A Stunning Statement; Tortoise Pitcher Steuben Glass

The Tortoise Pitcher by Steuben Glass is designed to serve. With its fluid lines and and slender body it gracefully fills everyone's glass, like the matching Tortoise Martini or Double Old Fashion glass. Whether mixing a festive Sangria or serving ice cold water, this pitcher compliments any bar, table service or get together. It is a great gift for the new couple or those celebrating a milestone together; it can even be engraved for a personal touch. Click here to view more of the Steuben Glass giftware and barware available at Sallie home.

Price: $900

Celebrate the New Year with Class: Varga Crystal Champagne Flutes

If people start decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving even happens, then its ok to start thinking about New Years Eve before Christmas even happens. New Years Eve is one of the best celebrations of the year, so why not go eleborate? While you are preparing, remember everything leads up the champagne toast and kiss at midnight - why not make this a memorable moment with Varga Crystal Champagne Flutes? Varga Crystal is flawless and impeccable, there would be no classier way to enter the new year. For a simply elegant toast, check out the Varga Art Crystal Simplicity Flute; it is stunning in its simplicity. For a more ornate and embellished toast, ponder the Varga Art Crystal Avignon; divine in all its detail. Ring in the 2009 year with class! Two flutes would make a great host or hostess gift. Click here to view all of the Varga Crystal stemware and barware available at Sallie home.

Relive the Renaissance Like Royalty With Varga Art Crystal Stemware

The Renaissance was an amazing era for the world; it was a time of intellectual pursuit in areas of the arts, philosophy, politics, science, literature, and religion. It was a time for grandeur and the Renaissance collection by Varga Art Crystal embodies this characteristic of the movement. Made with impeccable Hungarian craftsmanship, each piece is hand-cut with a crown design, symbolizing royalty. Like the linear perspective developed in painting during this era, each glass is created keeping lines in mind. Like the straight body of the highball glasses and the stems that draw the eye up and down on flute, martini, wine, and water glasses. The Renaissance design is available in clear, raspberry, sky blue, amber, and yellow/green.

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Price: $150 - $450

Personalize Your Stemware: Varga Art Crystal Monogramming

Picking out china and crystal is a very personal thing, it expresses who you are. What better way for you to express yourself than by monogramming your initials onto your china or crystal. Varga Art Crystal offers a monogramming service using their same skillful techniques used when etching patterns onto their crystal. The crystal wine, water, flute, martini, DOF, highball glasses can all be monogrammed adding to their original brilliance. Even the whiskey decanter can be monogrammed, making it a perfect personal gift.

For even more personalization, they offer two styles of lettering, Vegetal and Ruban, and six different formats for the lettering. To order online from Sallie home, once in the checkout process, there will be a "note" box. Please specify what lettering and format you want your monogram in. Or just call 1-800-257-9167. To view more amazing Varga Art Crystal stemware and barware available at Sallie home, click here.

Wine 101: Vagabond House Antler Corkscrew

The Vagabond House Corkscrew is a wonderful gift for the wine connoisseur. This is a stunning piece to add to a barware collection . The handle of the corkscrew is made from Vagabond's House's classic naturally shed stag antler. The rest of the corkscrew is simple, with a black body and pewter wings. The rustic look and feel of this wine corkscrew makes it a perfect gift for a Dad on Father's Day. To add this corkscrew and other wonderful Vagabond House pieces to your barware collection, click here.

Price: $101

Simply Divine: Varga Art Crystal's Simplicity Stemware

Simplicity is beauty in its purest form, especially when you start with Varga's Crystal. Varga Art Crystal's Simplicity stemware may be more plain and unadorned than Varga's other collections but definitely doesn't lack in comparison. This crystal will surely stand out in even the most extravagant events.

The Simplicity stemware is simply divine! The stem is skillfully cut for comfort and elegance. At the base of the glass there are subtle yet stunning oval cut circles that add much to its "ahh-quota". Because of this stemware's simplicity, it is a very popular glass to etch with a monogram. This collection is also available in Sky Blue, Raspberry, Amber, or a Yellow/Green.

