Pottery Barn Knock-Off. (That tooks me ages to finish)

So...do any of y'all read the blog Sew Dang Cute? If you don't, you really should check it out.  Tam hosts a contest called Crafting with the Stars and it is so cool to see all the projects that these awesome bloggers make. Then they debut them and we all vote! It's fabulous.

So...I saw a PB knock-off made my Mandi from Tidbits from the Tremaynes and FELL IN LOVE.  Seriously, it was the best thing I'd ever feasted my eyes on besides sliced bread.  Okay, I might be exaggerating a tiny bit. But still, it's awesome.

Here is Pottery Barn's mirror for just $699.  NO, not six dollars and 99.  SIX HUNDRED and 99.  PSSSHHH...Pottery Barn, kiss my...lips.  Because I LOVE you Pottery Barn, but you see, I WILL NEVER pay that much for a mirror unless I win the lottery. (Which I do not play...)

 

Isn't this beautiful!!??  I knew I had to have one (although I didn't have a place to put it just yet) but I made my way to the Dollar Tree to pick up the mirrors anyway. I then headed to The Home Depot to get the trim and found the frame for the outside of the mirror at Goodwill for five bucks!

I used the tutorial Mandi posted on her site (you can find it here!) 

Here is my version:

 I found the frame from Goodwill for 5 bucks!  It JUST SO HAPPENED to be the right size for my mirrors. Is that not awesome or what?!  Pottery Barn's version of this mirror is brown, but I decided on white because it matched my decor better.

 The frame was brown to begin with, and I was going to add more coats but decided I liked the brown coming through a little.  It looks somewhat funky in the photo, but looks a lot better in person. 

 See that bench?  That was our "wedding guestbook".  Instead of having an actual book, we had our friends and family sign this bench and now we can have it displayed in our home forever! :) I love it.

Although I love the way this mirror turned out, it took me SO long to make and I wanted to pull my hair out.  Here is why:

When I  got the trim from The Home Depot, it was like 12 feet tall to begin with. 

I asked the worker man if he could cut it up for me in certain measurements and he said "Yes sure, but after the first two cuts, it'll cost you $1/cut." 

WHAT?!?!?! There was no way I was going to pay him 1 dollar for each cut. 

So I kindly thanked him, took my 12' trim and went on my way.  

Not to self: You can cut the trim in the store to however much you need. You don't have to buy all 12' of it.  But I didn't know that..and bought all of it.  Next time I'll know.

Anyway...

All I have at home is a hand saw.  

You know, like this one:

{I bet you can guess what I will say next.}

Yep.  I cut the trim, with that dinky hand saw...and it took me forever.  FOREVER.  I had to cut like 20 small pieces..that doesn't sound like a whole lot, but with a hand saw (and an impatient girl like me) it was
NOT
FUN.

But i did it! :)  Yay me.

I am asking for a big girl saw for Christmas.  One like this:

If I had that baby, I would have been done in .5 seconds.  But instead it took me HOURS.

Okay, I promise I'm done complaining now. I love the way it turned out even if I did whine a little throughout the process.

If you want to make one of these beauties, go see Mandi's tutorial here. She is awesome and has so many great projects.

Thanks Pottery Barn, for having so many wonderful ideas that we can make ourselves! 


-Kait

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