How to create an upcycled mercury glass centerpiece

Have you looked at the shape of the glass bottles 

you may be throwing away or recycling?

You might consider up-cycling them with Looking Glass Paint.

Looking Glass Paint

I started with an old window.

This one is especially crusty.

It has a wonderful story to tell...

 This window was from Miss Mary Love's home in Auburn, Alabama.  

Our ninety year-old next door neighbor.  

She replaced all windows back in 1999 and put the old on the curb.  

Our first home in Auburn... visiting 8 years after we moved away.
(Mary Love lived to the right of us.)

Horrified those amazing windows were heading to the dump...

I lost all of my newly acquired southern manners, 

rushed her door to ask her if she would mind if I took them home. 

  

"Really,"  she said to me.  "Do you really want those junky ol' things?  

They won't work anymore..."