A good friend looks out for you.  They will tell you if you have a piece of spinach caught in your teeth.  They will let you know that your slip is hanging below your dress – although that might be the look you’re going for since that’s currently the fashion.  They will surely let you know that you have an inch long hair growing out of your cheek. 

Good friends take care of one another.

Another thing about good friends is that they love you just the way you are – midrift bulges; sags and wrinkles; squinty I-forgot-to-bring-my-glasses eyes.  They even love your, “Have I told you this story before?” memory.

Maybe that’s why I’m so drawn to antique and vintage pieces.  With all their crackly, chippy, faded beauty they remind me just a little bit of myself.

I wanted to share with you today, another aspect of my At Long Last Dining Room Reveal, this sweet French Country mirror.

I fell in love with this mirror when I first saw it in an antique store back in Olympia, Washington.  It’s shabby goodness spoke to my heart.

I even liked the fact that the silvering on the back of the mirror was peeling because it gave me the perfect opportunity to place some of my vintage sheet music behind the mirror.

This may be SHOCKING to some of you purists but I even chipped away a tiny bit more of the silver so the music would really stand out.

Fun Fact: Before the 19th century mirrors were silvered (the name of the mirroring process) with an amalgam of tin and mercury.  By the 19th century when this mirror was made the silvering process was done with real silver.  Today aluminum or other compounds are more often used.

I love the look of the musical notes on yellowed paper peeking out from behind the mirror, and it is such fun when someone walks into my dining room and stops to take a second look!

If you are going to be an antique you might as well be the best looking antique you can be! 

Speaking of looking your best you might be interested in checking out my Fab Over Fifty Pinterest board to see some of the looks I love to wear, because who says we older gals aren’t worth a “second look?”

If you are a lover of mirrors like I am, you might also like my Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Pinterest board.

Just looking out for you FRIENDS 😉

Blessings,

 TheDIYShowoff, LifeOnLakeshoreDrive, NiftyThriftyThings, SilverPenniesSundays, SundaysAtHome, RusticAndRefined, Spiritual Sundays,

 TheDIYShowoff, LifeOnLakeshoreDrive, NiftyThriftyThings, SilverPenniesSundays, SundaysAtHome, RusticAndRefined, Spiritual Sundays, Sunday Stillness