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Update Thrift Store Glassware with Paint

Take those glass flea market finds and create pieces perfect for entertaining. Make a do-it-yourself cake stand, etched flower vases, and so much more.

"… Easily give a plain glass vase the lustrous look of mercury glass . Simply spritz the inside of a glass vase with water … coat. The finished texture is a "mirror" image of mercury glass and will add sparkle to any table setting. Get the …"

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Simply Elegant Christmas Decor

… potted plant or flower arrangement. The addition of a mercury glass ball set on a cachepot, a green tree ornament, tall … giant pinecones, silver tree ornaments, and larger mercury glass spheres on the seat. You and your guests will feel …

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Mercury Glass Look-Alike

Don't have the budget for a real mercury glass vase? Fake the look with spray paint and this easy technique.

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in your home, try this. This project idea imitates the look of mercury glass which is highly collectible, but can sometimes be a little expensive. You're going to achieve the same look with a clear glass

can use whatever color you want, if you want silver to imitate mercury glass that's great. We are also gonna try this one in bronze to give a little different look. Hold your spray paint out

Holiday Decorating in an Historic Home

Designers from Better Homes and Gardens and Traditional Home magazines decorated Washington, D.C.'s Blair House for the holidays.

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we just loaded up this tree with these wonderful layers of these mercury glass copper coral colored ornaments, just surrounded by a tree of this sort of peachy coral poinsettias. Then on our mantel in the back, we did this wonderful glade of trees. There's this wonderful trees that are sort of repetitious but they're also done in this mercury glass pieces. So, you've got that sort of shimmer repeated again and again.

-Our [unk] mercury glass on canisters are super cheap and they ship anywhere in the world.

Modern Decorations with Traditional Decor

Even if your home has traditional décor, modern holiday decorations can give you a beautiful look for the Christmas season.

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the garland in the front parlor, while miniature evergreen trees planted in mercury glass containers bring in the architectural element and shine.

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Let Nature and Christmas Color Tie Rooms Together

… arrangement of juniper sprigs, gold mercury glass ornaments, and a coral bow rests … a collection of vintage-look mercury glass ornaments. The delicately colored … green bowl, and gold and red mercury glass ornaments bring together elements …

Creative Flower Arrangement Containers

… settings and centerpieces. Try mercury glass containers as a pristine option … when it was first manufactured, mercury glass is formed by pouring mercury … layers of glass. Find discolored mercury glass at flea markets and antiques shops …

Holiday Decorating Fit (Literally) for a King

… appears on this silver cake stand. Mercury glass ball ornaments top the cake stand … decoration. Silver, gold, and mercury glass Christmas ornaments highlight … Era architecture. A few large mercury glass balls float in the Victorian …

Natural Tabletop Christmas Trees

… and new finds, or purchase clear pieces that match. To make the arrangement dazzle, add rings of boxwood and a mercury - glass bird. Make this pinecone tree stand out by softening its rugged look. Fill a bucket with bleach, add the pinecones …

Fresh Ideas for Classic Christmas Decorating

… magical effect. Wrought-iron furniture stays outside year-round so why not put it to use for Christmas decorating? Mercury - glass gazing balls look like large-scale Christmas ornaments when nestled into a boxwood wreath on the table -- or scattered …

Christmas Cranberry Crafts

… local crafts stores. Cover the foam completely with berries. Rest the balls on top of shapely glass, silver, or mercury glass candlesticks to create statuesque topiaries. Cranberries floating above holly leaves-and-berries in a water …