Oh No You Didn't!

Oh yes I did!

Scored the 'EYES' chip and dip this weekend at a yard sale!!

(or, as I learned on pyrexlove...its official name is the Hot n' Cold Chip and Dip Set)

Same sale had this one too:
Tulip promotional. New one for me.

Fun fun!

Turquoise Surprise!

Today my little family headed out to Walmart to return something, and what was supposed to be a dull, short errand turned into one of my favorite Pyrex scores yet!

My husband was driving, and there are two Walmarts about equal distance from our house.

He also knows there is a Goodwill on the way to each of them. 

He also knows I will beg him to stop whenever we pass one.

So, he headed toward the Walmart with the Goodwill that is my least favorite Goodwill in Denver, probably hoping I wouldn't ask him to stop since I have never found good Pyrex there since it's grand opening a year ago. That is...

Until today...oh yes, I still made him stop. 

{He insisted on stopping after Walmart, however, but that probably worked in my favor as you'll find out.}

 

Still in the bins, fresh out from the back, waiting to be shelved {I always check the bins first, and I've scored some fantastic pieces there} were these three turquoise mixing bowls! 

Sure, the 403 is missing, I'll have to hunt that guy down to complete this set.

So guess what they had this set of three priced at?

 

$6.99!

For all three. 

Gougewill Goodwill pricing Pyrex at less than an arm and a leg?

Wow.

I couldn't believe it, and I couldn't throw gently set them in my cart and run to the registers fast enough. {Okay, well maybe I checked the shelves first, then ran.}

They needed a little clean up, but they're nice and shiny. 

Great find today, I think!

Cheers & Happy Hunting,

Heather @ Lark & Lola

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!

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!

Winter Blues

This is what my Pyrex cabinet has looked like for winter.  I love seeing all the blue and turquoise I have all together!  Since I took this picture, I've even acquired a couple other pieces.  I may have done some late night e-baying and this showed up in the mail today--in one piece, complete with lid and candle warmer!

My newest discovery is that I can find some of the candle warmers and holder things at the thrift stores separate from the casseroles.  The top center oval casserole is in a candle warmer that I found all on it's own.  I recently found a holder for the round casserole in the middle on the right.  I'm sad that they got separated from their original mates, but glad to add them to my collection.

I love these abstract-ish snowflakes!

Who can resist turquoise and snowflakes?!

--Wendy

Up Up and Away...My Beautiful...Pyrex!

I have a booth at an antique mall, or more like vintage/upscale thrift mall type of place. The other day I noticed the owner had put this into her booth! Whoo hoo!
It's a Balloons Promotional Cinderella bowl. It was part of a chip and dip set and came out in Spring of 1958.
She did have the dip bowl as well, but unfortunately it was dishwasher damaged beyond repair.
That's okay. I'd still have to find the bracket. For now, this is pretty cool for my turquoise Pyrex collection!

Butterprint Cinderella Bowls

On the 9th, I finally went to the Pasadena Rose Bowl Flea Market. It was AMAZING and packed full of vintage goodies. (My only complaint is that the prices were much higher than what I've been used to paying at the San Diego swap meet I go to.) While I was there, I picked up my first set of cinderella bowls - in my favorite pattern! They are in beautiful condition. I haggled these bowls down to $25, which I thought was expensive. After seeing sets selling for $100+ at that flea market, though, I realized I bought the cheapest set in the whole place!

- Cara-Mia

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

Latest Finds!

Hi there, My name's Dara and I am a pyrex newbie. I have been lusting after pieces in stores for years, but only seriously been collecting this past year. I am learning as I go (and as I pass things up!) I have only 7 pieces so far, and I am VERY eager to get out there and get some more! I'd see bowl sets and pieces and swoon over them, but convince myself  "You'll never use all these, you don't need this many bowls and casserole dishes!" .. I still have that mindset sometimes, but I am slowly getting over it as I begin to complete collections and fall in love with specific patterns.  :)

Anywhoo, enough with the chatter! On to the Photos.

My Collection so far:



I've posted these over at my own blog as well. A Very Good Coat Rack.
I enjoy drawing my pyrex too! A Tweed Fox
Thank you all for listening & reading, I LOVE looking at your collections. :) Take care and happy hunting!

