The Diva of DIY: At Last..A Mercury Glass Lamp!

I have been on a mission for a long time now, trying to find a glass lamp that I could paint like mercury glass! Specifically, I wanted a garage sale find... searched and searched... no luck! I finally found one at Hobby Lobby today! At least it was 50% off! but the really groovy orange lampshade was not gonna match the room, (although I LOVE the orange and white lampshade!) Will have to use that on another project! So I also bought the neutral lampshade to top off my "soon to be" mercury lamp!

Here are a few of the supplies I had on hand to start off! Have been having the LOOKING GLass paint for a while, just waiting for this magical moment!

The anticipation was killing me.... so I jumped right in! Only to find out that the lamp base was TOO small to fit my hand in! Dang, now what... spray inside lamp, lightly misting and let paint roll around the inside where you can't reach! Do this a few times and let dry. I sped it up with a blow dryer.

Mix 1 cup of vinegar and 1 cup of water and put in a spray bottle. Mist the inside, then dab with a paper towel...here is where I had to improvise because my hand wouldn't fit inside the lamp. So I put a paper towel on a stick and swooshed it gently around inside to smudge off some of the paint. Then with a sea sponge and a sponge brush on a stick, I added some sponged metallic paints on the inside where I had smudged off some of the mirror paint! While the paint dried I hot glued beaded fringe to the inside of the neutral lampshade.