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To: Diana in Wisconsin
A great holiday project. Hobby Lobby is one of the few stores that carries the Krylon Looking Glass Spray Paint needed
to make those wonderful mercury glass "antique look-alike" items. Start today. You'll have a marvelous collection by Christmas.

Get the effect on inexpensive clear glass items---see tutorials on-line.

The dollar store has odd glassware. And squat jam jars in the
supermarket---w/ pressed glass fruit designs--look like antiques
when mercuried.

NOTE Many spray paint products have been tried and failed---silver,
chrome, nickle. Krylon Looking Glass paint works. Hard to find---
but Hobby Lobby has it.

HOW-TO Spray droplets of water inside the glass before
spray-painting----to get that antique mottled look after it dries.

Shop Hobby Lobby on-line.

http://www.hobbylobby.com/home.cfm?market=yp

101 posted on 11/19/2020 5:47:57 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Liz

It’s GORGEOUS! I’m obsessed!

I have two vases that are REAL Mercury Glass. My Grandma found them in a shop and they were ‘supposedly’ survivors of The Great Chicago Fire when she overpaid for them in 1950, LOL!

Grandpa liked to point that out. ;)


105 posted on 11/19/2020 7:39:05 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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