American-made adult glass pleasure products are making a name for a company with a production facility and retail outlet near Port Townsend.

Grand opening of the retail store is Saturday, Jan. 23.

Over the past five years, Crystal Delights (aka VirtuallyAbout LLC) has established and built a strong U.S. and international brand name by providing high-quality alternatives to the cheap, and not always properly made, Asian-produced glass sexual aids, according to Shellie Yarnell, cofounder and creative director of Crystal Delights.

After achieving multiple industry nominations and awards, the company outgrew its small glass shop in New Hampshire, and a little more than a year ago, Crystal Delights moved its lampwork glass shop and manufacturing business to Port Townsend.

“It was an easy decision to move back to Port Townsend. I could be back near my children and grandchildren, and have access to some of the best glass artisans in the country,” Yarnell said in a press release. Yarnell has been visiting family in Port Townsend since the 1960s and was a resident of Port Townsend in 1985.

After initially planning to move into the Old Blacksmith Shop in downtown Port Townsend, near the intersection of Monroe and Water streets, the owners discovered the many demands of trying to locate a new business in a historic building.

A new business plan led them outside the city limits and into the Glen Cove industrial area, where they have rented space that previously had housed the East Jefferson Fire Rescue administrative offices. (EJFR moved across the driveway to a stand-alone building.) This space provides not only new and larger manufacturing space, it also is large enough for retail space.

Almost a year later, the grand opening of the retail store is planned for 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 23 at 40A Seton Road, just off State Route 20.

The store’s main room features an array of antique, unique and unusual glass objects, and features a huge display of Vaseline glass glowing under black lights. There is also a presentation of marbles handcrafted by the Crystal Delights artisan lampworkers.

“With the opening of our retail space, we plan to expand our product lines, both pleasure products as well as adding a host of household, artistic and functional glass products, too,” added Andrew Schwartz, cofounder and director of sales and marketing.

The business’s “over 18” boutique showroom features Crystal Delights, displaying its award-winning products, and offers a growing selection of pleasure and sexual well-being products. The business also invites all the Seahawks fans to stop by and see its special team tribute.

VirtuallyAbout LLC dba Crystal Delights began in 2008 as a line of digital toys in the virtual world of Second Life. Along with the "Crystal Delights" virtual adult toy product line, the company installed virtual sales kiosks that gave Second Life avatars the ability to purchase real-world pleasure products using “Lindens,” Second Life's currency, according to a press release. When Second Life began to pursue different ventures and restrict e-commerce, the idea developed to create a real-life "Crystal Delights" pleasure product, the press release said.

In 2010, the first real-life adult glass pleasure product, the Crystal Delights plug, was created. The company's offerings include Colors Against Cancer and tail products, from which a percentage of profits are donated annually to support, LGBT, cancer and animal-rescue causes, Schwartz noted.

The company’s mission is to support the communities that support it and to try to be a socially and environmentally conscious company, according to Yarnell and Schwartz.

Learn more at

crystaldelights.com.