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

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

The Drought is Over...I think!

I was stunned and delighted to pull this out of the new merch bin at Goodwill yesterday. Four clear fridgies! Three with lids! And in a holder I've never seen before and not even sure originally came with the Pyrex--does anyone know for sure?

I picked the entire set up for $5.99. There was now way I was leaving the 501 lids behind!

I'm sure a lot of other collectors have the same issue, I had plenty of fridgies at home with missing lids! I would have gladly bought just the lids, but the extra pieces were a bonus, for sure. 

Also found last week was this little red set! I love the size of the little red dishes, they're darling. 

Then there's THIS! Orange Butterprint!! It's a 443, and a friend picked it up for me. I nearly keeled over when she texted me asking if I wanted it. 

To which I replied, "I want!!!!"

I guess it was marked $12.99 but she got it half off. Yay!

{Thank you, Kellee!}

After a day of thrifting with my husband last weekend this was the only Pyrex I had to show for it, but it was a fun find and $3.

And a Wheat 043 gifted to me by a friend who already had two.

{More thanks, Kellee!}

A Pixie was found at an antique mall for $6.

I've never seen one in real life before, so I was smitten with it's size!

And also these two little dudes, thrifted a couple weeks back.

Now I wish I hadn't sold my other Twin dish. Oh well...

So, I guess it's safe to say that Pyrex Drought of Winter 2012 is officially over for me. Last summer was really fruitful for me, so I'm looking forward to the Pyrex to come!

Cheers,

Heather @ Lark & Lola

PS--I recently spotted a little bit o' Pyrex at a retro kitchen exhibit here in Denver, check out my blog to see what I found: http://lastdayago.blogspot.com

The drought ends with... Christmas?

I've been in the worst Pyrex drought here, lately! In fact, my husband and I thrifted 6 stores today, and I found nothing {except a few mugs, as shown below, I'll come back to those...}

Then finally, at the end of the day I was out running errands alone when I decided I had to stop at one more Goodwill today. Alas! Finally, some Pyrex success!

Yes, it's a Christmas dish {1960 Holiday casserole}, but I was still over the moon to finally find this! And I adore the Christmas Pyrex and have very much wanted more, so this was an exciting find for me. I paid $4.99, and it's in fantastic condition. It didn't have it's lid, but I found a knobbed lid a few aisles from this dish, it's marked Pyrex and it fits, only 99 cents! Works for me.

These "mugs", known as Drink-Ups if I'm correct, were the only other find of the day. I paid $1.50 for all three. I've never seen these in the wild before.

A couple weeks back I visited a new thrift store in a suburb of Denver, and waiting for me on the shelf were these two Gooseberry pink Pyrex dishes. I was thrilled, of course, as pink Gooseberry is among my very favorite patterns and I didn't yet own either of these. A 503 fridgie and a 473 casserole. $7 for both! Great condition, too.

Oh, and then there's this! Two flamingo pink 080s!

I *ADORE* this size! It's so cute. A friend recently found herself a lime 080 and when I saw it in person I knew I had to have some. 

So I cheated, I bought these on Etsy.

And I paid the most I've ever paid for Pyrex before, but what can I say? We'd just received our tax refund and I had a little $$$ to splurge with. I couldn't help but make these mine. They are absolutely mint, so there's that.

And so my pink collection has grown! Hurray!

Hopefully it keeps growing.

;-)

And hopefully, my Pyrex drought is officially over. 

Cheers,

Heather @ Lark & Lola

Fridgie Dilemma

I have a quick question that maybe you can help me solve... but first a story.
One of my first pieces was a horizon blue 501 fridgie, a few weeks later my mother found me a 502 that was blue. Then I went out to pick up a few pieces from a woman including 2 red 501s. Just last week I was at my cottage and found a yellow 503 at an antique shop for 11.00. In a few months I had collected the entire primary fridgie set, and all with lids. Now, in the last few weeks I have collected the exact same set just without the lids... or so I thought...

So, now my question to all of you is what is the difference between the horizon blue 502 fridige and the primary blue 502 fridgie? This may seem to sound like a silly question and I feel a bit a silly asking it but, I've looked all over and can't seem to spot a difference.
Can you help me?

My complete(?) primary set.



My Horizon Blue Fridiges

My lidless primary fridiges.

