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Last week I started dyeing clothespins. It was weirdly
cathartic. I haven’t had a lot of time for crafts the last few
months so making stuff pretty by letting it sit in plastic
cups rubbed me the right way. In fact, it rubbed me so
right, I made 300 of them.

Three hundred? Do you have a use for 300 clothespins?

Yep, no. Neither do I. SO let’s do what we do best and
glue them a mirror and call it a day!

You won’t even believe how easy this is. You’ll make one
and then it’s be so rad you’ll want to make ten and give
them to everyone you know.

The fun part is dyeing the clothespins — check out my
tutorial on Ilovetocreate.com for that. After you are done
dyeing and drying, it’s nothing but ten minutes of hot glue
glory, baby.

It took me 48 pegs to cover the frame of an 11″ mirror.
Your needs will depend on the size and how far in you
want the pegs to cover the mirror, but you get the picture.

*Hot glue is fine for most surfaces, but if your base is
plastic or metal, consider using tile adhesive instead.

To keep the pegs from bunching up, make sure each peg
points to the exact center of the circle (think of the second
dashes around the rim of a clock). This might mean that
your pegs lay with tiny gaps in between. I’m fine with this
but if your frame base is not so pretty, consider painting it
first.

I laid my clothespins on their side with the tips pointing in.

Some folks commented after the first tutorial that they
have a hard time reassembling the clothespins after they
have been separated from the spring. I also found this
difficult until I looked at a finished/ready-made/loaded
clothespin as an example to figure out where the prongs
and stuff went. However, if you are dyeing the pins just to
get a frame situation like this, there really is no reason you
need to bother with the spring at all; just lay the little peg-
halves out side-by-side. Nobody will notice the spring is
missing and it’ll still look super cool. We to be lazy AND
awesome. Go you!