Cursing Crafter is a copy cat

Before I get to the makeover stuff, I have to apologize for yesterday's post. I've been having to go in and read the comments on the actual post because they aren't coming to my e-mail all the time.

Anyway, during the process of checking comments, I noticed a bazillion errors in the post and they drive me nuts! I changed most of em, but just now, I noticed that I spelled metal medal. Gah.

I saw this on a blog a long time ago.

And I wanted to do it ever since.

The problem is...I don't remember what blog it was on. I know it was before Christmas last year, so it's been a while, and I know I don't follow that blog.

And that is all I know. Literally.

Our bathrooms always had those plain builder mirrors.

Pay no attention to the fact that it needed a good workout with glass cleaner. I was waiting until all of this was done before I cleaned it:

before the new flooring went down.

flooring's down but we need to reattach the molding. note the two tone towel bar and the only decor i had in there. a picture frame that i put a bunch of prints of the kids in the bath in.

Alright, moving on.

All I needed to frame the mirror was to get some moulding and measure it to fit around the mirror like a picture frame.

I got some moulding that I thought would look nice and I brought it home. Then I called in the big guns.

Meet: My brother.

Okay, so that's just his back, but trust me, that's him. He came over with a fancy schmancy saw of some kind and his nail gun. He measured to fit, cut the 45 degree angles and put it together for me.

Right around this time I lost focus and...

Look!!

It's a helicopter!

standard joke with my brother: look! they found us; run!

Here it is before it's painted and hung. Ignore Little Boy's wheels. No. You can not borrow them.

at this point both my brother and i decided it would be cool to put a big frame on the wall and either a)leave it empty or b)put something cool lookin' in it. we don't know what that would be yet.

Back to the mirror. I didn't get any pictures of us painting the crap out of it so it would be black.

Man.

That moulding really sucks the paint up.

Here's the finished product.

Note the hotwheels soap dispenser. Hey. It's the boys' bathroom, I have to leave some boy stuff in there.

Now, of course I have to do the mirror in my bathroom too. I don't have a before picture, but here it is now.

Cursing Crafter Rating: TCC = Triple Curse Craft. I cussed, brother cussed...it wasn't too bad, but it wasn't too good either. Since I had to call in backups (ie; brother) it's gonna get an extra curse.

I think they both look about 1000 percent better. And all it took was a little moulding, black paint, brother with fancy tools and lots of cursing.

On both our parts.

Oh. And also? When you buy moulding and it says 98 cents? That's not for the entire 10 foot section your buying. That's per foot. Just so you know and don't make a stupid mistake like someone I know who shall remain nameless...