[Diana in Wisconsin]

I can't wait to start posts this winter on, 'Off Season Uses for Mason Jars!'

Pro Tip: 'Looking Glass' Paint by Krylon makes Mason Jars, or any clear glassware look like Mercury Glass. It's really pretty! Not food-safe though, of course.

[Liz]

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

[MomwithHope]

That looking glass paint looks interesting it must be hard to spray just right without marks left behind.

BTW I made the bacon compound butter yesterday. Used a pound of butter and for quantities I just followed the recipe visually to match. Yummy!! Had a little on my omelet this morning. Will probably try a baked potato too. Mainly made it for Thanksgiving to have with plain old tube biscuits.