Thrifting in Saskatchewan

I've been doing quite a bit of thrifting in April!  I've blogged about it here and here!

Pyrex isn't super hard to find out here in Saskatchewan, there almost always is at least one piece in Value Village.  In the Mennonite Clothes Closets it's rarer, and same with the Salvation Army's.  I've seen a few abused pieces that made me very very sad.  There are usually lots of Termo-Rey and the other glass companies as well.  

Some eye candy for you!

Also does anyone know of an online English Pyrex reference site?  The one I have linked to on my blog doesn't work anymore. :(

Pyrex in the Nursery

well, motherhood has kept me extremely busy lately

and as I predicted, not much pyrex hunting has occurred recently

but no worries, I'm feeling like it will be on here soon now that my daughter 

has gotten bigger

however, I have a pyrex lovely to share

months back I pinned and then ordered this mobile 

from Mari Hiramariya's Etsy Shop

and yes, Everly is almost three months old

but the mr. and I finally got around to hanging it the other day

[she's not sleeping in her crib yet, so I didn't feel too bad]

I asked Mari to stray from the original Friendship colors

to match my daughter's nursery

and she did an excellent job with it

I love how light and whimsical it is in my Everly's room

and the fact that it is a Pyrex pattern just makes it perfect for me

and hey, when your mom has around a hundred pieces of Pyrex

you better start the appreciation young!

I've been loving all the finds everyone has been sharing lately!

if you want to see what I've been up to now that Pyrex hunting

is not my only passion - feel free to stop by here

Miss Macri @ Educated...not so Domesticated

New Holiday Display

Just thought I'd pop in really quick to show you my new "holiday display" of Pyrex! Before this, some of you may remember, I had all pinks & turquoise on my grandmother's hutch. I decided a few days ago that it would be a shame if I didn't break out the festive holiday Pyrex and display it for a while. 

My favorite, as always, is the green "Merry Christmas" bowl in the center there. I love it! 

But also featured is some Friendship, which can look very Christmasy in the right setting, and some Snowflake. I also brought out some of the Thanksgiving colors, like my Americana set and some Autumn Harvest. Finally, the Starburst at top makes for the perfect tree-topper-like crown, doesn't it? Reminds me of the star of Bethlehem. It's very cheery! I'll have a hard time taking it down come 2013...

Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! 

I can't wait to see some of your Pyrex at Thanksgiving posts :)

Cheers,

Heather @ Lark & Lola

and also at Last Day Ago

completing sets takes time

as all of you know, completing sets doesn't always happen overnight

some days I've gotten so lucky

and other times, it takes months to find that needed piece

well today, I completed two of my sets

I've needed the 402 Daisy since last black friday

when I picked up the other three bowls for only $5 at the Goodwill

and I think it has been even longer that I have needed

 the little 401 Butterfly Gold

I'm sure I have seen this bowl in my outings, 

I just think it was a piece I always forgot I needed

So today I decided that it was the day to bite the bullet

and stop searching for these guys while thrifting

and I got both pieces for under $10 at the local antique mall

all in all, I'm happy with these finds

and with the way some of my local thrift stores 

have been gouging their prices on pyrex

I'm thinking it wasn't too bad to get these sets done!

also, this week the husband and I celebrated four years of married life

the best way we know how - antiquing

and because he truly is awesome

he found me this piece, again, for super cheap

if you want to see the rest of our finds feel free to stop by here

miss macri @ Educated...not so Domesticated

It's Getting Better......

A lot of my fellow bloggers have been complaining of a Pyrex drought in their area.  There hasn't been a total drought in my neck of the woods.  You can still find a good amount of Spring Blossom, Butterfly Gold, and Town & Country.  You know, the less desirable patterns to collect.  Now, don't get me wrong. I have a few pieces of each of these patterns and I do enjoy them.  But what I have been jonesing for have been some of the more retro colors and patterns that I collect and can't ever seem to get enough of.  You can imagine how happy I was to come across these beauties this week....

I found this at an antique mall and was pretty stoked because it was just the color I needed to complete this set

On the way home, I stopped at the Goodwill that is in the town that I grew up in.  I always have pretty good luck at this particular Goodwill.  It is in a very small town about 30 minutes from the next town.  Plus, it has the absolute best prices that I have ever come across in any thrift or second hand store. 

I got the red Cinderella 444 for $2.99 and the orange 442 Cinderella for $1.99.  Both are from the Friendship set.  I picked up the bird print 443 at the Piccadilly Flea Market around Christmas.  Only one more to go to complete the set!

Have any of you found that the smaller the town the Goodwill is in, the better the prices?

Hope you all have a great weekend!

A Little Red Riding Hood Party--Featuring Friendship!

This past weekend I threw a "Little Red Riding Hood" woodland themed birthday party for my second daughter, Violet. She was turning 1!

I was excited to use some Friendship pieces for the tablescape, so I thought I'd share a link here in case any of you would like to see how I incorporated my Pyrex into the party. {I just love to break out the Pyrex for a good party, don't you?}

See the party here!

Cheers,

Heather @ Lark & Lola

{Or, you can view my family blog version, here.}

Bits & Pieces

 I just thought I'd shared some recent acquisitions, my collection continues to grow {out of control}. Above is the Friendship purchase I made off Etsy. I got both for $22, which is not a deal by my standards, but I decided I wanted them for my daughter's 1st birthday party next month so I was willing to pay a little extra...

Also, yesterday I picked up the Butterprint 442 at an antique store, now all I need is the 441. If anyone has one for trade, let me know!

