On 8th December I published a post showing my winning raffle ticket prize of an entrance ticket to the Stourbridge Glass museum. We decided to visit on Friday as it was a lovely, sunny but cold day. I love glass anyway but it was amazing. The beauty of the building is that they are all geared up to sustainability and energy conservation. They have installed solar panels for electricity and the furnace in the working glass studio is run on electricity and not gas. The craftsman and women were a joy to watch.
There were so many cabinets full of glass of all kinds that we spent a couple of hours just looking at everything contained within. It was all so beautiful, especially the cameo glass.....
Just across the road is another small glass museum which has free entry and an independent coffee shop adjacent to it, so we popped over there for a quick lunch, then went back into the main museum for another mooch. I didn't know that Northwood Carnival Ware was so varied.....
At the entrance, there is some vintage glass for sale and I couldn't NOT buy a beautiful Waterford water glass priced at £2.50.....
.....and a smaller water/ juice glass which might have been Stuart Crystal, also priced at £2.50....
....as well as a Chance glass plate for my Christmas table for mince pies/ Christmas cake. Apparently, the design was originally for Crystal Palace. Wow... at £3 it had to come home with me....
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Right...I'm off to give the bathroom a good clean, do the ironing and check that my final supermarket delivery next week has all I need on the order. Bye!
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Thanks for popping in. Stay safe and well wherever you happen to be,
Angie 💗
Wow, that glass plate is just gorgeous! Who knew that there could be so many different types of glass things, some of them look more like pottery.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful day out. The plate is so pretty, a great souvenir
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a really good visit and I love your new plate
ReplyDeleteWell worth forking out for another year's membership I think, and what beautiful pieces of glass you bought. I gave away all my crystal glass when we moved, even the Auction House didn't want it. We've done a small shop run, been to Oxfam to donate a large bag of books, had lunch. Then I was very good and cleaned both cars inside and out. I begrudge paying someone to do it whilst I still can. Xx
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