I love when you get to explore where you live and discover hidden treasures. Yesterday morning I met up with two friends to begin our adventure!
Okay, backstory here. I’m a Cincinnati native living in Michigan (kinda Detroit suburbs) so I’m still figuring out this whole Michigan thing. Some days I love it and I ALWAYS love my friends up here; whereas some days it snows for two months straight and I’m ready to pack it up and kiss the frozen tundra goodbye. So you’ll have to forgive me if I should’ve known about these places before hand but didn’t.
Our destination was to go to Dearborn and explore the “Glass Academy.” On our way down we stopped and grabbed Mediterranean food because when in Rome you do as the Romans do! (If your not from here and that reference went beyond your head let me fill you in all the best middle eastern food is in Dearborn.) We had some amazing Hummus and Chicken Shawarma sandwiches. (Sorry I forgot to grab a picture.)
From there we drove down some narrow streets then found parking to enter a hidden paradise. When we first walked in they were showing off their new purple pumpkin which gives 10% of the proceeds to a local organic farm in Ann Arbor. Who doesn’t love shopping local and supporting local.
We decided to sit down and watch the demonstrations where they were making custom orders in front of us. I don’t know about you guys but this was absolutely fascinating watching as they were working with molten glass!
After the demonstrations we explored their studio for a little. I took thousands of pictures of all the unique and individual pumpkins. It was like walking in a glass pumpkin patch!
I finally settled on an adorable light blue almost teal glass pumpkin that will make an adorable addition to my fall decor.
They were sharing flyers for their Christmas show which also looked pretty impressive. I can honestly say I can’t wait to go back and explore again.
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