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DIY Faux Mercury Glass Pumpkin Pottery Barn Knock Off { Tutorial }

written by Rebecca E. Parsons

Oh My Gosh…I love a little sparkle around the house. And these awesome Antique Mercury Glass Pumpkin‘s from Pottery Barn captured my fancy for autumn!

Pottery Barn Antique Mercury Glass Pumpkin

Can’t you just imagine them sparkling from your harvest table or lined up across a mantle draped with rafia or burlap. The contrast between the highly textured and oh-so-ordinary burlap with the not-so-ordinary pumpkins is unexpected and delightful. Perhaps a faux mercury glass pumpkin peeking out from your pewter collection…

I was all set to do a tutorial when my friend Monica Benavidez of Monica Wants It blog created this awesome tutorial…so why reinvent the wheel. I share her hints below, but stop by her tutorial and tell her you saw it here please. She also has a brand new Facebook page that could use some LIKEs!!!

Monica's pumpkins

The secret is Krylon’s Looking Glass Paint (You can find it online at Hobby Lobby for $11.99, but if you click the 40% off banner at the top you save like $4+.) What would you like to paint with this stuff? Tell me below!!!

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  1. Lana says

    September 23, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    I saw those in the latest PB catalog and loved them! Thanks for sharing the tutorial. I might try my hand at making faux mercury glass apothecary jars…

  2. Merilee Sawusch says

    September 23, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    When this paint first came out I taught a stenciling class on stenciling an 8×10 glass with the stencil cut from clear contact paper.

  3. Hope says

    November 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm

    Love this tutorial. Still searching for the paint. I wondered if you knew how to make a more gold finish using this technique?

  4. Rebecca E. Parsons says

    November 6, 2011 at 2:20 pm

    Hope, this is a mirror finish, so it is not warm at all. You could tint the outer glass with glass paint.

  5. Carole says

    July 18, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    Of course, now I’m wishing I had picked up that glass pumpkin (like the one above) when I saw it at the thrift store last week (or that I still had the one I got rid of several years ago). Sigh. To give myself a break though, looking glass paint wasn’t around then. I do like it, but it takes an awful lot of coats to actually cover. That said, I also wipe some off to get the aged look. 🙂

  6. Kristina says

    September 6, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    Hey I painted the pumpkins white then applied the looking glass did not make a mirror finish at all. It came out matte grey :/.. I don’t know what I did wrong

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DIYer. Graphic Designer. Creative. Foodie. Rebecca E. Parsons is a Renaissance gal with designers eye living happily where design meets new media. Rebecca is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, storyteller, digital and Photographic Artist, Dreamer, Lifelong Communicator and Blissful Wordsmith. Unconventional and delightfully curious, she is passionate about helping others find their visual voice through great blog design. She believes that every dream is possible and possible is everywhere!

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