Flowers die, chocolates melt, glassybaby forever. That is the compelling concept behind this Seattle-based hand-blown glass vessel business, which grew out of founder Lee Rhodes' garage into something Oprah and Martha Stewart talk about. Glassybaby
Address: 2623 NE University Village
City: Seattle
State: WA
Zip: 98105
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http://www.glassybaby.com
Flowers die, chocolates melt, glassybaby forever. That is the compelling concept behind this Seattle-based hand-blown glass vessel business, which grew out of founder Lee Rhodes' garage into something Oprah and Martha Stewart talk about. 
The old store, still operating in the Madrona neighborhood, is attached to the glassblowing studio where glassybaby are made. Projections on the white walls of the U Village location bring scenes from the studio in order to maintain that workshop feel.
During the past three holiday seasons, glassybaby has done a brisk business at a temporary stand they set up in U Village for the Christmas shoppers — we have no reason to believe that the new brick-and-mortar won't be every bit as successful.
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Wait...they sell identical glass votive holders? In different colors?
Is this some kind of art project?
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Apparently they sell 70 different colors of the same votive, for $40 a pop. Yikes. At first I was thinking I was glad I didn't live in SF, because I'd be there all the time, but with the merch being limited in style and so expensive, yeah, not so much with the regret anymore!
They do look cute, though.
view That70sHeidi's profile
Erm, Seattle. The SF tag at the bottom threw me off. Glad I'm not in SEATTLE. Sorry.
view That70sHeidi's profile
They are incredible in person. Once you see one, you want one. The amount of work that goes into them = the price tag.
view DWF's profile
I got a set of these for Christmas and they're really pretty. $40-worth of pretty? I don't know about that...
view mandre1108's profile
OMG - these are just gorgeous. I wish I could see them in person - I'm sure the website is not doing them justice!
view Kathryn's profile
wow. gorgeous. wish they were priced lower if you bought them in sets...or had a frequent shopper program. :) would make a really lovely mother's day gift.
view bussbuss's profile
yeah i've live in seattle, they are lovely... but not $40 lovely IMHO
view DahliaCactus's profile
I walked by the store the other day and, um, yeah, I was confused how they could sell nothing but different colored otherwise identical glasses. At $40, I really don't get it. They don't look at all impressive to me.
I guess this must be the fashionista equivalent of beanie babies.
view sorin's profile
I grew up a few blocks from their Madrona studio and my mom has a few of them. They are absolutely beautiful.
For those of you concerned about the $40.00 price tag...they are hand made in the United States by skilled crafts people. I don't know where your morals lay, but I have such a hard time with the fact that we are constantly buying things that support sweat shops, the loss of American jobs, child labor, etc because we all want things cheap. cheap. cheap. Buy quality and less quantity and put your dollar where ethics are. (Of course, if your ethics are not the same as mine, look at Walmart instead...or Crate and Barrel who have a long history of mass producing popular independent designs without paying licensing fees. Which, in fact, they did to Glass Babies a few years ago.)
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