Rob Czar: Honey, I am home!
Meg Allan Cole: How was your day dear?
Rob Czar: It's well. And your's?
Meg Allan Cole: Oh! You know I sold a few pieces for my independent business. I rewired the lamp in the living room. I performed an art and I made us an Atomic Starburst Mirror.
Rob Czar: That's my girl!
Meg Allan Cole: Hello! And welcome to Decor It yourself, 1950's edition. A few month's ago, I did a ThreadBanger blog post, that was a round up of the cools DIY projects from Apartment Therapy's February Jump-Start contest. Allison's Starburst Mirror was one of the projects, you viewers wanted to see on the show. So here is a tutorial on a 1950's inspired Starburst Mirror.
For this project you will need, one medium sized mirror, eight-inches in diameter and we got it at our local craft store, a piece of cardboard, sixteen 16-inch dowel rods, 16 10-inch bamboo skewers, galvanized wire, a hot glue gun and plenty of glue sticks, a paintbrush and one step liquid leaf, our is pewter, and while my back mirrors in three sizes. We are using 16 large, 32 medium and 32 small.
First using a handmade compass, make a cardboard circle the same size as your mirror. Make it as smooth and smaller because it will be the back piece and you don't want to see it. With the ruler, divide the disk into 16 equal parts like cutting a pie. With your hot glue gun, attach the 16-inch dowels to each line about half an inch up from the center.
Then take the skewers and attach then one-and-a half inches down from the edge in between each dowel to have two different types of lengths coming out from the center. Now you are going to paint both sides of your piece, so you want to elevate it to prevent the paint from sticking to the table's protective paper. Once elevated paint both side with your liquid leaf.
After the entire piece is dry, use your galvanized wire to create a hanging loop by feeding it through two holes in the front and twisting it in the back, then add a couple of drops of hot glue to reinforce the holes.
Next, hot glue your center mirror to the cardboard hiding the dowel end. Now take your little mirrors and glue them on to the front of dowel. Start with the large mirror and glue one to the end of each long dowel.
Next take the medium size mirrors and glue one to the end of each shorter skewer. Now on the long dowel measure down three-inches from the large mirror and glue a medium mirror. Then measure down three-inches from the medium mirror on the shorter skewers and glue one small mirror. Lastly, measure down three-and-a-half inches from the medium mirror on the large dowel and glue on a small mirror.
Repeat until each dowel and skewer has this pattern on it. Hang the wire loop on a nail and, you have your design now to the 50's. And when we return I'll explore more 1950's decor.
Welcome back, now that we have our Atomic 50's style Starburst Mirror, let's see what else we can do to our home to travel back in time. For inspiration, check out Apartment Therapy's article on Mad Man's Mid Century Design.
Some other 50's decor elements are kidney shaped coffee tables, formica dinettes, atomic pattern barkcloth and black and white check floors with red-checkered tablecloth. 1950's Atomic Decor is just one of the design genres that calls out to me. What decades are represented in your home? Send in videos and photos to ThreadBanger. Thanks so much for watching and until next week remember your nest needs you.
Corinee Leigh: Hey, Everyone it's time for a ThreadBanger Contest announcements.
Rob Czar: Our good friends over at Troops were awesome enough to hook us up this with the complete line of Generation T selling supplies. We are talking to DIY kit, tools, iron on you name it. First, read and give away the copies of Megan's new book.
Corinee Leigh: The rules are simple. All you are going to do is send us in a video of you giving your favorite t-shirt reconstruction tutorial. The more creative the better.
Rob Czar: There will be first, second and third place prizes as well and a ton of secondary prizes like sewing kits and ThreadBanger Swags to anyone that submits a video.
Corinee Leigh: You will even have a chance that your video featured on the show.
Rob Czar: This contest runs till July 31st. So burst out those cameras and get those tutorials in and check the ThreadBanger blog for complete details.
Corinee Leigh: Good Luck!
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