So did you link up with Jane or Bailey or Keri last week for the Kitchen Event? I linked up my Indoor Smores… MMmmmmm…. Wonder if I won an award?
The Bloggy Olympics, Week 3: Paint is here!
Along with a really fun giveaway {so read the ENTIRE post so you can get down to the bottom for the details…}
Make sure and go visit my Olympic Star teammates,
Cassie from
and
Katie from
They, my friends, are the real pros…
Apparently, I’m still in training…
And these boys… they be UGLY.
Bleepin’ UGLY.
Seriously…
Monstrously…
UGG. LEE.
And they are weeping hysterically because they got stuck with me.
And, by the way, how exactly do you paint Plastic Mirrors? If you’re ridiculously intelligent, you’ll just spray paint them.
I leave you to read the post and deduce my IQ.
Start with some High Adhesive Primer.
No, scratch that… Start by sanding… then prime.
Now, that is already an improvement…
That, however, is NOT. What paint did I use exactly, you ask?
This one.. or two or three or four…
or Five.
Had to call in the Cavalry to rescue me…
Except this cavalry musta been a bit tired and worn out…
Because things didn’t go quite as planned…
It wasn’t as forgiving as it has been in the past… Maybe it was mad at me for leaving it unattended in the scorching summer heat of the garage…
Oh, well.. It’s still better with the Glaze anyway…
So, break out your UGLY mirrors, and get your Paint on this week. Then come back for the party Next Thursday night… 8PM EST. I’ll have the other one ready and hopefully installed in their rightful and glorious places…
And if all you have are pretty ones, you can just paint any ole thing and link it up… that’s alrighty by me.
Now for the fantastic Giveaway!
Plaid is so awesomely giving away a 5 color assortment of Martha Stewart paint,
and 5 colors of FolkArt Extreme glitter.
Oh, the fun you could have with all of those…
Want it? Leave a comment to enter!
And tell alla yo’ friends!
The winner will be announced June 30th.
So, get to it…
And receive my Printables for FREE!
Of course she was mad – you stuck her ugly self in the garage! Glad to see you put some lipstick on her so she can go out and party – better lock your doors so she doesn’t get any ideas!
Kelly
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Ha! Poor girl! Her lipstick is a bit splotchy in places, but no doubt, she’d try to find a good party!
Doors locked. But I can’t promise there won’t be a party goin’ on inside…
ooo the color is pretty though! and you my friend are ballsy to just tape it off and paint it!
way to be bold. i screwed off my mirror and set it aside to spray paint it yellow. but in my defense the spray paint is all splotchy and awful b/c i was just going to use the frame for the photobooth prop at our wedding. i think i’ll go back and refinish it & hang it in the house!
this bloggy olympics is fun!
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Oh, I thought about unscrewing all those screws… and just thinking about it made me tired! Let’s hope the mess I did make will come off… it usually does!
Go spray another coat on that baby! It will help… I usually have to do several if I’m just spraying.
I have a mirror that I am putting up today. I am going to spray it and copy you…oh sometimes the stars align. Love it!
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Can’t wait to see it! I shoulda sprayed this one… Lesson learned. I’ve spray painted about fifteen things this week, and dern it, if it isn’t sooooo much easier!!!
I’m a bit late to the Bloggy Olympics, but I’ll be checking back for sure! I love the turquoise!
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Thanks Jennifer! You’re not too late! Get your Bold on and join us!!
Love the colour and it looks so fresh and modern now.Don’t you love a project when the primer is already an improvement? I’m visiting from Cassie’s Primitive and Proper and I will be back to link up a project. I also peeked around and I’m now following you.
Thanks Elizabeth! I’m so glad you dropped by from Cassie’s! That girl is just lovely!
I’m so glad you’ll be linkin’ up! Thanks for following… that’s really sweet!
Nice color. Put that color on something, instant beauty! Hmmm….what can I paint? Do I get extra points for painting in super hot weather?
