Now that fall is here and winter will be around the corner, I love baking with my Snowflake pieces. This was the piece that started it all for me! My mom gave this to me as a Christmas present one year, when I first started college because I "loved snowflakes". Little did she know, I would start a collecting passion. I would scour our local Goodwill and Saint Vinnie's store, in search of more Snowflake pieces. I was pretty good for about 10 years, only sticking to Snowflake pieces, but that has changed in the last few years--picking up other patterned pieces here and there.
Just made pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting the other night and the hubby loves them! I love how Pyrex is so fun to display but also entirely useful!
It would be fun to know how or why the rest of you started collecting Pyrex too:)
My first piece came with my hubby when we got married. We have had the large primary yellow mixing bowl for over 31 years. Then last year I decided I wanted to do a country kitchen and start collecting. My first items once I started collecting was a set of spring blossom mixing bowls. My sister got them for me last November and I've been addicted ever since.
ReplyDeleteGreat story...you are a true Pyrex lover through the decades!
DeleteI started slowly, when my husband's grandmother gave me her 2 pyrex mixing bowls. One is Homestead pattern and one is the solid green one which I think is from the late 40's. And then my friend was collecting the Butterprint pattern and I got hooked on that one and starting collecting it also, (I still have the casserole dishes to get) and then I just looked on everyone's blogs on blogger and got hooked on collecting every Pyrex I can find!! I love it and I am really hooked!
ReplyDeleteIt is fun, isn't it? It can be a fairly inexpensive hobby too if you have the willpower to only purchase at garage sales and thrift stores!
DeleteYes, I am addicted! I haven't had the time this summer to go to garage sales, I did however go to flea markets. More for vintage jewelry though.
DeleteI have been going to thrift shops for the past 3 weeks now and I love it, you find awesome prices and get such a variety for Pyrex. I am actually going shopping today for Pyrex!
Mine started so innocently. I saw a blue primary mixing bowl hanging out at my favorite thrift store for only $.99. Little did I know that that cheap little bowl would lead me into an obsession :-)
ReplyDeleteSusie
Thriftables.com
Ahhh yes, it is fun to remember the first time Pyrex caught your attention. Thanks for sharing!
DeleteI love pumpkin bars! I just made some the other day and they are gone already- never tried it in Pyrex, though! I got started in Pyrex collecting by buying a set of Primary Mixing bowls at a yard sale and now I'm trying to complete the refrigerator set. I also collect Butterprint, pink, and promotionals now... :)
ReplyDeleteI love making bars and baked goods in my Pyrex pans--they always seem to come out baked perfectly:) I probably use for baking more than cooking (casseroles and such). I to love Promotionals!
DeleteMy mom gave me her Town and Country mixing bowl when I moved into my first apartment over a decade ago. I love that bowl...its so useful and durable. It's been microwaved, put in the oven, dropped, it was even once used as a projectile at my ex husband...and it still looks brand new. A year ago, on a whim I looked up the bowl to see about getting some more (I've always been a Pyrex fan) and discovered the world of vintage Pyrex. It's bordered on obsession ever sense.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your funny story! I laughed out loud when I read it as we can all relate to what you wrote:)
DeleteLet's see-over the past 10 years I have picked up pyrex at garage sales, but it hasn't been till this year that I have developed the obsession. My husband was laughing at me the other day, I was watching the old TV series Hazel-and had the video paused while I referenced my Pyrex guide book to make sure I was identifying the pattern on the screen correctly. He said "you have lost your mind over this stuff." It really does draw you in, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the baking and the pyrex, my brownies come out incredible using my flamingo pink baking dish!