Hunting for Pyrex

So we went to a wedding for a friend of mine in Lake Charles and tried to Pyrex shop along the way. Lake Charles in general was a giant dud. I found mostly corelle pieces and maybe 2-3 overpriced pieces.

I had lost all hope of finding anything until my hubby spotted a random flea market on the side of the road. It was raining, 9 am on a Sunday morning, and looked at little shady. So why not? LOL

Found some AWESOME pieces.

The Pueblo is finally mine! I really wanted this in time for Halloween but I will take it!

$8 bucks!!!! 

I also restocked my pieces for trade. 

Let me know if you want to trade. See my trade album.

--Lisa

Vintage Vault

Weekend Haul

After going to a monthly flea market that was a major bust, I was bummed out. Luckily, Jim encouraged me to look for more shops along the hour drive home. He was right.

This was the weekend haul:



Two of our major scores:
36 pieces for $30!


Full set for $25. Amazing! I was thinking of paying $85 for a less quality set, a few days ago.



With our thrifting plus my trades, I had a huge addition to my collection. And several pieces to trade.

What did you find this weekend?

--Lisa
Vintage Vault

Maxwell Street Days in Cedarburg, WI

Went to Maxwell Street Days down in Cedarburg yesterday with my Wife, my Mother, and Grandmother. We all had a good time searching for trinkets and other cool stuff. My Wife and I found a good selection of Pyrex.

The first Pyrex we found was when I saw my Wife literally jump and run to grab something, I couldn't see what at first. When I got over to her she was holding a NIB(Sorta, I'll explain in a sec) set of Spring Blossom Green Cinderella Bowls. After paying for it, I took it and some other stuff to the car and noticed the box didn't say "Spring Blossom", it instead said "Turquoise". So we'll either keep the box and find a set of the Turquoise Butterprint to fill it for our collection or give it to a friend who already has a full set (If she wants it that is).

The next was a 1 1/2 quart Horizon Blue Casserole for my MIL, she had recently broken the bottom of the one she's had for years. We'll send it to her along with some other cool Singer stuff we also found for her.

Next up was a cool a Golden Casserole(Promo 1959) in the warming stand. The dealer had it priced at 30$, I offered her 15$...She said "Are you kidding me?". I said "I gotta start somewhere!". She apparently didn't understand the theory of dickering very well... ;)
I ended up getting it for 20$.

We then found a couple Butterfly Gold pieces, one round mixing bowl to complete a three piece set (300-4)....That is until we find the 4 quart bowl, which will make it a four piece set (400-4). That kind of thinking is "Pyrexia" at it's finest! And a 1 1/2 pint Cinderella bowl in the other color scheme from the full set we already have.

And a small Spring Blossom Green Fridgie to match the new Cinderella bowls above.

Last was a 4 Quart Butterprint Cinderella Bowl in really rough shape.

I was looking for this size bowl to use in test fitting the C&D brackets I make. Just need to find a 1 1/2 pint bowl now.

In other news, I'm trying to find a nice Hostess set so I can attempt to recreate the Hostess Chip and Dip brackets as well as the other style (Multi-piece with the hook over the top) Cinderella C&D bracket. Both styles require brazing the brass wire together so I've been practicing.

There's also a wooden style I might be able to make easily enough. So at some point there may be a full selection of C&D brackets available on my Etsy store.

You can view other photos of our collection over on Flickr, and/or find me on Facebook in the Vintage Pyrex Love group

That's all for today's post. Thanks for reading and I wish you all happy Pyrex hunting.

For the love of Pyrex

Hi, I'm new at this so bare with me a bit...

My wife and I have been following both Pyrex Collective blogs for some time now and have wanted to post some of our finds. Which can be found here--> My Vintage Pyrex on Flickr

I'll try to not ramble on too much in this or future postings, so in that spirit I only have a couple things to say today.

If you're in or near to southeastern Wisconsin next weekend there is a fairly large fleamarket/fund raiser for the fire department in Cedarburg, WI that happens several times a year called Maxwell Street Days. I haven't been there in a few years so my wife and I are going to go see what sort of fun Pyrex patterns we spot! I'll post photos of what we get.

I also wanted to post about something of interest to anyone with a Chip and Dip set who does not have the Bracket, or to anyone who has passed up buying sets because they were missing the brackets. I've search high and low for them and have never found one, though I've seen a lot of C&D sets both with and without. A couple months back I found a set of the Delphite Blue Golden Grapes Bowls in beautiful condition.



The only problem was, as many of you have probably found, no bracket. I asked around in the various Pyrex groups(Pyrex Love on Flickr, Vintage Pyrex Love on Facebook, etc) asking if anyone knew where to find originals or reproductions so I would be able to use my set. No one could help me so I decided to attempt to recreate one myself. After I posted about attempting to recreate a bracket I got a lot of comments and messages asking if I was going to make them available if I was successful. So once I had a few prototypes made to my satisfaction I made a storefront on Etsy. Now you can use those bowls the way they are meant to be used.



Thanks for reading, I hope I didn't ramble to much. ;)