Is This Glass?

While I was at the Gift Show I had dinner with a friend who works in glass. She was at the show buying for the store where she and her husband feature their own glass, along with selected merchandise of other sorts. She told me that a customer had picked up a leather bag and asked if it was made of glass! It reminded me of one of the funnier questions we get here at the store: "Do you make all this yourself?" Now we sell a lot of different things - toys, books, jewelry, music boxes, kaleidoscopes, and these many different things are made out of a lot of different things - wood, plastic, metal, paper, glass, porcelain, fabric to name a few. I'm so tempted to say, "Why yes, in fact, we make it all right behind that door in our little workshop!" But I don't say that. I say, "No, we just find it and sell it - that keeps us so busy we wouldn't have time!" I think they're really commenting that they find our items unusual. They haven't seen these items before so it seems reasonable that we might make them all here at the store. If only we were that talented!