{"id":522,"date":"2011-09-23T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=522"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:06:17","slug":"coastal-mirrors-guilty-little-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Mirrors & Guilty Little Pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have this relatively new guilty little pleasure.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a blog I recently found, called Completely Coastal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It has all sorts of beautiful things on it, things I dream of having in my house someday.<\/p>\n

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Like, the first post I think I read<\/a> included this. That night, I fantasized about finding an old door washed up on my shore and transforming it to look like the one in the picture.<\/p>\n

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And then I found a post<\/a> with, well, this, and I think I may have swooned. Just a little. When I came to, I informed LCB that we would be needing a space just like this. You could see that I had just blown his mind by suggesting that our plastic Adirondack chairs were less than ideal.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of those sites I could spend hours on. Daily.<\/p>\n

So there I was Wednesday night, trying to avoid working on a post by exploring Completely Coastal under the pretense of doing blog research. Hey, the small people believed me. Not that they cared. They were just thrilled to be allowed to watch a movie on Netflix on a school night. I could have told them I was busy concocting eternal world peace and they would have nodded acceptingly.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, there was a post on building a shell mirror<\/a>. Now, many of you recall a few weeks ago I asked for some mirror advice<\/a> for my master bathroom that was mirrorless. I mentioned how I longed for shell mirrors, but because of color considerations and my lack of craftiness, I would likely end up with what I believe I called a lackluster purchase from a big box store.<\/p>\n

After I posted about my mirrors, however, I formulated this theory that maybe, with enough tenacity and ingenuity, I could, in the end, bask in shell-adorned mirrors after all. I spent hours visiting stores and pouring over websites and catalogs, determined to prevail. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153intervention\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was starting to run through LCB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mind at some point during my quest.<\/p>\n

In the end?<\/p>\n

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I purchased two lackluster mirrors from a big box store.<\/p>\n

To my knowledge, there were no shells involved in the making of my mirrors, nor were they even made in a facility that processes shell product.<\/p>\n

They are slightly gussied up, what with the pewter beaded lip and all. But they are void of shells.<\/p>\n

I had just unwrapped them from the packaging Wednesday morning, proclaimed them acceptable, and was awaiting LCB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s manpower to install the mirrors in my bathroom.<\/p>\n

Then, I saw Completely Coastal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tutorial on making a shell mirror.<\/p>\n

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Look, her mirror is absolutely gorgeous.<\/p>\n

And now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m having issues.<\/p>\n

Because I want to make this mirror, and I want it to turn out exactly like hers.<\/p>\n

However, upon further reflection, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it would look stunning in my bathroom.<\/p>\n

It might work in my bedroom, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m skeptical.<\/p>\n

Alternately, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking of building an addition onto the house, for the mirror.<\/p>\n

I can deal with the issue of my failure rate with crafty projects later, after LCB\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done with my new sunroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have this relatively new guilty little pleasure. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a blog I recently found, called Completely Coastal. It has all sorts of beautiful things on it, things I dream of having in my house someday.                         Like, the first post I think I read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,549,547,548,105,100,550,546],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-life","tag-decorating-a-beach-house","tag-fabulous-shell-mirror-on-completely-coastal","tag-i-cant-decide-on-a-mirror","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-my-coastal-guilty-pleasure","tag-shell-mirrors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}