DIY Sunburst Mirror

Sunburst  mirrors are becoming so popular right now. They are in almost every huge catalog out there and you see them in designer magazines. I love the look but not the price tag. So what does a girl do but figure out how to create it on a dime.

I took this sunburst mirror from Ballard Designs for inspiration

 and then googled some amazing sunburst mirrors but fell in love with addicted to decorating tutorial-- I love following her blog and all the amazing projects she creates. I didn't take pictures thru my process and I didn't do exactly how she did it but a break down went sort of like this.

I took an old mirror that had an ugly blue ring around it that I found at goodwill for 2.50 and took the backing off. Then I took the old blue part that I took off and traced onto an old box. This was my frame that I had to work with. I then took my wood shims ( I used two packages $5x2=$10.00) and started hot gluing them all around. The first round you could see some major gaps. So went around and filled in the gaps with row two. I liked the look of all my wood pieces being even and I also liked how it wasn't so pushed together so I stopped at two rows. I then glued my mirror on to the wood with hot glue. My mirror was not that heavy just HUGE. So I also hot glued a pop can top to the back for my hanger.

When my husband comes home normally his reaction to the messy floor and crazy craft table is what did you start today? and how much money have you spent? However, when he came home and seen a giant mirror with wood everywhere covering our whole floor he said, "wow honey that looks super cool" I couldn't believe he actually liked it and commented on it before I had to ask what he thought. I love it in our room and think its perfect. So instead of paying the $350.00 from Ballard Designs I paid 12.50 and I think my mirror looks way better anyway. :-)