A new project: Mirror Frame

20170304_194535Walking along the beach one afternoon, I stopped at one of the places people sell things to look at a mirror. It was the perfect color for our guest room, so after visiting it a couple of times, we bought it.

I realized that I could make one of these myself, and since the guy on the beach only made them in orange, I decided to make one for our second guest room that would include some green or blue. We’ve collected shells along the beach for so long that we already had an excellent collection, and I have lots of beach glass from our travels.

 

 

 

 

 

Caminando por la malecon una tarde, vi un espejo con decoracion marino. Los colores fueron perfecto para nuestra habitacion de huespedes. Despues de varios visitas, compre el espejo. Despues me di cuenta que yo podia hacer un espejo de este tipo para nuestra otra habitacion con tonos de verde y azul, mientras en la playa ofrecio solamente anaranjado. Hemos recogido conchas tanto tiempo que los tenemos en cantidad. Tengo vidrio de mar que encuentro durante nuestras viajes.

20170225_155413I had a wide frame made. My experiments with whether or not to paint the background white are visible on my work table on the right. I went out to the beach with a strainer to collect crushed shell for the background.20170304_195936

Pedi un marco amplio. Mis experimentos con el color del fondo estan en la mesa arriba a la derecha. Fui a la playa con una colador a recoger la concha molida para el fondo.

20170225_152658I always think that birds are a good part of any composition.

Siempre pongo algo de pajaros en cualquier proyecto.

Once the design was laid out and I had rearranged it about six times, I moved the pieces aside, painted the background and started to glue the pieces down and add the shell.

Una vez que hice el diseno y lo arregle varias veces, les quite a un lado, pinte el fondo en blanco y empeze pegar los pedazos con cola.

It took a few days for me to work around the frame in sections. Finally, it was done and I stood the frame up. A cascade of leftover shell crumbs rained onto the floor.

Tomo unos dias a trabajar el marco, pegando una parte y despues el siguiente. Al fin, lo complete y lo subi, viendo la concha molida caer como lluvia en el piso. No importa, quedo bastante.

20170303_111457Tonight I’m waiting for the glue to dry on the mirror. I also used screws. Finally, it is all done and the bare spots touched up. Now we’re not sure where to put it…..the spot I’d picked out is behind part of a door and I don’t want to risk breaking the mirror with a bump from a door handle.

Esta noche estuve esperando que la cola seca donde pege el espejo en adicion a los tornillos que puse para juntar el espejo. Ahora, no estamos seguros donde colgar mi obra….el lugar que escogi esta detras de una puerta y tengo miedo que un solo descuido y la manija quebrara el espejo. Estoy contemplando otros espacios.A word of advice. I used materials I already had, including a piece of mirror on a wood frame and paint that was in the shed. Thus the mirror is a bit heavier than it might be, because I didn’t detach the mirror from it’s wood surround–I painted the black edge with green paint. I also used white house paint for the background under the glue and I used teal floor paint around the outside edge of the frame. You can’t see any of this, yet I ended up using paints that required three different solvents (water, paint thinner, epoxy thinner). I didn’t have to buy any of these things, but it was more to clean up.

Un consejo. Utilze materiales en la casa como el espejo que estaba con un marco y la pintura en el deposito. Resulta que el nuevo espejo pesa mas que tal vez pesaria porque no quite el espejo de su marco delgado de madera–pinte la orilla negra con verde. La pintura blanca debajo la concha es para paredes y un verdeazul al orilla externa del marco es para pisos. Nada de eso es muy visible, pero al fin de cuentas necesite tres solventes diferentes (agua, aguaras, y diluente de epoxica). Fue economico en no comprar pintura pero costo mas en limpiar todo al final.

 

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I am a retired archaeologist and I like to travel, especially to places where you can walk along the shore or watch birds. My husband Jonathan and I travel for more than half the year every year, seeing all the places that we haven't gotten to yet.

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