How to Ruin 2 Perfectly Good Lamps

In case you're wondering, the reason I haven't posted lately is because all of my efforts seem to be thwarted. Like today's example, my bedroom lamps.
Once, they looked like this:
Respectable, right? But I wanted to add some color to our bedroom and spray painted them blue. My husband hated it, so then I painted them white. My can of spray paint ran out,

so you can see a little blue still.

I saw this tutorial about making lamps look antique-y, and decided to try it. Instructions were to mix glaze and paint, then apply to lamp. Here's my glaze and paint.

Something went wrong with the application I guess. Here's the finished product: a whitish-blueis-brownish mess of a lamp.

I'm trying not to let it get me down. I liked them when they were white. I guess I'll just have to go get some more spray paint and try again. Who cares that we're living in the dark in our bedroom while I have these struggles?