My wife had a project for me. For the project I needed to have a glass cutter. Now, I know I used to have one decades ago in a different house, but I didn’t have it any more. During our walk around town, there was a stop at our hardware store. I was in luck. They had two in stock, so I bought one.
Back home after the walk, it was time to see how it would turn out. We had an old mirror that used to be located in our long-ago sold camping trailer. Well, that was about eight years ago. I traded the camper in for enough money to install a new gas fireplace. We now joke about it being the best camper we have ever owned. Okay, I am digressing. Back to the tale.
We have this very old window frame that is severely out of shape, with room for four mirror inserts. Taking the old mirror, I carefully etched the mirror for the first cut. Oops! That didn’t go well. I tried again sectioning off another part of the mirror. The results were significantly worse.
After the umpteenth try, it was obvious that I wouldn’t/couldn’t do the task. There was not enough mirror left to use to cutout a pane to fit into the frame. It was then that an idea blossomed for both my wife and I, basically at the same time. Using a cardboard background, I could glue the broken pieces to create a piece of art. A half hour later, it was done.
We both studied it for a while until my wife suggested we could have the cardboard painted rather than left a dull brown. I suggested blue – as if we were looking through a broken window to see the blue skies on the other side.
It was her turn to get to work. The paint flowed and she was excited about the way it was turning out. When the cardboard was painted, she decided to glue the cardboard backboards to the frame. Then, we had to be patient. Lunch was our perfect excuse.
Two hours later, I used screws to attach the finished product to our fence behind the old crab apple tree. You can see the results in the first image above.