Frugalicious mirror

For a long time, I wanted a mirror kind of like this one.

           The problem is, they're pretty expensive. 

One day, I while perusing the spray paint in our local hardware store (I do that. For me, it's a good time.)I spotted this~

Holy guacamole!! Are you kidding me?? A mirror in a can? It was six bucks, and it got the wheels in my brain spinning. I remembered I had this (sorry for the blurry photo. It's the only one I have.)

        It's one of those antique portrait frames with the convex glass. I inherited it. And it was kind of ugly. The glass is scratched on the front, and someone had painted the frame this awful gold color. 

I removed the glass and went to work. I really like the look of an old mirror that's losing it's silvering on the back, so I tried to replicate that look. I gave the mirror a few light coats of the looking glass paint, and then in selected spots, I blasted it with a heavier coat of paint and then blew on it. This is what I got. 

Do you see it? The rough spots? HAH! It worked!
I dry brushed the frame with a few coats of white, off white and gray, and hung it over our piano. 

I really like how it turned out. 

The total cost was about $6.00 for the paint. 

Thanks for reading!