2009 Ebay auctions are up right now!

http://shop.ebay.com/glasscastersunion/m.htm


New designs submitted by:
 



The Decemberists

Modest Mouse

Blitzen Trapper









Also, autographed ornaments from:

Bright Eyes



Wolf Parade

Built to Spill

Yacht

Califone

The Thermals

Black Lips

Menomena

Band of Horses

All proceeds from the sale of our ornaments go to help homeless and low income families in Eugene Oregon.

Well I guess it wouldn't be a Glass Casters Union charity auction without something going wrong.

Last year at this time, our furnace died on us and we couldn't make the Bright Eyes & Built to Spill ornaments.

This year our high tech laser etching machine took a high tech crap on us, right in the middle of etching the Bright Eyes & Black Lips ornaments.

What we have made was sold on ebay with the exception of 7 Bright Eyes & 3 Black Lips ornaments. They will be put up for auction in the next few days but there is a bonus. Each of the 7 Bright Eyes will come
with an autographed hang tag signed by Conor Oberst & each of the 3
Black Lips ornaments will have a hang tag signed by the entire band!!!

Oh yes, also we will have some Built to Spill autographed ornaments up for auction too!!!!

As far as the remainder of ornaments yet to make, they will most likely be sold after the holidays or maybe even next year, as it will be awhile till we can have our laser back in order.

Check out the article here:

G.C.U. Pitchfork Article

GCU are back with 5 new designs for the 2008 holidays!
Artwork submitted by:

Black Lips
Bright Eyes
Built to Spill
Iron & Wine
The Thermals

This year each limited edition recycled glass ornament is
etched with the bands design & filled with silver or gold color fill just
like Carson Ellis' ornaments from last year .

Again, absolutely all proceeds go to help out homeless & low income families
in Eugene Oregon.

 Our ornaments are available through our ebay auctions

here's  link

http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/glasscastersunion

or you can check out our myspace page to get our toll free number.

Thanks for supporting our charity!

 Come say hello to us. The Glass Casters Union will be selling what's left (not many) of the limited edition Wolf Parade ornaments that were designed by the band for our charity fundraiser.

They will be available at their merch table, so don't forget to pick one up after you purchase a WP t-shirt, CD or LP.

Ornaments are $10 each and all $$$ raised goes toward helping low income families & the homeless in Eugene Oregon. If you don't live in Portland & can't make it to the show & really need to have one, send us a email & maybe we can work something out.

Hope to see you there!

G.C.U.

Hey check it out, the incredibly awesome people over at Yellow Bird project
have printed up some Wolf Parade t-shirts to help benefit the G.C.U.!!! Now your favorite ornament (designed by Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner) can be proudly displayed on your chest!



Click the banner above to go directly to the YBP website & pick up one of these shirts!!! And remember, all proceeds help us raise funds for homeless and low income families in Eugene, Oregon.

Our furnace, which we use to melt our glass, was shut down to start some much needed repairs. This unfortunately means we won't get through all the designs we wanted to make.

Bright Eyes, Deerhunter, XIU XIU, The Thermals, White Rainbow, Built to Spill, Architecture In Helsinki & Iron And Wine Will all come out next season.

We will continue to sell what we have in stock on ebay & through this myspace page. If you want to purchace a ornament just send a email and we will give you our toll free number. We take Visa & MC or you can send a check or money order. Ornaments are $9.99 each (except Carson's sets) Shipping is generally $4.60 in the U.S.

Still in stock:

Wolf Parade (teal, clear & cobalt)
Band of Horses (clear, apricot) (aqua - sold out)
of Montreal (aqua, cobalt)
Thrones (emerald, teal)
SUNN O))) (amethyst, purple)
Califone (apricot) (clear) (emerald)
Tiny Masters of Today (clear - not many left) (apricot)
& the Califone ones (in apricot color)

Carson Ellis ornaments are going fast!!!
7 of the 15 sets are either spoken for or sold.
So far we have made them in amethyst, clear, cobalt & purple.
The plan is to make them in 4 additional colors as soon as our furnace is up and running. I will post a blog as soon as we have some more made & then they will be for sale on ebay.

Thanks,

G.C.U.

Hey lovers of fine art & Decemberists fans!
Head over to ebay & bid on a set of four ridiculously limited
glass ornaments designed by the super awesomely talented Carson Ellis!!!

Each ornament is etched with a different design from Carson's pen & ink collection and finished with a gold fill!

One more important thing, one of the hang tags is signed on the back in black ink by Carson!!!

And of course, all proceeds go to charity!

Here's the link:

Carson's ornaments

The G.C.U. will be manning Califone's merchandise table during the
Iron & Wine / Califone show 12-2-07 @ the Crystal Ballroom.

Stop by and pick up a CD & a t-shirt and of course, the limited edition Califone ornament.

We will have 5 different colors to choose from & they are just $10.

Apricot
Emerald Green
Amethyst
Clear
& Purple

The thing is, we will only have 1 purple ornament because we only made 3 during a test run for that color. Good news for those who like super limited stuff!
The first person to come up with $10 & asks for purple gets it.


See you there!!