We listed a few pieces of pretty Murano art glass that is made in Italy.

The glass is blown and formed into beautiful decorative pieces.

Murano is a region in Italy that is famous for producing these beautiful glass creations.

In the year 1291, glassmakers were forced to move from Venice to the Murano islands just north of that famous city.

The Venice town rulers feared the glass foundries would destroy the city’s wood buildings.

The glassmakers flourished and became quite affluent and prominent throughout Europe.

Today the artisans still apply the same century old techniques to create beautiful art glass, jewelry, and chandeliers.

History and tradition are a part of each of these beautiful pieces.

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We have a nice selection of pretty art glass pieces, and will be adding more for the holiday season.

Many of them can be used as paperweights or just enjoyed as they beautiful works of art they are.

From round glass balls, to hand formed hearts, their colors are just beautiful.

More of these beauties can be found here.

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I just performed an experiment on Google.

I did a blog post on 9/5 that featured a set of Mikasa Bear and Bull Bottle stoppers.

This item has been listed in my store for many months as we have quite a few of them in our inventory.

I submit a feed to Google Base that includes all my store items, on the average of every 2-3 days.

Doing a search for these bottle stoppers pulls up my blog post from 9/5 on the first page.  Very impressive since it is a recent post.

What bothered me though, even when I put the title of the item and included my store name in the search - nothing at all came up for my website store.

All I can think of is that I must have something wrong somewhere with the keywords or titles or ?????

I have recently had my website redesigned, but that should not affect any of the items coming up in searches - the database has not changed.

I would think that Google having my items in their Froogle base would have some effect on the searches.

I guess not.

I will do some research to see what I can come up with.

If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them!

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A pretty piece of art glass in the shape of an apple is the perfect gift for a teacher.

This clear glass paperweight has little flecks of gold and several bubbles suspended in the center.

It measures 5 inches high and 12 inches around.

To see a larger picture, please visit this link and click on the photo to enlarge it.

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