Just 4 Days left!

Only 4 days left to enter your name into the drawing for a Free Pink Breast Cancer Martini Glass. If you have difficulty leaving a comment on the blog you can always email me at info@classonglass.biz and your name will still be entered. Scroll down to check out details about the giveaway. Good luck!

How to leave a comment

To leave a comment and put your name in the drawing for the Breast Cancer Martini Glass, just scroll to the bottom of the blog below this one, showing details about the glass giveaway and click on the word comments. This will bring up all comments left and a box for you to fill in and add your own to the others.

Thank you and Good Luck!

Free Breast Cancer Martini Glass

FREE!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month I am giving away one of my Pink Martini Glasses.

All you have to do is check out my blog and my Etsy shop http://www.classonglass.etsy.com/ and leave me a comment about both right here in the comments section.

This beautiful glass is hand painted in a mix of pinks and has words of inspiration such as Heal, Love, Faith, Believe, Courage, & Hope. There are also small pink ribbons on the glass and a genuine swarovski crystal accents a pink ribbon on the foot.

I have teamed up with the Ovarian & Breast Cancer Alliance of Washington for all sales of my Inspirational stemware. For each purchase I give back $2 per stem to this non-profit organization that promotes education and awareness on Ovarian & Breast Cancer. I have an assortment of various different designs in my inspirational stemware line, so please check them out on my Etsy site and know that you will be supporting a good cause with your purchase. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I have also extended my $2 donation to include ANY item purchased. Check out my feedback on Etsy too, it speaks for itself.

In the meantime, send me a comment and I will randomly select a winner for this martini glass on November 1st. I guarantee you will love it. Don't forget to include your current email address and to check back to see if you are the lucky winner! Tell all your friends to enter the drawing too.

Good luck!

A Pairing of Wine & Art

The Maple Valley Creative Arts Council hosted a fundraising event this weekend. "A Pairing of Wine & Art" was held at the Lake Wilderness Lodge in Maple Valley. We had 220 people in attendance - not bad for our first event of this kind. We tasted 3 different wines which were paired with tasty appetizers and finished off the evening with scrumptious desserts and a rich tawny Port. There was music by the Cascade Jazz Trio, and ourlocal singer Susanna Fuller sang an assortment of Sarah Brightman songs. They also held a silent auction of items donated by several local artists along with an auction of the table centerpiece wine and martini glasses provided by yours truly!

This was the project that was keeping me so busy at home this week and my tables full of stemware. I provided a pair of my Hand Painted stemware for the center of each table. 22 pairs in all, made available for purchase through the silent auction.



We all received a surprise for attending too. A gift card to Chair & Trellis' new store, opening in Redmond early November. The cards varied in value from $10-$100. What a cool surprise!



The event was a lot of fun, very active, a great evening out for a great cause. It was a huge success and if you didn't buy a ticket then you should definitely do so when next years event comes around.

Glasses, Glasses, Everywhere.

So, this is what my house looks like when I have a big project under way.

Every imaginable horizontal surface is filled with hand painted stemware this week. Where do we eat you ask, well usually we are delegated to the island in the kitchen or a plate on our lap. My poor family!

Of course it's not just a matter of painting the glasses. When I'm done and the paint is dry they have to be heat set in my oven and then the final step is the cleaning to get rid of all those nasty fingerprints I put on there. We go through lots of those cans of glass cleaner and paper towels!

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I will be offering a Free give away from my Pink Inspirational line of stemware. Please check back for your opportunity to win a beautiful Martini Glass. I will be posting it later this week.

I Loooooove these compliments!

One of the neatest things about selling my glass art on Etsy is the compliments I receive from total strangers who have put their trust in my work and ordered online from my Etsy shop. http://www.classonglass.etsy.com/ It is such an honor to know that my work is making it's way into homes all across the country. Today I received an email from a customer in Omaha, Nebraska. This is what she said:

Sent by piccolinadesigns on October 04, 2009:
Just wanted to follow up with you- I just gave the glasses to my mother-in-law for her birthday and she LOVES them. She called me after the party to thank me again for such an amazing gift. They were the hit of her birthday!
Mia

Here's a picture of the glasses Mia gave as a birthday gift. They're actually one of my favorites, and they were also featured in celebrity gift bags at GBK's Emmy Gift Suite Lounge last month. Who knows who might be the next to want some..........maybe some well known celebrity. Now that would be really exciting!

Cheri

My good friend Cheri came to visit for a couple days from Portland. It's always soooo good to see her. We stopped by the Maple Valley Farmers Market and then went to see my daughters soccer game in the morning. Then we followed up with a little lunch and a little shopping before Cheri headed out to visit some other friends.

Cheri had a dinner date on Friday night and I just had to take her photograph before she left 'cus she looked so gorgeous!