We have just added a great, new addition to the Beverage Glasses and Tumblers section of our Glassware department, the awesome, striking, mesmerizing Mine coloured glass tumblers, from Kosta Boda. These glasses are the unique design of Ulrica Hydman-Vallien, who for close to 40 years has been designing glassware for Kosta Boda, and is recognized as one of the world's foremost designers in this medium. Her works have been displayed in museums around the world, and she has lectured on her art and techniques in Germany and in the United States.

The inky swirls of the Mine tumblers are indeed unique, and this glassware collection will take its place in any home bar or dining area as a true work of art, to be enjoyed with every sip of beverage.

Shown in Lime, the tumblers are also available in Pink, Turquoise, and White.

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Tags: Kosta Boda, Tumblers

After working non-stop for what seemed like forever, we can finally announce that our 2011 all-new Halloween Shop is up and running!

See hundreds of new products in our Halloween Costumes, Halloween Decorations, Halloween Masks, Halloween Movies, and Halloween Music sections, plus interesting articles about Halloween traditions and Halloween-Scary events, including our newest tome, Ghost Stores: The General Wayne Inn. Our Costumes section features a dozen sub-categories, such as Scary Costumes, Sexy Costumes, Classic Halloween Costumes, and more, and our Movies section includes an all-new array of Halloween classics and super-scary but maybe less well known skin-crawling thrillers. We will be adding new scary stuff during the Halloween season, but new and popular Halloween costumes and decorations sell out fast, so if you see it today, don't wait to place your order, it may be gone soon!

"Worked To Death" Halloween Prop

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Tags: Halloween

We are very happy to offer an expanded collection of lead-free crystal from Ravenscroft.

On our old site, we did offer Ravenscroft decanters, but now in addition to decanters, we also are featuring a full line of Ravenscroft wine glasses.

A world leader in environmentally friendly factory operations, Ravenscroft early on recognized the dangers inherent in leaded crystal,

and has in the past two decades emerged as the leading force in manufacturing hand-made, pure, clean, lead-free crystal, and in beautiful, artistic designs. In addition to producing crystal glassware under their own name, Ravenscroft also produces crystal for numerous additional companies, under a variety of merchant brand names. To the left, is the Ravenscroft St. Jacques Lead-Free Crystal Decanter, featured in our Revenscroft Decanters section. This 44 ounce dishwasher safe crystal decanter makes a striking presence in your home bar, in your den, or in the dining room. The St. Jacques is one of more than two dozen lead-free crystal wine and spirits decanters from Ravenscroft that we currently feature. In addition, our Ravenscroft Wine Glass section features Bordeaux, Burgundy, Cabernet, Chardonnay, Chianti, German Riesling, Pinot Noir, Sake/Sherry, Sauternes, Sauvignon, Vintage Port, and White Burgundy glasses, among others.

Several of our other Glassware sections also feature items from Ravenscroft. For example, in our Cocktail and Highball Glasses section, we offer Cognac, Brandy and Single Malt Snifters.

Years of experience, a commitment to modern manufacturing techniques, and a pervasive concern for protecting the earth's resources and people combine to make Ravenscroft the first choice for glassware among millions of people around the world.

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Tags: Ravenscroft, Decanters, Wine Glasses, Snifters

Nifty-home-bar.com has been around for more than 9 years, and after close to a decade with our original site design, we felt we had to do a major update, and we've worked for two months re-designing and re-programing our site design, and totally updating our product catalog. We've also made a slight, but important, change to our URL, changing it from the original NiftyHomeBar.com to the new, more search-engine friendly Nifty-Home-Bar.com (please change your bookmarks accordingly).

We are now extremely happy to unveil our new site, and we would love to see comments, good and bad, about our new design and its features. Note - this Blog is brand new, as is our Drink Recipe Log.

What did we do right, and what did we do wrong? What should we change? What should we add?

We know there will be glitches, and we hope to find then and fix them before our visitors do, but we would like to know about any we've missed.

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Tags: New Site