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The making of an Oiva Toikka Iittala Glass Bird
Recently, a friend and I decided to take a random trip down to the Tacoma Museum of Glass. I hadn't been before and was eager to see their Hot Shop at work.
When we arrived the hot shop was on a lunch break, but soon later we headed in and settled ourselves down to watch the glass blowers at work.
Two of the artists wandered in to the hot shop area and moseyed over to chat with each other just in front of our seats. As I watched I realised they were studying the Oiva Toikka birds book and chatting in some kind of Scandinavian language. It didn't take me long to notice their T-Shirts either, one was wearing an Iittala T-Shirt and the other's was emblazoned with Nuutajarvi.
I contemplated to myself what these little clues might mean, and it wasn't long before they got to work and the MC of the show confirmed my suspicions. I had been lucky enough to randomly wander into their "Birds" weekend which is held once a year and the two artists were indeed visiting glass blowers from the Iittala and Nuutajarvi factories in Finland!
What a treat it was to watch them work, my friend and I sat there for close to two hours enjoying the process and I managed to get a little bit of video to share with my friends.
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Permalink Reply by CheriShops - Admin on -
Oh what a treat! Thanks so much for sharing that :)
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Permalink Reply by Charmed Life on -
oooh. What fun. I love that museum. Did you cross over the Chihuly bridge and look at all the glass in the old train station? (I think that's what the building was, or was it a post office?).
I used to live just up the road from the museum.
Now I'm homesick-er.
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Permalink Reply by Catisfaction on -
I think it's a government building of some kind, cause we were there on the weekend it didn't appear to be open :( We did cross the bridge though :)
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Permalink Reply by Charmed Life on
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May be a post office. I just can't remember right now. (I blame old age.)
I'm still green with envy. I've spent hours there ... maybe next trip home we'll have to go back for a visit.
To that and the million other places I miss !!!
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Permalink Reply by Catisfaction on
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I know that feeling. I think it all the time. But I know that next time I head home I'll be spending all my time shut up in records offices hunting for long dead ancestors lol!
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Permalink Reply by Charmed Life on
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HA !!! We do that, too. Hubby has traced ancestors to certain east coast cities. We make trips to visit cemeteries and records offices. It was pretty exciting to hold documents from the very early 1800s in our hands (with gloves, of course).
My family is all over Europe (I'm only 2nd generation American), so it would cost a fortune to track any of it down.
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Permalink Reply by Catisfaction on
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Yeah I've hit the point now where I really need to be on site, sifting through old records that haven't been put up online. That and the Irish side is being a real handful to find!!
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