Laika the Astronaut Ceramic Vase PinkLily Being an mdf base tube

Being an mdf base tube vase means the tubes lift out

Working at a shade over two inches means the spacing has nowhere to hide

and the label across the front is hand-lettered at a scale that requires reading glasses and steady nerves in roughly equal measure

a piece of ambition that never once made the history books and probably should have

Laika the Astronaut Ceramic Vase PinkLily Being an mdf base tubeThe Laika vase is an astronaut dog vase, made because once you have honored the cat who reached orbit first, you cannot in good conscience skip the first dog. The alternative was a slow ceramic feud between cat people and dog people, and nobody here had the stamina for it. So the Laika vase exists: glazed ceramic in two sizes, the large eight inches tall and the medium six, with a mouth that takes a proper handful of stems rather than a lonely one.