 A friend recently traded me this Garden Medley casserole, I decided it'd make a great dish for my paper whites.

Yesterday, I found this Golden Scroll casserole at Goodwill for $4.99. It needs a good cleaning, but I saw this dish at an antique store recently going for $20. So I happily paid $5 for it. I adore the color!

 This is, by far, my most favorite find recently! Pink Rainbow Stripes! Found them at a community garage sale/antique show. They had the same sizes in yellow & blue, too {and if I was rich, I would have jumped on them, but sadly I had to chose}. So I had to decide which color to take home, I chose pink. I paid $25 for the two. Again, more than I'm usually willing to pay, for sure, but it's not every day you see pink Rainbow Stripe, right?

 Although this find, at the same sale, was only $5! A Fire King jadite 2qt casserole! Not Pyrex, sorry, but I sort of have a thing for jadite, too. For $5, I couldn't pass it up! Although when I got it home and researched it, I found out it is Fire-King 2000, not vintage. Still, for $5 I love it!

 Last but not least, at an indoor flea market I picked up this corner shelf for a steal. I've been looking for a corner shelf to help with my Pyrex display {we live in too small a house for this addiction} so I took it home.

Thanks for looking. Happy Pyrexing!

Cheers,
Heather @ Lark & Lola

fridays are for friendship it turns out

and when it is the first time you have ever scored a piece of friendship

and then to find four beauties in one place

and that place being a thrift store

well, I'm sure you can imagine my delight

I always love being in awe of this pattern when I find it at antique stores

but for the price, I just never can give in

and they never seem to be in the shape I want

well, I'm not going to make anyone hate me and say I found these pieces for a dollar

but, at $10 a piece, I was still over the moon

happy weekend everyone

even more pyrex eye candy over at my blog

because these pieces deserved multiple photos 

miss macri @ educated...not so domesticated

A very pyrex holiday

 It was a very pyrex holiday here at my house.
My parents bought me these two beautiful pieces back from Fort Wayne, Indiana (Hi Karin and Mark!) as Christmas presents. A lovely verde casserole with patterned lid! and my very sought after pink gooseberry fridigie! The gravy boat (sans underplate) was from my "inlaws". I was spoiled. My boyfriend even bought me the pyrex collectors book, although I'm still unsure as to whether he supports this addiction.

I replied to a message on kijiji and ended up scoring all this.
It belonged to the womans mother and the butterprint set had been a wedding present to her.
I love the history you get when you buy pyrex from people rather than from a store.

I got these three over two days from two different VVs.
A verde 043, a blue horizon and a friendship orange with daisy lid.

But, this was the best find of the holiday. Another craigslist find and I paid, get ready for it....
 FIVE DOLLARS! She's gorgeous, there's some scratches but they're all on the bottom. The woman I got it from said she got it as a wedding present in 1961. I think she's survived very well.

That's all for me for now,
Hope you all had a wonderful, pyrex filled holiday.

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!!!

My Growing Collection

I've been having dreams of Pyrex hunting lately, but very little thrifting in the last few weeks, so imagine my delight when I went to the busiest Goodwill in Denver today {at NOON, no less, I never score decent Pyrex after 10am, it seems} only to find a 3-piece set of the primary mixing bowls {only the red was missing - I paid $20} *and* a beautiful turquoise 024 with the lid {$6}!

I already owned a yellow 404{also in great condition} and I would always eye it when I passed by it in my kitchen and think about how *some*day I would add the rest of the bowls to the set. 

So now all I need is the red! And I can sell or trade the other yellow 404...?

I thought I'd share some of my more recent Pyrex acquisitions - above are my most recent turquoise finds. The 024 on the bottom right is what I scored this morning at the busy Goodwill. I was absolutely thrilled!

Here come "The Threes":

The three gravy boats I've recently acquired. 

The three butter dishes. 

And three new prints of fridgies: Butterfly Gold {2}, Pink Gooseberry {2}, and a Butterprint {1}. I need more fridgies!

I was delighted to find one of the Gooseberry fridgies with an old-style lid. 

Above are my recent Butterfly Gold finds - as you can see, there has been a flood of BG here in Denver lately!

I really like the "swag" style Butterfly Gold, as seen on the casserole on the right.

And I know this isn't BG, but it matches. My first "American" bowl.

And here's my recent "reds". I don't decorate much with red but I can't help but love it on Pyrex. The casserole is dishwasher damaged and faded, but the lid was so gorgeous I snatched it up anyway. 

Above is "Festive Harvest". I had never seen this print before finding it in a thrift store recently. I like the peach on brown.

Finally - a Gemco server set. Yes, it's not Pyrex, but you all will recognize the print. I had never seen this server set before today, picked it up for $3.

I'm usually a Pyrex Purist, I rarely buy Fire King, Glasbake, etc. But I couldn't help myself from this jadite spouted mixing bowl {$10, with a small chip} and small delphite bowl {$3}. Both are Fire King.

Here are {most of} my favorite Pyrex finds on display in  my dining room. I recently revamped my display to show off my most prized Pyrex pieces of my collection. I love showcasing them on my grandmother's Ethan Allan hutch from the 1950s, which I painted pale green a few years ago. 

Throwing them all together like this has made me realize how large my collection has become since I started collecting in May! I have some more in the kitchen, mostly Spring Blossom, Town & Country, Woodland, Autumn Harvest, and Early American. When I first started collecting I said I'd never trade - now I understand why so many of you do!

Thanks for looking at my collection :)

Heather @ Lark & Lola