Christmas mantle

We fell in love with and  moved into our house 8 1/2 years ago.  The family who lived here many years ago had 5 (i think) kids and many people I meet in town know our house as this family's house.  I like to let people into the house to view it.  Sometimes the house is messy and I apologize, but let them in anyway.  Last weekend I had a yardsale and cleaned and decorated the house for anyone I knew who wanted to see the house.  I decorated the mantle and I LOVE it!

 I usually decorate more for the kids, but this I did for myself.  I'll add to the decorations as the season goes on and add more for the kids, but here's the mantle and this is how it will stay.  

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Making Mercury Glass

I found a blog post about making mercury glass and decided to give it a try.  It took me a little while to get the spray paint and still didn't end up with quite the right thing but decided to give it a try anyway.  I wanted looking glass silver but when I tried the silver I had purchased it turned out more matte.  The supplies you will need are vinegar water spray (50/50), silver looking glass spray, glass containers, newspaper and paper towels. 

Once I had everything together, outside since the spray paint is smelly, I sprayed the inside of the globes lightly.  While the paint was still wet I sprayed the vinegar water mixture onto the inside of the glass.  The vinegar/water beaded up the paint and I took a paper towel at this point and dabbed off the excess paint. 

I sprayed and dabbed until I was happy with the results.

Once they were all dry I took them inside to the mantle and put some candles in them.  I would have liked black candles for Halloween but had to make due with little white ones. 

I think I could have taken off  a little more paint but the glow is very pretty.  I think I'll try again and follow the instruction of the blog post and see what the results end up like.