Laika the Astronaut Ceramic Vase PinkLily The name borrows from the

The name borrows from the Japanese script used for foreign words

would treasure a green thing she could not possibly kill

94 inches tall

Being an mdf base tube vase means the tubes lift out

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

Laika the Astronaut Ceramic Vase PinkLily The name borrows from theThe 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.