Thriftin’ Time Tuesday

I passed up this framed mirror at least once when I spotted it at the thrift store…the gold was so ugly!  So naturally I thought the $3 was too much….for ugly!  So after picking it up recently, I let it lay around and gather dust….as you can see. I sprayed it one of the new burnished silvers and glazed it with bronze (which looks black) and then highlighted it with champagne gold metallic paint…… Just for fun I centered the dining room fixture in the mirror…sorry, I got side tracked! Most anything is better than that ugly gold….now, mind you, I like gold but just not that shade.  Boy, it is hard to photograph the detail and color on this kind of thing.  And then there is the hand thing….they always get in the way! Sorry, I guess I got carried away with the rabbit ears!  This is a before shot of this frame….just plain gold. Here it is with a little antiquing.  Hard to really tell much in these pictures but it is darker and richer.