Our birthday party is Sept 28th! Get your name in the hat to win over 25 prizes!

Hey everyone! Its time to celebrate our 13th birthday, woot, and raise some funds for forum projects and maintenance. Coming up soon, our live online birthday party! This is super fun to participate in! The date you've all been waiting for...is...:bouncy:


******Please note: My original thread was behaving strangely, some glitch with the articles system. It was not showing the thread in "new posts" or "activity stream" and we lost a lot of exposure because of it. Sadly I could not fix it, so ....here's the birthday info, take two! In light of this I've changed the date to give us a few more days to get the word out. My apologies for the confusion.******

Mark your calendars for September 28th at 6pm PST!!

We'll be celebrating our 13 years of sharing glass knowledge with each other by playing glass games and raffling off prizes. You have to be present to participate in the glass games, but you don't have to be present to win the prizes. You won't know which items are game prizes or raffle prizes unless you come to the event on the 28th!! :D

Get your name in the hat to win the prizes by donating to our community!
We’re giving free entries to anyone who donates while the birthday banner is up, before the main event. $5 donation gets you 1 free entry, $20 gets you 5, and $100 gets you 25 entries! Your donation to the forum also gets you the shiny green flame badge, which shows you’re a supporter of TMP in the year 2013. There's a donation button at the bottom of the forum. Please make sure to include your username with your donation so I can badge you and enter you into the giveaways.

Check out some of the party donations!! :D There will quite possibly be items given away during the live event that aren't unveiled yet. :devilish: Please note, you have to be over 18 to win any of the pipes! I'm sure you all know that, but just in case I have to put it out there. ;)

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Thank you to all the wonderful artists and companies that have donated these amazing items and made this event possible!! We heart you!



If you want to donate a prize to our event, hit me up! There’s still time, providing you can take a picture of your donation soon, and mail it to the winner at the end of the event. This also earns you the 2013 supporter badge! :) AND! Entries into the upcoming giveaways. For every $10 worth of goods/glass you donate to the fundraiser I will enter your name to win. PM me for details so we can avoid shipping things to winners twice!

There's no purchase or donation necessary to enter to win, we want to include everyone! To enter without one of the donation methods, simply send a self addressed and stamped envelope, with a note that includes your forum name to: The Melting Pot - PO Box 15173 - Duluth, MN 55811 Sending me cool stickers to give away and stick on people's stations will get you extra entries. :D

If you've never been to one of our online parties, check out the TMP birthday forum to see the previous years celebrations.

Thanks again to all of you who support our little community, and Happy 13th to TMP!!

Your donations help the prize pool grow. :D

I know this is a lot of info to read, so think of this as a mini game with a bonus round and bear with me. :crazy:

Here are additional items that have been donated. Thank you to all of our wonderful supporters!! :heart: To see more of the items go from the second post here, up into the first post where everything is going to be given away during our live birthday party, donate to the forum!

We will be adding more of these items to the party giveaways as donations to the forum come in. This is to try to ensure the value raised for the items is what the contributors valued their donations at. Otherwise, the items can be found listed for auction or sale in the Birthday Celebrations Subforum :)

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In addition to the live party, we’re doing auctions for items donated by the awesome members of our community. We have some gorgeous pieces from you guys, and hope you’ll help us spread the word about the auctions and the event. Dropping links/info on facebook, instagram, and such, will really help out our efforts. :)

GTT has pledged a very generous donation this year...drumroll please!!

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The auction for the Delta Mag has taken place already. Congrats to NoDice for taking her home! and thank you GTT for the awesome support of our community. :blowkiss::blowkiss::blowkiss:

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Naughty beads! - Galaxy auction!


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Naughty beads! - Calla Lily auction!!


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Naughty beads! - Tulips auction!


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Royal's dome auction!


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Devil pipe auction!


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Creature chillum auction!



These items below have been sold already, but check them out anyway because they are rad, and so are the people who donated them. :D

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Also a special thanks to ABR who ran their own TMP birthday fundraiser and made a generous donation to the forum! Check out this thread to see what they did, and thank you DaveABR!! :blowkiss:


Check back for more updates!! I'm still working on editing pictures for a few items, like a marble from Yinz and a pendant from GoofBallGlass!! :)

So...which one of those awesome items that are in post two do you want to see move to post one and be given away at the birthday party, first? :D

So many choices ...so much awesome stuff.... the brass tools would look very nice on my bench.

I really like the rig by Firearm Glass, and the Millies!

Very cool. That one week of studio time is awesome. A nice excuse to travel.

Wow. There is an amazing amount of awesomeness in here. Literally something for everyone. Can't wait for the birthday party Meesh!

Any second votes for the rig, tools or millies being moved into the giveaways? :D What's your top choice?

I vote for the piece by Whipkey Glass. Hard to pick out one from all the awesomeness, but that one is just so classy and elegant looking!

Is the one by Whipkey a rig? i can't tell, but it looks amazing!

No Mr Porn, Whipkey makes beautiful Vessels, not smoking equipment....His entry is my favorite in this event!

I'm sorry that some of them are hard to tell, I should have marked them! I will go through today and mark them functional or not, and try to get all the info I had before plugged back in.

The Mecha (whipkey) piece is gorgeous, one of my favorites from him in fact. :D

i didn't think it was, but I wanted to ask. Most things you can tell :P. I really like it as well. Do people actually use vessels like that, or are they decor? Looking at it, i kind of want to fill it with Absinthe. lol.

If it were mine, I'd have to serve tea out of it once in awhile. :D It's too gorgeous not to!

mmmmm millies

Sorry I haven't been able to mark all the pics yet. Are there any others that you guys aren't sure if it's a pipe or not? Since there's so many to mark/edit I'll just mark the non-functional items and leave the pipes unmarked.

****Addition to the prize pool!!!****

TMP is adding one of our limited edition t-shirts to the giveaways! We have only a few sizes left of our latest shirt, made by the awesome Icarus. :D Choices will be limited to sizes small, large, and 2xl. Here are some pics of the shirt in action! :D

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There are very few of these shirts left but there are still a few available for purchase, hit up this thread for more info!

We have an awesome addition to the party! The killer rig by Firearm is moving into the giveaway prize pool by popular request! :clap: Our awesome prize pool keeps growing! :D

Firearm has been blowing glass since 1999. His interests are heady and scientific glass, incorporating sandblasting into glass, electroplating and art layout on glass. He has an all new product line coming out soon for 2014 so keep an eye out!

You can find Firearm on facebook at Firearm Glass, on ioffer.com under the user name Amber85k and on instagram @firearmglass.

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The rig he made for a special TMP winner is a Boardwalk Empire cup style featuring decals of gangsters and tommy guns! Plus a few bullet holes! The piece stands 9 inches tall, the can is 4 and a half inches tall and features 12 hole diffuser, 14 mm joints, and straw style mouthpiece. It comes complete with a skull dabber dome and nail. This piece has a retail value is $150, and you have a chance to win it by donating to our forums! Get your name in the hat before Sept 28th! :bouncy:

Thanks again, Firearm! Your support of the community is priceless! :blowkiss:

Check out what we're adding to the prize pool!! :D $100 gift card to Glasscraft, woot! Big thanks to www.GlassCraftInc.com for the support of our community by donating this killer prize. :D :blowkiss:



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There's less than a week to donate to the community and get your name in the hat to win this and other fantastic prizes! :bouncy:

Only a couple days til the party!! Woot!!

Hey btw guys, if you can't see the donate button it's probably because you are blocking ads. You can donate via paypal at eugenerain@gmail.com but please include a note with your user name and let me know it's a donation so I can get you badged and entered into the drawings!