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Mercury glass is admired for its antique and distressed age-worn look. Originally this poor mans silver was made into candlesticks and other household objects including Christmas ornaments. Nowadays the popular home decor retailers are selling everything from mercury glass pumpkins to finials and vases - and for a very hefty price! There are several ways you can recreate these classics here:
Bluebirdluxe - find and faux mercury glass - tutorial on how to paint a glass vase
Scapalicious Bytes: faux mercury glass (3 tutorials) - excellent post on mercury glass
My Backyard Eden: making faux mercury glass - silver leaf, leaf adhesive and sealer
Fro-Frugal: faux mercury glass pumpkins - with tin foil and modge podge
All Things Heart and Home: mercury glass pumpkins (not really!) - spray & craft paint
7 comments:
Hi Heather,
Thank you so much for the shout out on my Faux Mercury glass pumpkin. It's really held up well and I'm so excited that I'll be able to have this for years to come.
Hi Heather,
thanks so much for mentioning my Mercury Glass tutorials! I think some of the techniques will definitely come in handy for more projects around Christmas time!
Hi Heather,
Thanks for mentioning My Backyard Eden. Those are all great Mercury Glass links!
Heather! There you are. I was wondering where you went.
What a fabulous blog you've created. One stop browsing for particular items/crafts/diy's is a fantastic idea.
I'll link up to you if you don't mind.
Mel
I tried to do this last halloween and couldn't get it to look good..but I am all for trying over and over till it is right..hee hee
Glad to see you back in the decorating world girl.
tammy
I love the look esp. at Christmas time. Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great weekend.
Londen
Hi Heather! Oh my goodness! Thank you soooo much for listing my mercury glass post! And what fun visiting the other blogs {terrific tutorials}! :)
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