How To: Bamboo Sunburst Mirror

When I envisioned what I wanted my bedroom to look like for The One Room Challenge, I knew I wanted to keep with the tropical theme, but I wanted it to still be slightly modern.  I have always loved the texture of bamboo and have used it in my house for a long time.  After looking at couple of sunburst mirrors on Pinterest I decided that I wanted to make one out of bamboo.  Modern meets tropical!

Like most of my DIY projects I really don't have a plan before I begin.  Just a have an overall finished vision and vague idea of how I am going to do it!

Materials needed:

Bamboo 

{again I wish I could tell you how much I used, but I bought my here and think 3 bunches would do}

5" mirror

5" needlepoint loop

Cardboard cut to 5" or 5" wood disk

{upon second thought, I used both}

Miter box

Hand saw

Spray Paint in color of choice

Hot glue gun and sticks

Saw tooth hanger

I first started out by laying out a pattern I thought I would like.  I sort of wanted the pattern to be long, then medium, then short and back to medium.  

Once the pattern was laid out I cut all of the exposed ends to a 45 degree angle.  I then measured and cut to the right size.

This is what it looked like.  And I didn't like it!  I wanted it to be more bulky and have more rays.  At this point it was late and I was tired!

So the next morning with a clear head and a cup of coffee I laid out a new design on my kitchen table.

Instead of staggering the bamboo sticks I found I got more rays if I lined them up on the very edge of the cardboard disk.  I taped off a cross to better guide my center points.  Then I followed the pattern I originally wanted; long, medium, short, medium, long.  That pattern made 1/8 of the circle.  Typically I would cut all of my pieces and then glue them all down, but the bamboo was rolling all over the place, so I cut then glued one by one.

Next I sprayed the first color on the bottom.  I wanted there to be a little extra depth to the sunburst so I sprayed the bottom layer a matte gold and the top layer a bright gold.  

For the second layer I used all of the left over pieces from my nightstands.  I didn't really have a pattern in mind, but I wanted them to sort of be weaved into the bottom layer.  Nothing longer than the stick it was next to.  I attached the top layer to the needlepoint loop with hot glue.  **Note: I was just at hobby lobby {of course after I was finished with this project} and saw wood glue hot glue sticks!!  How great is that!  They also had sticks for fabric glue!!**

Then I sprayed the top layer in my shiny gold.

Originally I was just going to use the cardboard to as my base, but as I added the second layer I thought it needed a little bit more support.  So I found this 5" round disk at the craft store and hammered the saw tooth hanger on the back.  I used hot glue to glue it to the cardboard before I added the second layer of bamboo.  I also used hot glue to attach the top layer to the bottom.

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