard and duct tape: two things that most households have. I find that I use these two often for my projects (more to come on that later). 

I cut a fitting piece of cardboard behind the broken corner, and taped all edges of the frame with white duct tape. Here's the idea: 

My husband's "man chair" is in the reflection,
 and that's Shadow with his blanket on the couch.

To make ALL the flowers, I used:

- 2 old white pillow cases, cut into strips two feet long and two inches wide

- 5 pieces of old white satin ribbon

- 1 large bag of hot glue sticks and my handy dandy glue gun

Note: when this project was finally finished, I had run out of ammo for my gun. Talk about vulnerability! 

Next step: flower that frame! I used more hot glue for the process. Simply dab a dot of glue on the tape, and add flowers. Add flowers one or two drops of glue at a time, because as you know the glue dries quickly. I filled in the cardboard corner and did the same for the opposite top left corner for aesthetics. 

Hope you're inspired! It's worth it to look at your bedroom mirror and be able to say, "you are beautiful." You are! 

...adoring all things beautiful