Avanti Glass Studio (and of course AvantiShops) will be moving back to Victoria this coming fall! With the huge artist community in Victoria, I will be able to bring lots of new things to the Shop, it’s so exciting! Please let me know if you want to be on the Launch Announcement list for the new studio…..
Here on Salt Spring Island the winters are quite rainy, so everything stays green year-round. Today it was very warm and sunny, and some of the flowering trees are blooming already. Everyone has been busy making new work, and it will all be in AvantiShops by the end of February.
If you want to be kept up-to-date on new fashions and styles, just register for the newsletter and specify your interest. I’m not a big enough company to be sending out frequent emails, so it’s only once a month!
I have another shop coming soon, too. It’s called Small Treasures. Let me know if you would like to receive the launch announcement! It won’t be for another couple months.
Best wishes to you, especially at this very sacred time of year, when new life begins to form…..
As far as AvantiShops, this winter I will be working on a new “look” for the shop (new software, one of my favorite things!) and getting new inventory online!
I encourage you to take a look at the prices on Hillcroft Design jewellery……. fine jewellery at unbelievable prices, because Audrey is starting to work on her 2009 collections. So she has offered you her heirloom-quality jewellery at wholesale pricing.
Wishing you Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Shalom, Peace, Joy, and Contentment.
from Valla at Avanti Glass Studio
Ordering functions are back to normal! Check out Hillcroft Design’s 50% off all Collections Sale….. you won’t find any better prices anywhere! Her new work will be on the site in a couple days, email me for a sneak preview! It is very unusual, truly one of a kind, delicate, luscious, and with a 35% discount!
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Hillcroft Design Collections are 50% off! What a great opportunity to add to your fine jewellery collection….. gemstones, pearls and all the other lovelies are just waiting to be yours!
For Kids - Jewellery Parties! Ages 6 - 12, Pre-Registration Required. I have put together some nifty beads and stringing materials, including 3 Princess beads made at Avanti Glass Studio, Czech seed beads, flowers and leaves, and some similar-coloured commercial beads in “Colour Mixes” that are prettily-packaged and just $10 each. The packaging is recycleable and reusable as gift packaging for the young designers’ creations. The Jewellery Parties are $15 for 2 hours of assistance and instruction. Parties are scheduled for December 15th and 29th and include a Colour Mix pack of their choice.
Cindy Jacobsen of Frogtalk Media has set up a very cool film studio and is taking appointments for Tuesdays through Fridays between 11 and 5, for people who are tech-savvy and would like to make a professional-quality live video of their Seasonal Greetings to send to friends and family via email. Just $29.95 for 1/2 hour and includes a bonus CD!
Avanti Glass Studio is offering some new work that is not yet in the AvantiShops catalog, so come by and see what’s glittering in the jewellery and home decor lines!
Avanti’s Christmas Event includes new work from Avanti Glass Studio, Hillcroft Design’s 50% off Sale, and a unique offering from Frogtalk Media: Cindy Jacobsen, a professional film-maker and teacher of the art, will assist you in creating your own live Holiday Greetings that you can email to your friends and loved ones. Save on cards and postage! You will also receive a bonus CD or DVD movie of your Greeting, and the compressed file will be perfect for emailing. Just $29.95 for this Gift of Love. Appointments required! Call the Studio for details and to book an appointment: 250.537.9476.
If you are not on the mailing list, or haven’t been to the studio this summer, you will have missed receiving a coupon for 10% off your first order on AvantiShops. If you want to shop and take advantage of the Hillcroft Design 25% Off sale AND use the 10% coupon, just join the mailing list….. there is a subscribe box on the main page. And I’ll forward the latest newsletter with the coupon code. Thanks!
Check out the great discounts on Hillcroft Design’s fine jewellery. Great value at exceptional pricing, with an extra bonus thrown in! The bonus is an extra 5% off until year-end. So 20% off + another 5% + the coupon saving of 10%…… a total of 35% off the regular pricing. Choose from 4 Collections as well as miscellaneous jewellery-box items.
Wait, you say, where’s the coupon? Well, if you visited the Avanti Glass Studio this past summer, you probably received a coupon for 10% off your first order. So, just to be fair to everyone, that coupon is available to all newsletter subscribers. You will receive it in the November news going out tomorrow. Just enter the coupon code when you are checking out, and an additional 10% will be taken off your total.
Remember, there’s Free Shipping on orders over $150! If you are looking for a gift for someone and just can’t decide, AvantiShops has Gift Vouchers available in $25, $50 and $100 denominations.
Coming September 1st - a new line of servingware made from reclaimed glass. Shelf glass and window glass is called “float glass” in the industry. Back in 1959, Pilkington Glass discovered a way to make both sides of a sheet of glass perfectly smooth…. the glass is poured out onto a bed of molten tin. So the resulting product has an “air side” and a “tin side.” The tin side fluoresces when viewed with a shortwave UV light.
But this makes the glass itself almost non-recycleable. The tin becomes an impurity. The glass can only be crushed for recycling. This is done in a couple places in North America, and the result (basically sand) is used in roadbuilding. The glass can’t be successfully remelted for use in commercial operations. What to do? It goes to landfills.
There are a few artisan companies that make tableware from float glass, but the Avanti line is a little different. Called Vetro Nuovo, it features a 22k gold border fired onto the rims of each piece. This is colloidal gold, gold in a liquid suspension, painted onto the glass and adhered in a kiln firing. Naturally, they are handwash items. (Dishwasher detergent is extremely abrasive, and anything decorated with gold or made of crystal should not go into the dishwasher!)
To go along with the tableware, I’ve created some elegant napkin rings using some of the glass beads that are made here, the little pressed beads in round, diamond and square shapes. This line is named Bella! I’ve had them down in the gallery, and have sold most of the first lot, and have orders for more…. a good sign. But…… you’ll have to wait for the launch announcement to see!