Sandblasted glass art by Zephyr

Sweet! I just got a great big box of beautiful sandblasted art glass by Zephyr via UPS today. I am gonna have the Coolest Home Bar Evar!

I couldn't get very good pictures indoors today, so I decided to use some of Zephyr's pics below so that you can see how cool her work really is. And let me tell you, when you see it in person, it's actually so much better than you would think from the photos (mine or hers). For one thing, the glassware she designs onto is much thicker and more durable looking than the pint glasses I'm used to seeing in commercial settings or stores. Not sure where she gets those. And the sandblasted designs stand out more in person. And the glass itself is really nice and clear (well, except on the tinted glass of course).

I rarely visit Ebay, so I can't quite remember how I found Zephyr's art there. But I was immediately so totally taken with it that I had to track her down and talk about buying in quantity. I mean, yeah, I did send her a message through the system but I was so jazzed about her work that I really wanted one of everything (which would actually be hundreds of pieces not just the 18 designs you see below). So I did some clever googling and wound up at her website Zephyr's Art. She's very fun to talk to and we've had a few fun exchanges of email.

We ended up doing a trade, which is something I really enjoy when it works… I sent her a 30" Beach Burner Portable Bonfire and she sent me the best barware I could ever hope to hoist around a fire. I'd have been perfectly happy to spend cash money, by the way… (shipping and materials for the firepit wound up costing just as much as buying the glass) but trading is kind of fun for its own sake, because of the connection you wind up with. I know that while I'm having a little bourbon out of the fish skeleton Hi Ball glass Z made, she could well be sipping a beer by a fire held in the Beach burner I sent her. It's a cool thing.

Zephyr Rocks! Go buy a bunch of her art, right now. There are slightly different collections available on her Etsy store or her Ebay store so you should probably check them both out.

You know what, I wouldn't even mind if you bought so much of her work that I only had the second coolest home bar ever!