blown glass, hand blown glassI was reminded last night how safe a person has to be when handling hand blown glass after my roommate blindly swung a vase around, cracking it on the edge of our metal legged coffee table. The vase was sitting on a built-in shelf under one of our stand up living room lights. He wanted to move all the stuff off this lamp shelf so he could try moving the lamp elsewhere. In the process, he accidently smacked the semi-thick blown glass on the table and to the ground in pieces it went. By the look on his face, you would have thought he just saw a car crash. Luckily, it only broke into a few larger pieces instead of a complete shatter, which made it easy to clean up.

Down one piece of blown glass, now we have the opportunity to pick out something new online. As a fellow roommate, I couldn’t get mad at his mistake. I’m actually happy because even though the vase was mine he is adamant about replacing it so now we get to choose a new piece to purchase online.