My Barbola Mirror–Still A Work In Progress.

My version of a barbola mirror is still not put together, I am biding my time  …….

Marc and I put a great deal of time and effort into the Utee flowers I made using my Meltpot when I recently stayed with him at the Worcester cottage ……..

….. in fact we fair transformed them, from dull and flat to vibrant and polished, using goodness knows how many different paints and finishes, it was such fun.

The metal leaves, taken from several identical necklaces found in charity shops and eBay also received the same treatment.

I was also particularly thrilled with how the rather insignificant metal Craft for Occasion flowers turned out ……..

……. after being painted to an inch of their lives and these, along with the leaves will now remain untouched.

However, on getting home and looking at pictures of original barbola flowers ………

…… I want to try to add a few more colours to the utee flowers to see how they look before committing them permanently to the oval mirror I aim to set them on ……….

…….. just in case an extra subtle paint stroke here and there adds something special.  I have more than enough flowers to experiment with a few, so if it doesn’t work, nothing will be lost, I just need to see ……..

….. and after that and with the purchase of a large tube of E6000 it should be mirrors akimbo ……. fingers crossed!