“My brother and his family live in Seattle, and they gave us a set of 4 fluted glasses years ago - maybe 10 years ago or so for my birthday or Christmas. We always loved them and always found them beautiful, but in the past year it dawned on us that these glasses are actually good for our kids and great for our family to use. They are the right size for their hands, and now that they have grown out of the phase where we would worry about them dropping plates and cups all the time, we love to use these. In so many aspects of our lives we can't do "nice" things - our kids are too young to take to nice restaurants, it's not worth buying a new set of dining room chairs even though we desperately need a new set (because, while they don't drop, they do spill - all the time!). But these glasses are beautiful, and a joy to use, and they are sturdy and just right for our kids, too. It brings us great joy to use these - we literally use and wash and use these again 3 times a day. This is a "nice" thing we can do together as a family.” Sola T., Oakland, CA
I started making my drinking glasses when my son (now 17) was a toddler.
When you first learn to work with glass, you blow thick, chunky objects.
The glasses I made were just the right size for his little hands and I made more of them as gifts for my friends' kids. Glass is strong when it is blown thick, so I knew they wouldn’t break during the gravity testing phase of early child development!
Parents appreciate that the glasses are durable and that their children are not drinking out of plastic.
My son (and the other boys in his neighborhood posse) have been drinking out of these glasses (minis and water glasses) for years with only one broken glass in ten years. Children are wowed by the fabulous color shifting optics of these glasses.
Teenagers love them as well and a single tall glass makes a wonderful teen birthday or graduation gift.
