Green Green Everywhere!

Last Friday I went about my business thrifting like normal.   Must have been a day for greens.  I found many green stuff.

Square Flowers 444

Verde 402 & 403

Not Pyrex, but still green and cute

I also came across some other lovelies. You can check them out at treasuresmyhh.blogspot.com. Including some pretty vintage dresses. 

Hope your weekend is a great one and stay cool! 

~Katie

My September Finds

Here's some of the pieces I found this past month...

We usually go to the thrift and antique shops a few times a week, but life has just been super hectic lately and we're down to about once every other week! 

I feel like I'm probably missing out on a bunch of awesome pieces!!!!

You can see all my other thrifted finds on my blog...

Finally, a pink casserole!

Hi all, SusieQT here from Practice in Time!

I can't believe, after however many years of collecting Pyrex and never finding any pink, that I have found two pieces in two weeks.

You may recall my previous post here about finding a pink fridgie, and now I have a Flamingo casserole to go with it!

Last Saturday, our town had its community-wide yard sale (love those!). At the first place I stopped at, I spied this beauty in mint condition. For $1. You can bet that I carried it around with me the rest of the day!

I love these casseroles (is there a 'correct' name for them? I'm drawing a blank...) They are a perfect size for many recipes. I have a clear one that I use just about all the time (and the beauty of that one is that it can go in the dishwasher :). I've been on the lookout for another in any color or pattern, but never even let myself think I might find a pink one. I'm thrilled!

I also found this Old Town covered margarine dish the other day at a thrift store for $1. I don't collect this pattern, but my grandmother had the matching Corelle dishes, so it has some sentimental attachment. I found a use for it right away; while we don't use margarine in our house, I do use a lot of cream cheese in a brick. It's a perfect size to keep that partial brick of cream cheese once the wrapper is opened. Much classier than a zip-top bag, right?

What a Wednesday!!

I think this might be my best pyrex thrifting day to date... However I have only been collecting since June.

Anyhow...Here is what I found:

• On top is a 1957 Christmas Promotion piece, it is a space saver, but I can't find a pattern name.  Possibly "Embroidery"?  It needs a lid and the holder, but it is in pretty good shape! ($2.79)
• The bottom is my first Daisy in pink!  The lid was actually found at a different store.  (A very good reason to always be on the lookout for lids!) ($2.09)



 

• On the left, a 1959 "Golden Scroll"  #444 cindarella bowl, which I found out was part of a chip n' dip! ($4)
• A fridgie with a lid, it looks to belong to the Butterfly Gold collection, but doesn't have anu pattern. ($1.50)
• On top of the fridgie my very first teacup, looks like "Flirtation"?  But, I don't know much about teacups. ($1)
• And finally a "Spring Blossom" #442 cindarella bowl, my first of this pattern ($3)

So all for less than $15!!!!  I would say that is a pretty AWESOME thrifting day!

 

 

I usually have much better luck at our local antique stores, but this just goes to show that there are still some great finds in the thrifting world!  These were found at four different stores.  I did go to one store that seemed to think they were an antique store, there were several bowls for $6, $8, and even $15 that I passed on because they were patterns I knew I could find again, hopefully for less.

 

Happy Pyrex hunting!!

 

~Whitney

Autumn Mix-and-Match

Don't you love how Pyrex is great for mixing-and-matching? Although I'm still kind of new to collecting, I'm loving how easy it is to find new color combinations for every season! 

Speaking of such, this is why I like brown Pyrex: it's great for Autumn! Anybody else looking forward to lots of Thanksgiving goodies baked in Early American?

I have a few of my casseroles displayed on my china hutch, just waiting for the leaves to turn!

Check me out at my new site: thriftables.com (formerly known as Hourglass Vintage.) You can see all of my awesome thrifty retro finds there, including all of my Pyrex goodies!

-Susie

Frenemies

Let's begin this by saying, that being a new collector, there are still several prints I've never seen "in the wild." Sure my first love is gooseberry, but I'm dying to see balloons and the pink butterprint in person. I love the Friendship pattern too, but I have never seen it, nope, not once. Not in an antique store. Not at a garage sale or Value Village or Salvation Army. Not between Vancouver and Bellingham anyway.
I am seriously lacking in the avian goodness that is the Friendship bowl set.

So imagine my utter joy last night when I convinced my husband to take me to Value Village to celebrate the completion of my lab science credit at school, and I saw from a distance the distinctive look of a pyrex friendship bowl. My adrenaline flooded my nervous systems and my palms began to sweat like a teenage boy stealing a playboy from a corner store.

As I approached, my heart began to sink and this is why.

Too many wash and rinse cycles :(
Better luck next time! This definitely reminds me: "handwash, handwash, handwash"

Old Orchard, I love thee.

Wanna See some of my most recent  finds? lookie here:

I almost missed out on this: 

Old Orchard 501 with lid. You wanna know why you can read about it here. 

Stupid Thrift stores!  I love this set, It is one I have wanted for a long time. I found it once, didn't buy it and went back and of course it was gone. Now to find the other 3. 

I also grabbed this Anchor Hocking Measuring cup, no handle, with splash guard and beater. I have wanted a Pyrex one and didn't want to shell out the money for the one I saw at Value Village (they wanted $50!)  I came home with this lovely  for $7.

My local no name  thrift store was being a real pain this week (see above link) but I managed to get what I wanted. You wanna see my other treasures you can read about them at treasuresmyhh.blogspot.com.

 

Road Trip Thrifting

We had an unexpected opportunity to head out to SoCal last month, and when you dangle the idea of  hitting the beach and Disneyland in front of this landlocked girl, you get yourself a roadtrip.

While in Huntington Beach, I saw a rickety thrift store full of promise and stopped in. The owner was in her twenties, and I cut straight to the chase..."Do you have any pyrex?"
She looked at me funny and paused.
"I did, just a few days ago, but someone came in here and bought all of it up. I didn't know what it was and had it marked so low she bought all of it..."

I immediately thought of the three Pyrex Collectives...and wondered...WHO did?? So fess up...who was it?

But seriously, it kind of gave me hope, because that was just one thrift in SoCal, who I would have assumed had been seeing the Pyrex craze for a while, yet somebody got an amazing steal deal.

Then I went into the Huntington Beach Salvation Army and turned right around...it was gross, stinky, and zero Pyrex was to be found.

Lastly, on our way home, we stopped in a Flagstaff GW. I found my first piece of England Pyrex.

If you're curious as to which one it is...check out my full post here: Flagstaff Finds

And my question...What's the best find you've had while road tripping?