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Oh, yes… 10,000 extra points! It’s actually been so nice here, I’m afraid even talking about it will jinx it!
wow! lovely renovation! I’m feeling a bit boring that I’m doing everything in egg shell white now… maybe I should see about accent colours once I’m done!
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Oh, Roanna! Yes, add some pops of color! That would be so much fun…
You know I love that color! A little glazing is pretty…wonder what else you did to them?? If I have an internet connection where I am next Thursday, I’ll be linking something up for sure
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OH, I hope you have connection! The glaze is makin it a bit iradescent. I’m going to have to live with it and see if I like it or not… but it is a HUGE improvement, dontcha think?
You crack me up, Gwen! And I would totally LOVE to win that stash of paint … I’ve got tons of mirrors and things that must be related to your poor previously homely mirrors
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Ha! Thanks, Keri! Maybe I’ll just enter anonymously and make myself win…
Too bad I’m not a cheater! Dern it!
very cool…paint on plastic…we paint plasitc at work a lot…so i’ve learned a thing or two about that…scotch brite works great for scuffing the surface so does primer for plastic…it makes it really stick…no mirrors to paint…do have other things that definitely could us some help…would love to try MS’s paints…
Thanks for the tips! Next time I’ll try that primer for plastic. So far the primer I used did the trick…so thank goodness! The glaze…hmmm… we’ll see! But I’ve loved it on everything else I ‘ve done. I’m sure it’s just the heat!
She’s all glammed up now so maybe she’ll forgive you for the hot garage.
FYI- chalk paint works on those old plastic things.
I’m waiting to see where you’re going to hang these girls…is glamour girl going on an orange wall perhaps?
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Let’s hope! I thought about the chalk paint, but was a bit worried b/c I waited till the last minute to do this! No time for a re-do, yo. UGH!
I think I know where they are going, but the big kahoona is sick and if I catch it, I”m SOL. NOOOOOOO!!!!!
I love the mirrors now! They’d look great in my bold dining room.
And I’d love to win paint!
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Thanks, Starr! Oooo… I want to see your blod dining room… I’m popping over right now!
Do you have it on your blog? I couldn’t find it! If so, can you send me the link?
You totally rocked those funky plastic mirrors! Love that color! It makes everything look good! Can’t wait to see where you put ‘em!
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Ha! Thanks, Katie! Morgan is sick, and he is in the way to where I want to put them! What a bummer… He’d better get well, or I’m going to have to stand on his head and hang them up.
Secretly I hope they ended up done in your pear green with a bit of white.
~Bliss~
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Ha! They just might, still! A friend just gave me some teal/green fabric and i”m going to use it to upholster the Truss… Maybe the mirrors would be better in Green…
I think it came out great!!! LOVE the color and the glaze! Oh and fingers crossed, I love me some MS paint!!!!
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Thanks, Ali! The glaze really is splotchy, but I decided to hold off until I could see it hung up… I reeeeeally don’t want to have to redo it! That would tots suck…
Miss Ugly looks sooo much better in her turquoise and silver. I just painted a mirror with some gold MS glaze. My glaze was doing some weird stuff too…I wonder if it is the heat??? I’ll link the mirror on Thursday. Have a BOLD weekend!
Thanks, girl! Maybe it is the heat! It’s been fine on my other projects… I should keep it inside, I guess…
Can’t wait to see your mirror!!!
Love the new look! You totally turned the ugly duckling into a beautiful swan. Have a great weekend!
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Thanks, Rachelle! I’ve got one more to do, so I had better get busy… Time is flying by and I can’t keep up with it!
Gwen, you Go Bold! so well. Love that dramatic change!! Perfect shade too. LOL
I have a few frames to paint, but I am fresh out of mirrors. Maybe I need to go shopping??? I can always can use an excuse to do that =)
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Oh, yes… any dern excuse to shop! I have lots of frames, too just sitting there waiting for me to get my rear in gear…
Wow! Ugly is right! I always pass on plastic frames but, no more! Esp if I win all that paint! I also buy those garage cans of paint at yard sales….sometimes it’s a bust. Yours looks cool! Can’t believe it! Nice job! Think I’ll head out to yard sale!