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Price: $115-$135

Save Your Wine With Carrol Boyes's Wine Bottle Stoppers

I rarely ever finish a bottle of wine in one night but I hate wasting the wine. To save the wine for a later date, I typically use the bottle's cork to stop up the bottle. The cork works fine; that is when little pieces of the cork don't flake off and fall into the wine or the bottle, like most now-a-days, uses a plastic cork which i often have trouble fitting back into the bottle. In addition to these problems, I find the cork to look a little tacky, especially if I'm having a dinner party. Fortunately, I have found a beautiful solution. Carrol Boyes has a fabulous collection of uniquely stylized bottle stoppers.

Carrol Boyes truly creates functional art with these stoppers. With Carrol Boyes bottle stoppers you can top your bottle with a crown, a sultan, a woman, a table bay, or a moghul. These bottle stops are the prefect gift for anyone or any occasion; whether you are saying thank you for coming to my bridal shower or saying hello to your new neighbor. Gift giving is in the details and presentation, it is a visible way to show your appreciation and love; so why not tie one of these bottle stops around the neck of bottle or attach one to a gift-box when giving stem or barware? Click here to view all the stemware and barware available at Sallie Home.

Vagabond House: The Finest Pewter For Your Home

Vagabond House, like their name suggests, creates pieces for your house inspired by their experiences and memories traveling globally. They have gained a reputation for their fine pewter and even more so for their use of naturally shed antler for handles. All their serving pieces, tableware and barware will add an outdoorsy, rugged accent to any home.

One of my favorite pieces from Vagabond House is their English Pewter Mug with Shed Antler handle. It is a distinctive pewter mug meticulously accented with pewter ridging and a naturally shed antler handle. I picture myself sitting by a fire, in a cabin, during the dead of winter drinking out of this beautiful mug. This English Pewter mug will warm up your house, but will keep your beer refreshingly cold. Click here to view all of Vagabond House’s luxury, high polished and innovatively designed pewter products for your home.

"Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh My!": Varga Art Crystal Safari Stemware For Your Bar

"Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh My!" Animal prints have been ever so popular in home decorating and this trend is not dying out anytime soon. Now and in the spring, there have been, and will be, lots of safari prints to fill and accessorize your home. If you love this motif, then you'll love these Varga Art Crystal Safari stemware and barware that perfectly compliment any spot, stripe or leopard print on your walls, floors or tabletop.

The Safari collection by Varga has an exquisite array of giraffes, elephants, cheetahs, gazelles and other indigenous African animals and vegetation hand-etched onto Varga's beautiful, top-quality clear crystal. The details are so intricate the African safari landscape will come alive in your hand. The decorated crystal comes in a full set of stemware and barware, including decanters, brandy sniffers and martini glasses. My favorite is the Varga Safari Ships Decanter. It's the perfect gift for any animal lover.

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Varga Art Crystal: Athens Crystal Stemware for the Table

According to wine enthusiasts, the glass directly affects the savor of the wine. To truly appreciate and enjoy wine, one has to understand the role the eye plays in conjunction with the mouth while drinking wine. So I ask, what better way is there to please your eye than to drink from a beautifully crafted Varga 'Athens Collection' wine glass?

Varga Art Crystal's one-of-a-kind stemware is produced by Hungarian craftsman who hand-cut and intricately engrave each glass, turning ordinary crystal into works of art. The Athens pattern illustrates the uniqueness and skill of Varga's stemware that has captured the likes of presidents, royalty, heads of state, and corporations who have started giving Varga Art Crystal as gifts and awards.

The Athens Collection also exhibits another strength of Varga that separates them from the rest; color. The Athens Collection is available, not only in clear but, in Raspberry, Sky Blue, Amber, Cobalt, and Yellow/Green, as well. With all these color choices, it is easy to find the perfect stemware to compliment your dinnerware; making entertaining colorful and elegant at the same time. Click here to go directly to Sallie Home's Varga crystal stemware, barware, and gifts page.