Wondervase.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Colorado Cool Stuff - Tartan Products Co - Brief Article

Polly Shaffer founded Tartan Products Co. in 1987 as a gift-wrap supplier, and invented the BasketBag--which wraps the gift basket--in the early 1990s. Orders exploded as the gift-basket industry took off, and Polly recruited her husband Curt to guide the business as president. (Today their kids, Cindy and Patrick, also work for the company.) Polly's latest brainstorm is the WonderVase. "It's a thermal plastic that becomes flexible with warm water and hardens with cold water," said Curt--so you can...