Everything tastes better in vintage Pyrex!

Hi folks! This is my first post on the Pyrex Collective II. I'm very excited with every new post that appears, and have been waiting until I had pics of my smallish collection before posting. I just LOVE the bright colors and patterns. Every time I use a piece of my collection, it just makes me happy. :)

As for the title of my post, here is part of what we are having for dinner tonight:

Cheesy potatoes in my newest acquisition - my Friendship fridgie! This was an antique mall purchase, but it was pretty reasonably priced, and in near perfect condition. I was super excited to see it, because Friendship is one of my favorites. I found a yellow daisy 2.5 qt. casserole with lid for $10 in the same booth. The fridgie was $15 (yikes).

Chicken in my snowflake garland lasagna pan. I hesitated about buying this one in a vintage store in my hometown, but it was PERFECT, and I know I'd have had a hard time finding this size while thrifting.

As for the rest of the collection, it's a little piecemeal so far, but here are a few more pics (I've since added a few more pieces). All of this came from garage sales, rummage sales, Goodwill, or Salvation Army.

Happy Pyrex Hunting!!!

Happy Monday

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

There was tons of stuff going on this weekend. First Jen and I went to the Asparagus festival in Stockton, CA on Saturday. That was tons of fun, good food and great weather.

While there and driving back we stopped at quite a few thrift stores. Let me just say people down there take thrifting very seriously!! We were at a thrift store 20 minutes before it opened and the parking lot was already full of people waiting to get in!

We still found some great stuff. We went to about 7-8 thrift stores on the way back home and actually found quite a few items. Including an awesome typewriter desk and the cart these pictures were taken on.

Sunday brought us to Folsom, CA for the Folsom Peddlers Fair. For those who haven't been there are tons of booths with people selling a whole bunch of different items. From 50 cent antique bottles to $400 Dolls. That netted us some great deals as well including an entire set of Daisy Cinderella bowls.

We also got two pink bowls and a Golden Leaf Promotional in the same weekend. Talk about luck! We now have lots of color in our collection and we couldn't be happier.

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend as much as we did.

What $35 of pyrex looks like...

I was away from home the end of last week for other reasons than thrifting, but managed to fit a bit of it in :)  This is what $35 of pyrex looks like!  I cannot believe everything I found.  Most of it came from a St. Vincent De Paul store just north of Seattle.  All but the flameware and divided dishes came from there and cost only $20!  I lucked out to visit during their "Everything Used 50% Off Sale."  Dishes average $7-10 each whenever I find them, so I NEEDED thought I'd give them a new home and scooped all the pyrex they had up.  I am so excited about my loot that I have just a couple pics from when I had them drying today.  I will come back and show you the dishes in better detail in a couple of days.  (clicking the picture will link you to my pyrex set on flickr)

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