Glass Gazing Balls Introduction
Glass Gazing Balls nestle in the cool damp grass their bright round bodies reflecting back the deepest greens and blues of grass and sky, huge daisies and bees. The smell of the morning dew frosting the ground is fresh and inviting.
There is something imaginative and mysterious about garden gazing balls. They hold the power of time in their shimmering globes. A mystry of a world that only they can see, for whilst they reflect back your garden to you, what they hold within is a hidden secret, one that they have carried with them since their creation in the 13 century perhaps even before as time itself has captured the essence and mystry of the sphere right back before records began.
Blue glass gazing ball
So what is it that facinates us so in these beautiful spheres? Is it their beauty? Their mystry? Or perhaps that they hold a mystical power in their shape that we just do not understand but are naturally drawn to. Perhaps it is just because we see beauty in their shape?
Whatever the reason they have remained popular for 700 years! They are even more popular today then ever before. Whereas before only the rich and powerful such as kings and gentry could enjoy them today they are within the reach of everyone. Modern technology and advances in our standard of living means that these beautiful ornaments can be enjoyed by all.
This does not mean that today’s glass gazing balls are inferior or that you can no longer have something truly unique. No that is just not so. Your glass gazing balls can be and will be unique. This is because it is the nature of glass blowing that each one is different than the others. So even if you buy a massed produced one, you will know that your gazing ball is special. It belongs to you and it is the only one of it’s kind.