mirror mirror on the wall

i'm making a mirror for whitney. she has to stand on the toilet just to be able to see all of herself at once. i guess thats kind of important to girls... a full length body mirror i mean, not standing on the toilet. i'm excited because i'm using the first piece of wood i ever bought to make it. i found it in a stack of quite ordinary red oak but this plank was something special. i often would take it off the shelf and look at it wondering what it might be someday. i've imagined it as a cabinet door, a drawer front and just about everything else. i was nervous to start cutting into it but finally i gave in. i'm not going to be afraid anymore to ruin a perfectly good piece of wood. maybe now i'll actually get some work done.



here are the parts for the mirror cut out roughly and ready to begin work. the board had quite a bit of twist in it so i had to spend a couple days bending the stiles into a useable condition.