The words that are around the edges are thier favorite things put in with small nails. Knowing that everyone's favorite things change every year I put the year in Roman Numerals on the corners. After that was done I still felt like it needed something else. Kristen then came up with the idea of adding the gold highlights in a swirly pattern. It's hard to see in this picture but those are around thier names.Mirror
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I'm trying to post the items I've made recently in order of when I made them. This is a mirror the Kristen and I made for some friends. From the beginning I wanted to make something special. I'd made one other mirror (which is hanging in our entry way) so I knew a thing or two about how to do it. This time though I wanted everything to be as perfect as possible...even the dimensions. The dimensions are this mirror follow the Golden Ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio). Ok, so that's not as easy as it sounds. Normally the corners of a frame are 45 degrees. That means the wood all the way around can be the same size and there are no worries. This created a problem though. If I made the angle 45 degrees then either the outside rectangle or the inside rectangle could be the Golden Ratio...but not both. So it took a bit of calculating but I was able to find the angle such that both the inside and the outside rectangles of the frame follow the Golden Ratio. Doing that forced me to made the sides thinner than the top and bottom. It was a huge pain to construct but I'm really glad I did it this way.
The words that are around the edges are thier favorite things put in with small nails. Knowing that everyone's favorite things change every year I put the year in Roman Numerals on the corners. After that was done I still felt like it needed something else. Kristen then came up with the idea of adding the gold highlights in a swirly pattern. It's hard to see in this picture but those are around thier names.
This was one of the most enjoyable projects I've ever worked on.
The words that are around the edges are thier favorite things put in with small nails. Knowing that everyone's favorite things change every year I put the year in Roman Numerals on the corners. After that was done I still felt like it needed something else. Kristen then came up with the idea of adding the gold highlights in a swirly pattern. It's hard to see in this picture but those are around thier names.
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