Rarities

I have been so fortunate lately to come into some very nice, hard-to-find pieces! Thanks to a couple friends and some lucky finds--my collection is growing more unique all the time. 

I picked up the Balloons 444 today off of Craigslist. I paid $20, which is usually very high price for me to pay for Pyrex. But this one was on my must-finds list, so I was willing to pay a little more than usual. It has a few scratches, but is in generally lovely condition. 

My orange Butterprint collection grows! I only need two more bowls. I had the 443 thanks to one friend, and another friend gave me the 444. So sweet!

My Gooseberry pink sets are now complete, too. I was delighted to find the 443 & 444 sitting on a shelf at Goodwill {or Gougewill, as I like to call it...} and they were the exact pieces I need for this set:

Meanwhile, my friend also found the 502 fridgie for me, which complete my fridgie set. Joy!

I have the best friends in the world. 

Because one also gave me this:

I have lusted after the Starburst space saver for FOR.EV.ER!

It's minty, too:

I have to say, I honestly feel sort of spoiled right now. Almost like I've been naughty, getting so many awesome pieces lately. I have Pyrex guilt!

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Those of you who enjoy all sorts of thrifty finds {including jadite, Cathrineholm, Westmoreland, etc} might enjoy my complete post of thrifty finds here: a brand new post on my recent thrifted finds at Lark & Lola. 

Cheers & have a great week!

Heather @ Lark & Lola

Is There Anything Pyrex CAN'T Be?!

The Most amazing thing has happened!

If you will remember I scored  the neat little metal sleigh on my Thrifting Extravaganza  and yes what you see in said sleigh is a Pyrex Fridgie #502. Now, this happened totally by accident, I was packing things up to go to the Casablanca and I thought "I'll send the sleight out there to pack away with all the other vintage decorations" (Which by the way, never seem as festive coming down as they do going up) so I sat it on the pile wrapped in its plastic bag.

 Well next I pulled another 502 fridgie out (as a gift for a friend) and without even thinking sat in top of the sleigh.

 The I must have felt what the guy who said "Hey, lets put peanut butter and Chocolate together and see what happens..."  MUCH to my surprise they fit almost perfectly together!

(OH. MY. GOD!)

After the 45 second mind-gazam had passed, I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do! I ran over to my storage unit, and grabbed a blue 502 that had been dishwasher abused, and had lots its color and shine.

(I'm provably going to some form of Pyrex Hell for this...)

Three coats of paint, and an overnight dry later, I had a perfect looking fire engine red 502!

Then when I went to the Lake with friend Bryson on Friday, I gave the sleigh three coats of gold spray paint and let dry. I grabbed the lid from my good 502 in the kitchen. 

(Ta-Da!)

I LOVE this one of a kind coffee table creation, that I'm calling "Santa's Pyrex Sleigh" !

(I have waaaay to much time on my hands...)

-Mick-