Last month, our friends invited us out to an "Art Walk". This is an event where merchants in a trendy new design district in town keep their shops open late, serve wine and cheese, and you wander though their (mostly overpriced, but interesting)shops.
One shop specialized in handblown Italian glass from the 60's - the kind of stuff everyone had in their living rooms when I was a kid. Vases and lamps of blue, orange, or green blown glass - apparently it's trendy now, and the pieces were rather pricey.
Anyway - fast forward to last Friday. As I'm headed to the dry cleaners, I see a sign for an estate sale. Stopped on a whim (I'm always meaning to go but never do) - and found a swirly blue Italian handblown glass vase for $3.50!!
It looks pretty smart in the front hall, on my $89 imitation Stickley table from Target!