Thanks so much, Terri! I usually pass on Plastic, too, but I have to say, never again! Paint can really do amazing things, yo!
Mirrors are awesome and I would love to win the paint.
Thank you Kathy! Good luck!
I don’t have a blog but I love what u did on yours and would love to Win the paint. Actually, I’d love to win anything.
Thank you so much, Vicki! I appreciate your stopping by and entering!
I do love the color that you used, so bold and fun! I’m stoked for this event, now to choose my painting project. I can’t wait for the link up. And… {{crossing my fingers for the paint!}}
~ Terrie
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Thanks, Terrie! This is going to be such a fun event! I am so excited that you are participating, yo!
Fingers crossed!!!
I love the final product! The color(s) are pretty cool! and that was an amazing improvement! because they were UGLY indeed…I was wondering for a sec if they were real wood or plastic pretend wood or laminated stuff, LOL….They are B E A U tiful now! =0)
Thank you, Lizy! OMGSH… SOOOOOOOOO UGLY! Totally plastico…
Hi Gwen, I painted almost the exact mirror {bought at the thrift store} almost the exact color! Wow! I used it at my granddaughter’s tea party outside. {There’s a link on my sidebar if you want to see it.} I guess we really are kindred spirits. ANYWHO, you won the giveaway on my blog for the scrapbooking software. Congrats! I will let them know I did the drawing & then I’ll be sending you instructions {or they will – I’m not sure} on how to download your software.
Warmly, MIchelle
Hey Michelle! I couldn’t find that link, but I would LOVE to see it! I’m so excited about the giveaway!!! Yay!!!
I am a newbie to the painting world. But, I love what you have done with the mirrors and would love to win some paint.
Thanks, Robin! Just dive right in… it’s all trial and error… (at least, in my case!)
Good Luck!!!
FAB makeover Gwen! I’m always down to win some paint =) xo
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Thanks, Caroline!!!
Winning paint is awesome… wish I could enter myself! ha!
I couldn’t remember if I stopped and read and commented in my head or really commented. And dang girl…I am not reading 42 comments to see if I am one of them. It’s a happening place! But. here’s my comment. Yo!
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I don’t know either… my head is spinning, but that might be from the stomach virus… ugh!
Thanks fo’ yo’ comment, yo.
it looks so pretty!!! you know i love that color!
and woo hoo! i am back- sorta…. tomorrow heading from knoxville all the way back home.
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Why, Thank you, my friend. The color is quite amazing, and I hauled it into my bedroom, and THANK GOD IT WORKS. But I’m still stumped on the headboard. A friend just gave me some fabric and I’m going to be able to use it to upholster the headboard! OH, I’ll email you later.. no one else want to hear all of this!
Yo! G-dawg! WELL DONE on your BOLD-ly painted mirror! I can’t wait to see the other one and where you put them! Your timing for this event could not have been more perfect since I FINALLY finished the cabinet that I started back in FEBRUARY. Yep, that’s right, 4 months ago. Gosh, now that it’s in the bedroom, the hallway looks SOOO much more spacious! Now that I see your rockin’ glaze, I may have to undo the whole thing, haul it back out into the hallway, and get some to do a little “bling”. On second thought, maybe I’ll find a mirror. Thanks for the inspiration and for my ROCKIN new blog! xo
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ha! Thanks, girl!!! You sound like me! I have projects that have been “under construction” for too long!
I have 8 chairs and a long, low, dresser to paint and get out of the garage before the snow flies or its gonna be a long winter scraping the ice from my car! Of course it’s going to be 100 degrees here Thursday. Literally, not kidding..that’s the forecast! Of course I do realize that the forecast really means nothing and it COULD snow Thursday because that’s about how accurate they are! Seriously, though, I’ve got time, right? I mean before the snow!? I keep telling my car to think of being parked on the driveway overnight as being at “summer camp”. xo
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Oh, my gosh, you are too funny! My car has been to spring camp, summer camp, fall camp and winter camp! It’s forgotten what being in the garage is like!
