Subway Art Mirror

I found this mirror at Ace Hardware back in their clearance section one day. 

It was a little banged up, but I saw some potential. Plus it was only a couple dollars. Who could resist that? I figured I could paint it at the very least. 

Ace also had their Paint Pods (samples of paint) on sale for 50 cents! They're usually $3-$4, so that was quite a savings! I removed the mirror from the frame and painted the frame a blueish color. I got too excited and didn't take a picture of the mirror just painted, but you can still see the paint color below. :-)

I've been wanting to try out Mod Podge (can't believe I've never used it before!), so this seemed like the perfect project to try it out.

I printed out the different words for the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) in different fonts I found on dafont.com. 

I cut out the words and put them together on the mirror frame like a puzzle (once the paint was dry of course). Some of the words had to be cut into several pieces which added to the look of the mirror. I used the Mod Podge to adhere the words to the frame and then did a layer of it over the words to seal them to the frame.

It was a great first time experience with Mod Podge, and I'm sure I'll be using it again!

I'm having a blast at these lovely linking parties. 

To Go With A "Whiteboard"

One of the first projects I've tried after finding the craft blogging community was a "whiteboard" of sorts. I saw the original here at things for boys. Here's her version:

My version is below:

I wanted to add something to keep the dry erase marker attached to the board, so I followed the tutorial here at Michael Ann Made for making a friendship bracelet. I made it about 14 inches long and attached it to the back of the frame simply with some tape. I tied the end to the marker lid with a nice little bow and that was that!