Labor Day Finds!

Happy Labor Day Everyone!

Hope you all enjoyed a relaxing weekend. We were so happy here in Houston after almost a month of triple digit weather. Tropical Storm Lee brought us some relief in temperature.

My family spent the weekend hunting for Pyrex. I had a ton of luck! Between garage sales, Craigslist, Antique Malls and thrift stores, I found plenty to be excited about!

I went to lady's house who was selling the Autumn Harvest bowl set (in the second picture) and asked her if she was selling anymore Pyrex. She mentioned some kind of Federal glassware. Imagine my surprise when she took me into the kitchen and showed me all of the Butterprint pieces. She hadn't decided on keeping them or not, but eventually quoted a price. Most are duplicates so I will be adding them to my trade set soon. The solid turquoise pieces came from an Antique stores. The snowflake came from two different thrift stores.

LOVE Turquoise!

Some from the lady on Craigslist, some from Antique stores and some from thrift stores. The Friendship piece still had the Goodwill price on it for 3.93 but the Antique dealer wasn't too thrilled about going down on the price. I ended up paying $6 which was still fair to me because I only have one piece of Friendship and never seem to find it. It was covered in black goop. I wish I had taken a before picture. It looks brand new now! Some duplicates will be posted in trades.

Second Friendship Piece!

Some pieces from an Antique mall including my FIRST Delphite bowl. I was so excited and to be honest, I might have missed it. My 9 year old son spotted it. Going Pyrex hunting with my family helps me spot things I might miss on my own. I found the unmarked opal bowls which I love. My MIL gave me the yellow fridgie that is such a a brilliant yellow. This was sold by a dealer in her store.

The Butterprint bowls were found in a thrift store by my hubby. He saw the print from across the store. I couldn't figure out what he was walking so fast toward. He almost bumped a woman out of the way to reach them. I laughed as soon as I saw what was in his hand. I have been looking for the 404 bowl for so long! I didn't even know they made Embroidery in yellow!

404 Butterprint!

Hope you all had some great finds this weekend. I am always happy to scrub and clean new (to-me) Pyrex. Looking forward to your posts!

--Lisa

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Oh Turquoise! How I love you!!

I had a very good (or if you ask my bank account, bad) day yesterday. A couple estate sales, a few thrift stores, and the local antique mall. I decided to hit the antique mall on a whim after I drove by and saw they were having a sidewalk sale. I got there late in the afternoon and most vendors were packing up. But I went inside. And I'm glad I did. I normally avoid the antique places, because, as you well know, the pricing will kill you. Or at least put you into shock. But it was worth it when I got to bring these two beauties home.

Plus, as I was getting ready to leave, I stopped at one last booth. I was looking at some other things in a really jumbled area. I bent down to check something out and turned around just in time to spot this hiding on the bottom shelf behind some furniture:

My first Pyrex with the original box. And I can tell you that they cost a bit more than the left- over yard sale sticker price of $3.00. But they were on sale for 25% off, so that makes it all okay, doesn't it?

Here's the rest of my haul from Saturday. Oh, except the green and yellow Cinderella bowls. I picked those up a few weekends ago at a fruit stand/antique store. It was being sold as a chip and dip set with the bracket. My question is: were those actually sold as a chip and dip set?

Hope your weekend was as "productive" as mine. Now I gotta go get some housework done around here.

--Wendy

The Crown of My Collection

I know I'm not the first and only one to post about the Bluebird casserole, but I just couldn't resist showing off what I consider to be the crown of my entire collection. {Which by the way, since starting to collect in May I have over 100 pieces! Uh-oh... time to start trading & re-selling...}

So here she is! My "baby". I found this on Etsy last month, actually, and paid more than I've ever paid for a piece of Pyrex before. But, I ADORE this pattern, have never seen a Bluebird in the wild, and it came with it's original cradle, lid, and box! The cradle looks tarnished some, but the dish itself is pretty much mint, I cannot find a single utensil mark on it. Even the box is in superb condition. And at 50 years old!

So I bought it for $18. More than I've ever spent before, but I had some spending money and decided to treat myself to a Pyrex dish that I truly desired. I love it!

Cheers!

Heather @ Lark & Lola