How to make a shell mirror ~ DIY seashell mirror ~ Coastal Home Decor Ideas from thrift store mirror

[Music] [Music] okay i've done a lot of talking about crafts and things that i might do with some of the shelves that i have collected so i figured it was time to start the mirror project it took me a while to find this mirror they're kind of expensive we have a lot of thrift stores down here so there's no reason i wouldn't be able to find one in the thrift store that fit on the wall that i wanted to hang it so i did manage to find this what it is though is it's got some porcelain tile that's been cracked and kind of put onto the frame i'm gonna just put the shells on top of it i'm just gonna glue right over it and what i'm thinking is i'm going to take scallops and cover it as much as i can as a base to try to cover the blue because that's going to drive me crazy and i figured i can't paint it because then i'm relying on the paint to stick to the glue to stick to the shell so i'm just going to glue directly on here um but before i quite get into the technique the reason i've been keeping the kind of broken shells is for for this very reason to go onto a project like this like i have this beautiful moon snail i mean it's it's stunning but it's all chipped and that it's just me yeah look everybody does their thing but that just bothers me but wouldn't it be wonderful if i could use it in some sort of craft and kind of cover that so i don't know if i'm going to be able to actually use this one these are the scallops that i'm going to try to lay down when i went to santa belle that's i went because i wanted to get scallops so i can lay down a layer underneath and then glue on top of that and then i have been collecting for a while just shows that are broken i mean i saw this crown con come on what about crazy but it is kind of pitted it does it's not perfect i mean i guess i you know i could sell it but we'll see if it can make it into this project so these are all shells that i've deemed to be somehow inferior um they're faded they're chipped they're not completely whole they're missing pieces or maybe i just decided like this channel duck clam there's nothing wrong with it but they're pretty much all over the place so it can be you know this one doesn't need to be or that one doesn't need to be damaged in order for me to use it i have a problem putting glue on perfect show so if there's a shell that looks fantastic actually this nutmeg actually looks pretty fantastic but you know he's got a i don't know there's actually nothing wrong with that nutmeg so maybe i won't put them on i'm a nut but this one okay so you have here you see how that's you're going to got that that chipped area there so that's something that i would prefer to use on a type of craft and then there's yeah this is not like the best apple mirrors i've ever seen wrong with it but it's not perfect so these are the kind of shells that i can bring myself to put glue on them even this gotti nautica but its color is almost completely gone so that's what i've been putting these shells to the side for then i have my palette of scallops and so i'm just going to kind of see how this works and i'll get started and yeah i'll be coming back and giving you a progress update and one other i forgot to mention i'm using e6000 flexible paintable white glue industrial strength glue so i'll let you know what i think of this good thing i got that newspaper down i'll let you know how this works out as we're going along as well [Music] okay for the most part i've got the entire frame covered with the scallops and i'm going to go back in and just kind of place the other shelves the other quote unquote not perfect shells in areas around the frame to kind of fill in the blue part because that's what i'm trying to do i'm trying to make sure that i can't see that blue part plus i really really like the way that that layered shells look kind of like all jumbled together so i want to start on that and we'll see what that looks like [Music] [Music] all right what i have decided is i'm going to start putting actually these bigger pieces on the bigger shelves i'm going to glue those on first and then go back and fill in all the little areas because doing it the opposite way i don't think it's going to work so great for me so i'm still at it i'll we'll see how the progress goes okay i'm really happy with the way this is coming out i've pretty much finished this corner and you can kind of see because we don't see any blue so there's no blue kind of down here but around this corner we start seeing that the tile peek through again you can kind of kind of see a little bit of it so i am going to completely cover all the blue like i said really happy with the way this is working out and once this is you know hung at the last look i'm going to give you i'm going to finish this i'm going to install it and then we'll see what the final product looks like so here is the final frame i love it i really do i love the all the different colors all the different shells all the different layers and because i was keeping ones that were you know in my opinion inferior um i was able to kind of turn them and only reveal that side was nice look i got to use that giant moon snail there on the left and so all these other ones they might have been imperfect or maybe they were cracked and i just exposed them anyway and that that nutmeg that i thought was too perfect to use he got in there too so i just i really absolutely love this project the e6000 i liked it it was repositionable but it did leave like weird little stringy things all over the place so i needed to go back and pick those off but this is where i'm going to hang it you'll see my gumball machine filled with shells there in the background that was literally the only other shell project i've ever really tackled so super excited about the way this came out thank you patreons thank you viewers thank all of you you guys are truly the best again leave me a comment let me know what you would have done maybe differently or if you have any suggestions or something that for next time i can maybe do a little bit different i hope you enjoyed my little crafty video and i'll see you again on sunday