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We love to use bud vases for entertaining. Try a group of them scattered along the center of a dining table, or tucked in little crannies around the living room, or stashed in the bathroom to surprise your guests. If you're buying them as host/ess gifts, tuck each one into an open box inside a nest of colorful tissue, add a single lovely bud, and deliver to your hosts each in turn.

Pictured, from left to right:

FIRST ROW
• 1 Stephanie Kao's Onyx Vase Dressed in Ivory Lace, $50 for a set of 2 on Etsy.
• 2 Set of 3 bud vases from Heath Ceramics, $60 for the set.
• 3 Glitz Bottle Bud from dbO Home, $55 each. Available in three different designs.
• 4 Glassbaby is really a votive, but it works just as well as a bud vase. $40 apiece, but they do come in sets as well (at a discount off the individual price).
• 5 Here's another one that's not technically a vase: Alyssa Ettinger's Knitware Tumbler. $35 apiece, $25 for the demitasse size.

SECOND ROW
• 6 Mudpuppy's Bud Vase with Woven Netting is available at Rare Device for $26.
• 7 Tina Frey Designs Vince Vase, available at Design Public for $40. Available in several bright colors as well.
• 8 Gizella vase in ice blue by Diana Fayt, $42.