Kitchen

[willdob3]

lol... I only caught a glimpse of them online & also wondered what they were. I figured I must be missing some exciting thing about them but I really was not inrterested enough to look further.

At a glance they looked like they might be pretty but I work hard at keeping dust collectors out of my house.

[Laurel013]

Hokey? Kinder project? Desperate? Silly? Uninspiring? Junk? Who knows anymore.

[disneynut57]

I have to agree - $10 each for a mason jar? Junk....

I have a pretty glass bottle that has a snowman painted on it. Handpainted. It has lights inside. That wasn't even $10

[Nana5]

Guess I'm a country girl. I like the jars; not crazy about another item needing batteries however.

Just after Christmas I bought jars at Pottery Barn that look just like Valerie's silver ones. I paid more at Pottery Barn and their jars have no lights or lids.

For those who think you can do the "mercury glass" look with paint--Good luck! You need a special spray paint called "Looking glass." It's expensive, takes multiple steps to make it look splotchy and it still does not look like mercury glass. At least the projects I did, don't look anything like the mercury glass item's I've bought from VPH and at other places.

For those who want Mason jars to use for food projects, they are available anywhere and don't cost anything close to these decorative jars. I use Mason jars every summer when I can fruits.

[lovesrecess]

the finish on these jars is not mercury glass....don't know why they are calling it that; if it were really mercury glass the set would cost three times the price.....and the splattered-paint finish just doesn't look that great to me

[esmerelda]

I agree. I'm over the whole mercury glass (or pseudo mercury glass), battery-using decor trend.

And they spent almost an hour on these at midnight?

[brii]

I don't like these sorts of things.

[sidsmom]

Tchotchkes like this make me sad...very sad. It's just an instantaneous purchase for a VERY limited use only to live a lifetime in a landfill.

[DoneTryin]

On 2/18/2014 Nana5 said:

For those who think you can do the "mercury glass" look with paint--Good luck! You need a special spray paint called "Looking glass." It's expensive, takes multiple steps to make it look splotchy and it still does not look like mercury glass. At least the projects I did, don't look anything like the mercury glass item's I've bought from VPH and at other places.

I thought about a similar effect, but not actually trying to get it to look like mercury glass. For that matter, I'm not going to do either since I'd be OK with just weighting jars I have with sand, putting a votive candle down in there, & using on my balcony during the summer. When I'm finished with that, the candles will have burned down, I can dump the sand back into the bag, & I can wash the jars to use for something else.

[Mistreatedbycs]

These would be a great Lunchtime Special at $12 and change!

6" ....you got to be kidding...and do what with them, add one to a basket of towels. These are definitely for someone with disposable income