It's the Great Glass Green Pumpkin! A new New York addition to our collection.

Our new green glass pumpkin arrived from Brooklyn's Urban Glass and it did not disappoint!

Like Linus in Charlie Brown's Halloween classic, we believe in great pumpkins. But, unlike Charlie Brown's best friend, our expectation of a great pumpkin's visit didn't disappoint -  it was real, it was spectacular and it came from Brooklyn's Urban Glass.

This month my husband, Chris, and I,  were in New York for our son and daughter-in-law's wedding and, on our last full day in Brooklyn, enroute from our hotel to the newlywed's home, we passed by Urban Glass. Their retail shop got our attention immediately, but since we were short on time, we decided we'd come back the next day before heading to the airport.

Picture taken from outside the store. Beautiful pumpkins (and more!)

Unfortunately, in our haste, we had failed to look at their posted hours, and, as we returned on Monday, Urban Glass was closed. However, we were hoping we could still be recipients of one of their beautiful glass gourds, so we snapped a few pictures and focused in on the one we wished to add to our ever-growing glass pumpkin menagerie.

Back in Detroit, I sent an email to Urban Glass with the photo and the request for the third pumpkin from the left. Not long after I hit "send", I received a most friendly call from Megan who already had our prized pumpkin set aside. After the requisite contact and payment information, our special delivery was sent and, what seemed like less time than Linus spent waiting in the patch for his great pumpkin, it arrived at our door. 

Our Brooklyn pumpkin resides with other similarly hued glass gourds in our collection.

The great green pumpkin is beautiful and an impressive addition to our collection (see our recent blog story "It's beginning to look a lot like Autumn. .  . Pumpkins in all the colors of the Rainbow"). We're now grouping it with our emerald pumpkin from Newport, RI and our "Monet" special edition from Harbor Springs, MI. I'm quite certain, this will not be the last of our purchases from Urban Glass.

In fact, we learned that Urban Glass, in addition to a wide selection of glass items, offers classes as well. Perhaps a class or two may also be in the future.

Our great pumpkin did not disappoint. In that spirit, we hope, some day, Linus, gets his great pumpkin, too.

In the meantime, Happy Halloween from Barb's Tea Service, and happy carving to those who create with the traditional pumpkins!