A Fragile Beauty Called Glass

Because sometimes Flickr thumbnails can look as gorgeous as this.

13th February 2007 · Last updated: 7th September 2008

Related Links

• Veerle's Blog (utterly unmissable design!)
• Veerle's Flickr photos
• Anna Torfs, the post Veerle made about the glassware in the thumbnails. Contains amazingly beautiful full-sized images of the glass.

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This page was last updated on 7th September 2008.

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