I had seen a project like this on HGTV, and I couldn't get it out of my head until I made one myself.  This is a mirror decorated with the shiny colorful material of pop cans.

It took a while to find just the right base to start, but I got lucky to find this mirror on clearance at Gordman's for $20.

It was originally brown, but I spray painted it black.

The reason it was on clearance was because there were a few missing pieces of these raised blocks.  But my wonderful husband cut a few for me to fill in the blanks with.  Thanks Honey!

I knew they would be covered up anyway, so no one would ever know!                                                                    

I had saved many pop cans over a few months, cut off the tops and the bottoms so that I had flat aluminum pieces.  Then I cut 1 1/2 inch squares to fit on the raised blocks.

There was 168 raised blocks, with four little nails on each corner of the square to hold on the aluminum piece.
(FYI thats 672 nails plus or minus a few I had to yank out)

It took a while.  I basically had this on my kitchen table for a week, and I would sit down for some nailing sessions
every chance I could.

Blood sweat and tears went into this one!

Here's the final product! I just love how shiny and colorful she looks!

The side view

Definitely a conversation piece, wouldn't you say?
This is for my sweet daughter Erin to hang in her new apartment!