Spray paint schmay paint. I LOVE that color!
Thanks, Kelly! I love spray paint, but, alas, the colors are limited…
wow..that mirror is now a beautiful addition anywhere!!
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Thanks, girl! If you don’t look too close, it did turn out pretty good… (just don’t look too close)
Love the transformation and the color is beautiful! I just finished some projects with Martha Stewart Metallic paints, oh I would love to try those pretty colors. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you Kathy! I love MS Metallic paints! I wish I could enter my own giveaway!
Those paints look fun!!! I love the way the mirror turned out.
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Thanks so much, Rasonda! I’ve never used the glitter paint, but I do love me some bling!
I am working on a mirror for our bathroom using ASCP….will post pics on Thursday : o ) Oh, and I am always up for some paint!!
Oh, I can’t wait to see your mirror! I have never used ASCP… but I hear it is magical!
You did great with that ugly duckling of a mirror!
Thanks, Korrie! It was pretty quacky, wasn’t it?
Love them…especially the color! We must be sharin’ the same brain cuz I just painted my LR mirror a similar color
You know next time I see an item I want with an oddly high price I’m gonna ask about it. It never dawned on me that people might switch stuff around!!
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Thanks, Bella! I can’t wait to see yours! It never occured to me that people switch tags, either… I guess I”m just hyper-honest… Sometimes I wish I had more of the mind of a criminal. hahaha…
Girl! I never would have had the vision to even pick that piece up. AWESOME!
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Thanks, Jane! I’m getting bolder day by day…
I love it! What a fabulous transformation, and that color is gorgeous!!
Thank you so much, McKae! Thank goodness it works in the bedroom.. I was worried!
Great color…but I’m really not much of a painter. I think I have posted maybe twice about things I have painted and they both were Annie Sloan Old White. Not very adventurous! Maybe I can come up with something though…I’ve wanted to make my own chalk paint so maybe this is my calling!
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Go for it, Ann! I’ve only done it once, but it worked really well!
Hi Gwen,
Your mirror turned out gorgeous!
I’d love to be including in your paint giveaway.
Dee
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Thanks, Dee! You have absolutely been included. For sure!
I want to win
I shared on FB 
I want to win, too. boo.
Thanks so much, Debbie!!!
I will put paint on anything! And I’d love to try these!!
Thanks!
Jamie
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Ha! Me, too!
I’d like to paint the dog, but he won’t stay still…
I’m about to spruce up and transform some old frames into gorgeous chalkboards, so the giveaway would come in very handy! : ) Love your mirrors…amazing what a lil paint can do!
mirror looks lovely now
great job
I love how your mirror turned out! I think it is super cute!
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Great super Rocking Job on that Mirror! WOW! Looking great!! Thanks for the Giveaway!!
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Oh, how I would LOVE this!!
such a pretty blue! I love the oops paint pile.
came back to this post after seeing the one with both mirrors hanging…the two different mirrors look great flanking the bed and obviously 
your IQ is tops for thinking to stick another mirror at the bottom of shorty to balance them out!
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I saw the photo of them up in the room and I think they look great! I haven’t seen this brand of spray paint before. I want to win!
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That mirror still looks pretty good to me. Guess Martha Stewart’s glaze is pretty good stuff. I’ve never seen anything painted with this line, but she doesn’t put her name on things lightly. What things could I make beautiful with all those winnings??? Sure hope I get to find out! BTW, just found your blog throught Hating Martha (how ironic is that?) – new follower.
Janet
So Beautiful! Love this mirror!!! And would Love to win the cool paints!
The mirror is so pretty! And yes i would like to win those paints
Better late than never, aye? looks great! I even like the grey looking primer color
JoAnn
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