Gold, gold and more gold

I am not a "gold" person. But when it came to the tv bar cart, I felt gold was appropriate since the knobs were gold and the tv inlay was gold. It's growing on me. Kind of makes it a little more classier, in my opinion.

After looking at my inspiration photo, I decided I wanted a gold plated serving tray, some 1950's/60's inspired glassware, and some few other odds and ends. I went to my local thrift store, Sister's Thrift and Consignment Shop (AMAZING thrift store - with awesome owners), and hunted around in their massive glassware section.

I also stumbled upon a silver plated serving tray. Which, again, I forgot to take a picture of before I spray painted it metallic gold. I suck at this picture taking thing.

I purchased the tray, a set of 8 vintage looking glasses, and this gold painted vase looking thing. Haven't figured out what I'm going to do with THAT yet. Maybe I'll put swizzle sticks in it. I found a website on ebay that sells old school ones so that's what I may do. But that's another post for another time.

This post details my gold serving tray and gold rimmed glasses. Yes, again I find inspiration on Pinterest and decide I want gold rimmed glasses.

But before I forget, here is my new serving tray:

OK! Now onto the fun stuff. My glasses! This is a very tedious job, warning you now.

Supplies you will need:

• Glasses (or whatever you want to paint)
• Acrylic paint (usually under $2.00 at your craft store)
• Small brush (usually under $2.00 at your craft store)
• Painter's tape
• Exacto knife (MUST HAVE)

1) First measure how thick you want the gold rim. I decided on 1/4". This is the tedious part. You have to measure down every few centimeters and put some painters tape, working around the glass. I tried marking the glass with eyeliner (yeah, I didn't have a glass pencil so eyeliner it was), but it didn't work too well. It was easier just taking my time and slowly cutting small pieces of painters tape and applying it around the glass. Make sure you press the tape down well, even though no matter how hard I tried, the paint still got under it.

2) Paint the section with the color paint you want. Here it is after 1 coat. I let it dry for about 30 minutes and then painted another 2 coats on.

3) A few hours later I tried to get the tape off and the paint came with it. Not cool. I found that using an exacto knife really helped. All I did was very gently slice right above the painters tape so that it broke the tape away from the paint. So when I pulled the tape off, the paint didn't come with it. You will find some paint did get under the tape but I just used the exacto knife to chip away at it and make my line look smoother.

4) Once you fix the paint and the glasses look the way you want them to, you need to cure the paint so that you can actually USE the glasses (wash them, drink off them, etc.) **Always check the manufacturer of the paint you are using to make sure it can come into contact with food/liquid**

To cure it you do the following:

• Place glasses in a COOL oven.
• Turn oven on to 325 or 350 degrees (I set the oven to 325)
• Wait 30-40 minutes
• Turn the oven off and leave the glasses in there until the oven is COOL again
• Wait up to 5 days for the paint to completely cure before using/washing

Voila! Gold painted glassware.

Total cost: $3.00 for the tray, .50 cents for that painted gold vase thing, $1.50 for the glasses, $1.50 for the paint and about $1.00 for the brush.