.: DIY - Closet Mirror :.

So my parents recently gave me their master bedroom (my mom thinks it's too loud and sleeps in my sister's room, my dad sleeps in the basement. They don't sleep together, they think each other is too loud) as my new bedroom. Since this hardly ever happens, I decided to use this opportunity to redecorate a new room. Since I'm almost 20 (In June), I wanted to upgrade everything I have into a more mature and minimalist style. (Yes, I've been on Tumblr/ Pinterest a lot) Instead of buying all new furniture, I decided to use my old ones and repurpose them. My first furniture (If you can call it that) is my closet mirror. In my old room, the mirror was behind the closet door and is hidden by the door. but my new closet has two sliding doors so my mirror has to be displayed outside for people to see.

Things you'll need:
- a mirror
 - paint (mine are acrylic)
- paintbrush
- rubbing alcohol (optional, used to wipe your mirror with)
- newspaper (to line your mirror with so that you don't get paint everywhere)
- modge podge (optional, if you want it to have a nice shine to it)

This mirror was purchased many years ago from IKEA and its seen better days. So i decided to give it a fresh coat of paint. The paint I chose is this mint/torquiose crafting paint from Micheals. I pretty much painted two to three coats and painted the frame over with Modge Podge. (This step was optional, but I didn't want my paint to chip so I decided to seal it)

So that's pretty much it for this easy tutorial! I think it turned out rather nice actually. See you guys soon!

Steps:
1. Tape around edges of mirror with scrap paper/ newspaper
2. Clean mirror with rubbing alcohol (Optional)
3. Paint mirror, let dry then paint another coat
4. Seal it up with Modge Podge (Optional)
5. VOILA! you're done! Hang it up!

.: Review - Lego 2013 Christmas Advent Calendar :.

(The front of the box)

So for Christmas a good friend of mine bought me this Lego 2013 Christmas Advent calendar as a gift. I've always wanted one and actually never gotten around to buying one for myself (because back then I didn't have a job and when I finally did I forgot about it) While my friend got herself the David's Tea advent calendar she decided to get me the Lego one. Lego came out with 3 different Christmas Calendars this year, there is the one that I have which is considered the Lego City brand, there's a Lego Star Wars as well as the Lego Friends brand for the female demographic. I'm so glad she got me this one because out of all three I prefer/ like this one the most. (I'm not a big fan of Star Wars and I'm not into the Friends line since I'm not a girl... even if I try really hard... just kidding... what?  So this piece actually folds out into a big panorama setting so that you can put your daily presents on top to display. There are some good points about this as well as some bad points.

(The inside of the box after you flip the opening flap)

(The minifigs in all its glory)

I really like that Lego puts out minifigures in these sets because what good is a Lego set without some minifigures. The ones that Lego put in here are all really well rounded (Ex. there's Santa, a kid, a female firefighter, policeman and a couple more) I like that it's not just male minifigures and gives out female ones as well as kid body parts too so that it is more diverse. Another good point about this set is that even if  you have a small child that loses bits and pieces of their Lego sets they won't have to worry because this calendar comes with a lot of extra pieces. Like seriously after I was done this calendar I had so many sausage pieces left I don't even know what to do with them. I guess I can just put them into my Lego box which basically means they'll all just fall to the bottom sides of the bin. This set actually lets you build this whole Christmas dinner table complete with a bench as well as a Christmas tree with presents underneath with a fireplace right next to it! It's so detailed and nicely build that I even put this whole thing up on display right afterwards.

(my two favourite figures from this set)

Of course with every positive points there's got to be some negative ones, though they are just minor points it's still worth noting them. Though the set does relate itself to eachother nicely, there's at least half of the calendar where I'm just wondering what this or that has to do with Christmas... like really an astronaut, go kart racer, burgler, policeman, firefighter, and this mechanical arm thing... nothing in there even relates to Christmas at all... so I would like to see MORE Christmas related items. Personally it felt like Lego thought of half of it with care and the rest just filled with their left over Polybags or something because it does feel like they didn't even bother with it.

(what is with the race car driver and firefighter?)

So all in all I really liked this set. I actually would get another one for myself this coming Christmas. even though some days felt like the creators of this ran out of ideas and randomly shoved extra pieces in from precious LEGO sets. Younger children should have no problem with this, HECK I was never this picky when I was younger... well maybe a little. I would rate this LEGO Christmas 2013 Advent calender 3/5. Being more on the pricier side and having weird non Christmas themed days.

(I still LOVE this set!)

(Happy super belated holidays!)