Hi! I'm Aimee Promislow and as both a lifelong craftsperson and a lifelong recycler, in 2014 I found a way to combine both passions and founded GlassSipper.

In the summer of 2016 my husband Fred stopped being a lawyer and joined GlassSipper. Together, we are committed to ridding the world of plastic straws and replacing them with our reusable, toxin-free, environmentally friendly and fun glass drinking straws.

We live in Vancouver BC, close to the ocean with our 2 teenage boys and border terrier pup. Although the boys use GlassSippers daily, they have yet to join the family business :)

I started making glass beads in 2006, but late one night, frustrated with the mess of plastic straws leaking out of my kitchen drawers, not to mention the environmental guilt I felt using all of those plastic straws, I had a 'eureka' moment. I realized that instead of making glass beads, I could be making glass drinking straws.

That night GlassSipper was born.