Pumpkin Glam

Wanting a pumpkin with a little more bling, a little sparkle, a little glam, I recently went to Pottery Barn in search of a mercury glass pumpkin.

I knew at some point in the not-too-distant past, I had seen a photo of a mercury glass pumpkin they were selling but the problem was, when I saw said photo, it didn't register that I needed a glamorous pumpkin.

So ... naturally, I couldn't find one.

Couldn't order one online from Pottery Barn either.

And that made me slightly obsessed with actually getting a mercury glass pumpkin.


I tried painting one of those plastic pumpkins like you see in the craft stores with mirror paint and sprinkling a little splotchy brown paint into the wet mirror paint to fake that mercury glass look and it was ... okay. Although I liked the way the painted pumpkin turned out, in truth the poor thing didn't cut it. It just wasn't mercury glass.

Can you say "More obsessed than ever?"

An online search started. I googled mercury glass pumpkin and found a set of three "antiqued glass gourds" at a site called Wisteria. The whole set only cost $34 and I thought that was a pretty good deal. Trouble is, one never knows what one will get when ordering online from a site with which one is unfamiliar.

I ordered anyway.

Mercury glass pumpkin obsession.


I couldn't remember what the Pottery Barn pumpkin cost but I bet it was probably about the same amount for only one pumpkin so I was thinking even if Wisteria's mercury glass gourds weren't exactly what I was looking for, $34 wasn't that much (and I could always send them back).


So ... I placed my order with Wisteria for the set of 3 antiqued glass gourds and not too long afterward, a huge box arrived via FedEx.

The antique glass gourds won't be going back to Wisteria. They are living happily on the porch of the Cottage.


Only one of the set of three looks like a gourd, the other two are clearly pumpkins and all three are a very nice size, as you can see in the photos. The pumpkins were impressively well packed, arrived fast, priced very nicely, and are of terrific quality.

Not getting the pumpkin at Pottery Barn turned out to be a good thing.