Miniature Glass figurines - 8

Last time I've posted all new cats in my collection, now let's go with the dogs.

Badger-dog:

Sal the Dalmatian:

Sal the Dalmatian has great guarding and hunting instincts. He’s always bursting with energy so he needs to get outside and exercise often. He has an affinity for horses and loves to run alongside them. Sal has outstanding endurance and agility. He’s quite friendly with those he trusts but aloof with strangers. Sal was born in Croatia, January 15, 2009.
Channing the Chihuahua:

Channing the Chihuahua loves to play in the sprinklers on a summer afternoon. She thinks it’s hilarious to get wet and then shake off next to people. Channing enjoys chewing on designer shoes and she always tries to sleep in her owner’s bed. She likes to be picked up but will not tolerate being carried in a purse. Channing was born September 26, 2009.

The "biography" of Channing and Sal I took from here. This is an amazing page for miniature glass figurines collectors. 

Miniature Glass figurines - 7

Last couple weeks were really productive in terms of growing of my collection of miniature glass figurines. I got a lot of new cute small animals. I don't want to put all of them in one post because it will be too much - so today I'll share only three new cats. 

Love them all:

Miniature glass figurines - 6

Two more glass figurines in my collection. They came from Ukraine. 

Miniature glass figurines - 5

New items in my miniature glass figurine collection. I brought them from Ukraine.

The dog:

The Sheep

And the bull:

Miniature glass figurines - 4

Last weekend I visited Museum of American glass. And I found new animals for my collection in gift shop of this museum. My new  findings are the smallest ones I have.

To see the rest of my collection click here. 

Miniature glass figurines - 3

Here and here I already posted some of my miniature glass figurines, but after all holidays my collection has grown and I have couple more cute miniature animals.

Dragon:

Frog #1

Cute pink pig:

Bluebird of happiness

Frog #2 (frogs figurines bring money in your life by feng shui so more frogs more money:))

Just dog, but I like him:)

Orange parrot

Green turtle

and white rabbit:

Seasonal Glass Figurines: Santa Claus and Snowman

I found one more shop where I can buy miniature glass figurines: lookingglassworld.com. Luckily it is located in USA. Figurines in this shop is a little bit lager than those I bought in other places but they have really high quality and made with incredible attention to details.

Christmas is almost here so I have bought Santa Claus and Snowman. They are CUTE:

There are two more Christmas figurines in this shop: Rudolph and Angel. They are beautiful but all figurines in this store are a little bit expensive so I am going to ask Santa to bring them to me as a gift :) 

Another great finds for my miniature glass figurines collection

My visit to Ukraine was very productive in terms of finding new items for my collections. First of all I was able to buy handmade magnets, than I found store with tens of miniature glass figurines. I spent a lot of time while trying to figure out which ones I wont and finally came up with fox (some of my friends think it is squirrel but I made executive decision that it is fox), smiling moose and giraffe. 

 

Miniature glass figurines

I spent whole Wednesday in the airports and plains so I missed my Wednesday weekly column "invited guest". This week my post will be a little bit different. At first it is Friday. At second this post - looking for artist, not promotion of artist. Looks like in addition to magnets and license plates I start to collect miniature glass animals. Now I have four of them: lady bug, cat, crab and penguin. Here they are:

So I started to surf internet to look for the masters who do such beautiful things and what I found - a lot of stores, a lot of collectors, a lot of stories but no official web-pages of masters. Is it really sad. I also can be blind or stupid so if you know such web-pages just let me know. I would like to feature persons who can do such beautiful things in my blog as well as be their regular client:-) I want to by handmade stuff directly from artists not from persons who do nothing to create it.
What I found its couple shops (the links are in the end of post) that sell the hand-made blow animals, birds and other miniature figurines made by artist from Russia and Ukraine (St Petersburg, Moscow, Lutzk). The figurines presented at these shops are really nice and you know what - you will never find two similar ones.
They differ in shape, size, colors because they made by people not machines.

 

The only manufacturer web-page I found is Factory of Author's Glass. This factory produces wide variety of glass products: miniature glass figurines, glass souvenirs, sculptures, window stained glass. All products are hand-blown and handmaid. They have amazing figurines in their store but the bad news is - you can order only huge number of them (100 - if you order one figurine or set of 60 figurines).  See below some examples of of tiny animals and birds:

   

Here are the shops I found where these nice tiny things are sold:
www.chinaberry.com
http://russian-crafts.com/
http://glass-zoo.com/
http://www.therussianshop.com/
http://www.ukrsteklo.com.ua/
www.artglass.in.ua
www.cncraftandgift.com/
www.laskaglass.com/