Now, my next question is: I bought this yesterday off a fellow collector. I knew it had utensil marks on it but I was unaware as to how bad they were. I've tried Weimans and BFK. They've worked but only marginally. what would you suggest?

Thank you!!!
Happy Hunting!

The Pyrex Gods Are Smiling...

I've had such good pyrex luck lately.
Found these beauties on my way to do a trade. I stopped in at my local VV at 2:30 in the afternoon and they were just sitting there. I couldn't believe my eyes. The 401 was 2.99 and the 403 was 4.99.

I found all of this one day... a JAJ black snowflake, an old orchard divided dish (which isn't a pattern I like, but, this specific dish is growing on me.) a clear fridgie (which I think is newer) a little blue, a red 402(both from the 1940s primary set, the red is for trade) and two pink cake pans that were ridiculously dirty with baked on gunk. I soaked and scrubbed and they look way better.

Got all this today; A woodland 441, a lime green pie plate and utility dish, a daisy divided with cradle, two red fridgies and 3 pink dinner plates!(they're in awful shape, but, I had to have them)
The Woodland has a funny story behind it. Well, It's actually kind of a sad story... It was awful, I picked it up and next to it was its mate, a 442 that had been dishwashed. Then if that wasn't enough I saw an older asian lady with a Gooseberry pink casserole dish in her cart. I went up to her and tried to explain that it couldn't go into the dishwasher, she smiled and nodded and muttered something in a very thick accent. Almost like she didn't understand me. I went off to look around the store for a bit in the hopes that she would put it back. No such luck. Oh well, Poor Gooseberry. Save the Pyrex!



If you want to see better photos or more of what I've got recently wander on over to my flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos/lulubellevintage/
I hope you've all had luck as good as mine!
Happy trails!

Recent Acquisitions

The perfect gift...of course!

This little snack server came courtesy of some late-night e-baying. It was just too cute to pass up at a fairly reasonable price.

As I was inspecting it, I noticed that the seller had left on the Goodwill price tag.

I LOVE this black and blue casserole. I had been stalking one at an antique store in Seattle, but they wanted way too much. While driving home from Thanksgiving I made a stop at the Thorpe fruit stand/antique store. It was much more reasonably priced and included the cradle. I couldn't resist!

This casserole was another result of late-night e-baying. 

I really shouldn't get on the computer after 11 pm.

It came with a little advert. So fun looking at all the pics and descriptions.

Yes please! I will take everything pictured here!!

I've had this turquoise casserole for awhile, but recently found this candle warmer cradle at a thrift store in Spokane. I don't know what it originally came with, but I was delighted that it fit the basic round casseroles.

My little sister picked up a small and medium refrigerator dish in turquoise butterprint at a thrift store in Idaho. So nice of her. I love fridgies and turquoise!!

Thrift Store vs. Antique Store

I have a thrifting win to share with you today!

This is Denver's largest antique mall. It's over 50,000 square feet and has almost 300 dealers. I can always find some good Pyrex here, but the prices aren't cheap!

I stopped there today to hunt for Christmas gifts for my antique-loving friends, and while I was there I saw this {I always see a few sets of these when I'm there}:

A complete primary fridgie set for $75.00. 

This is a very typical price for antique stores, I've found.

But today was a WIN for me, because before I stopped in the antique mall, I ran down the street to Savers. I have a problem with passing a thrift store, I HAVE to stop in to see what I might find.

I'm sure some of you can relate...

Anyway, I immediately checked the "Pyrex shelf" as I always do first thing when I enter a thrift store. Sadly, there was no Pyrex in kitchen ware today. 

BUT, when I turned the corner and went down the knick-knacks aisle,

I FOUND THIS!

Sure, it was one red 501 short of a full set, but I didn't care! I snatched them up and  ran for the registers to make them officially mine. 

They even have the old style lids:

So this is an old set--which made it even more exciting when I got them home, washed them, and inspected them to find...

 They are mint! Not a untensil scratch, not a chip to be found. Even the corners show no wear whatsoever:

And now, at the risk of making you all completely green with envy, 

check out these prices!!!

That's right. 

$0.99 for the 501. 

$1.99 for the 502

$2.99 for the 503. 

GET OUT!

I could kiss the person who priced these. 

So that's my major win. 

The antique mall down the street wanted $75.00 {including the 2nd red 501} but I paid a whopping $6 for my happy little set. 

And we all lived happily ever after...

The End.

Cheers, Heather @ Lark & Lola