Friday Favorite Flea Finds: Mercury Glass Memories
This bowl of mercury glass ornaments represents years of small, joyful finds, picked up one by one at flea markets, estate sales, and thrift stores across the country. Each ornament…
This bowl of mercury glass ornaments represents years of small, joyful finds, picked up one by one at flea markets, estate sales, and thrift stores across the country. Each ornament has its own personality, from bright mid-century colors to softly silvered spheres that show their age in their best possible speckled way. While I still have more tucked away, downsizing to an apartment and a MUCH smaller tree means not every piece can come out to play these days.
For this photo, I used a fabulous mid-century gold and turquoise Culver "Pisa" bowl as a prop, another favorite find. I picked it up for just $5 at a thrift store in Portland, Oregon, about ten years ago. The bowl usually lives safely in a hutch behind glass doors, tucked beneath my swung vase collection, but it makes the perfect backdrop to show off these well-loved holiday treasures.
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