Heart Day

Hope everyone had a happy Valentine's Day!

My husband and I delayed our trip due to questionable weather conditions. It was warmer, and possibly safer, to have waited a day, but we still ended up driving through a small, sudden snowstorm that, frankly, my nerves could have done without.

And guess what? I did not buy nary a single piece of Pyrex.

There was some, but not a lot. There were reasonably priced pieces in patterns I'm not dying to collect, and wildly, wildly, massively, heart-stoppingly overpriced pieces in patterns that I do.

How about $175 for a Horizon Blue Cinderella mixing bowl set? Or $75 for a single Friendship oval casserole? Any takers?

Here's my few glass finds: 

I had the pink Hazel Atlas Ripple saucer already, just needed the cup. Wasn't wild to pay the 5 dollar price tag, but at least I have a little set now.

The McKee Ships refrigerator dish is chippy, but it had a perfect lid. Go figure. It was cheap enough I thought it would make a nice display piece.

Had such a hard time photographing this small Fiesta heart bowl. I pick one up every time we are in the area. I'm on my 4th one now! I wanted one in the most recent color, Lapis, but they didn't have one. So I bought this Peacock one instead.

And now for my biggest finds of the day - more Kromex!

These guys were *not* the super cheap bargain price I got my pink set for. But they weren't horribly priced, either. I'd never seen yellow or turquoise in real life before, at any price, and I bought as much as I could afford.

Sadly, I had to leave behind half of canister set and a set S&P shakers. Was just too much $$$$

Kromex family portrait

And right before we left town, we stopped at a bookstore - which is usually where my husband does the money damage. This time, we both bought stuff. I did more damage buying records than I did Kromex. But they're some of my favorites, and it was our Valentine's Day, so we're both excused.

Hope you had a happy Heart Day!

Happy Thrifting!

Valentine's Day

It's a bit late to be sharing Valentine's Day goodies, but better late than never, right? :-)

Hubbie and I spent the day a couple of hours away at an antique district we've only managed to visit twice since spending our honeymoon there 7 years ago. On the way out, we stopped at a Dillard's where I bought two sets of modern Fiesta small mixing bowls - better known as "Prep bowls". Ivory, and they were on clearance for 14 dollars a set. Found that out thanks to one of the Fiesta facebook groups - love it when we get a tip-off on a good sale!

I expected that deal would be my Fiesta mixing bowls for the day. But whoo-hoo, I was happily wrong!

These 3 vintage Fiesta mixing bowls came to 38 dollars total. Sweet!

Now, the ivory bowl (a size 3) is the only one truly in good condition. The Green #2 has been completely cracked and reglued. And the small yellow #1 has a lot of chips around the very bottom.

The yellow #1 is a duplicate for me. Both are seriously damaged, but I love them still. The new one is the older style with the inside rings.

Vintage Fiesta mixing bowls. Both of these are yellow #1 bowls, but the one on the right is slightly older and has the inside rings. The backstamps on inside ring bowls are a bit plainer. Both are in poor condition, but I love them anyway.

 And now I can do this! A nest of the first 6 bowls. Just missing the very gigantically large #7 bowl. LOVELOVELOVELOVE.

I have two extra bowls that currently don't have nest mates. My ultimate dream is to have a complete set of seven, with the inside and outside bowls being turquoise (my favorite vintage color), my almost perfect red #5 in the center, and one each of the remaining colors - all in excellent condition. But if I also end up with a hundred chipped and flawed ones, as long as I haven't spent too much money - I will love them too!

And finally, I added a new Fiesta heart bowl to my tiny collection of two. The first one was Marigold, bought last year on our anniversary. This year, Flamingo on Valentine's Day. If we go back on our anniversary this year, they should have the brand new color, Lapis, available. They've also announced a larger size heart bowl just a few days ago at the Chicago Housewares convention.

If both sizes are being produced, I may keep adding to my small bowls - which are more keepsakes to me - I might buy the larger size to use. We'll see when they hit the stores some months from now :-)

Fiesta heart bowls in Marigold & Flamingo

So there's my belated Valentine's Day post. And I totally forgot to photograph or mention that I bought a partial Lilac place setting. My first Lilac! Dinner plate for 10 dollars, salad plate for 8, and a saucer for 2.50. All of them in used, but still nice condition. They are all in regular rotation, but I won't use a knife on them.

Oh, and I have to share this: My poor husband. Poor, poor man, married to crazy dish lady. I scolded him but good the other day. Why? Because he dared to warm something up in the microwave on same lilac dinner plate I had just bought the day before. Visions of lilac shards and terror danced in my brain as hubbie's hands go towards the microwave oven controls.

Have I mentioned that I've now scared him away from most every type of dish in the kitchen besides corelle/corningware? Perhaps the only thing left in my kitchen that I don't have some weird use regulation for? Just when he thought that new Fiesta was safe for every use, I go and buy some magic color that will make me screech like a banshee if he even touches it. Now, when he sees the lilac dinner plate has come up on the top of the stack, he skips it and gets the one beneath it.

Poor, poor man.

Hope you are finding fab, affordable finds and tasty treasures!