Mirror magic

I always loved my parents mirror they had hanging up in our living room growing up, but the color of it definitely went out of style a while ago.  About a year ago I found it hanging up in one of their rooms in the basement and asked my dad if I could have it.  This is what I did with it.

BEFORE:

It was this beautiful gold color that was fashionable back in the 70s and 80s.  I roughed it up with some sand paper and painted it this:

By the way, don't mind the mess you can't help to notice in the mirror!  I was cleaning out our storage room (across the hall) and all the empty boxes got thrown in here for the time being along with anything else I wanted out of my way.  Eventually I will get it cleaned up and organized... but for now...  I then took my chocolate glaze and dabbed it with a cloth and small paintbrush on top of the blue:

Ta-da!  My new beautiful mirror to forever remind me of my mom: