What Is It About Pyrex?

Hi There!  I'm Stacey Johnson, and I'm new to the Pyrex Collective III.  I've been head over heals with vintage Pyrex for about a year.  It all started with a Pyrex Spring Blossom bowl I spotted at Goodwill for what???...$2!  It brought back memories of my childhood in the 70's and it was just so cheerful!  I was hooked.  Now I search thrift stores looking for hidden treasure.  I started out limiting myself to mixing bowls but that went out the window when I found a mint condition Snowflake Blue casserole with the lid for $4 hidden in a pile of pans at a St. Vincent De Paul.

This is on my coffee table.

My family thought I was crazy at first, but now my husband is one of the best Pyrex hunters I know.  We often go thrifting on his day off, and he's found at least half of my goods.  My kids and I were watching an episode of the 70's show "Sigmund and the Sea Monster" on Netflix and what did we notice?  The mom in the kitchen mixing up something in a Pyrex cinderella bowl of course! 

The $4 find that pushed me to branch out beyond bowls along with a vintage patterned towel made by my 92 year old Grandmother.

The mix and match of cinderella bowls I mix up my gluten free goodies in.

I love Pyrex because it's a piece of the past.  It captures a simpler time when food was mostly homemade and served with love.  It reminds me of home and family, and taking time to just be together.  That's a priority in my own life today.  My blog "GF Pastor's Wife, Living the Simple Life", is all about vintage, the simple life...and gluten free.  (My daughter and I are both Celiac so I whip up homemade GF food from my cookbook, "It's All Good Without Gluten!" in Pyrex bowls.) 

A plant stand I picked up at a yard sale become a display for my finds.

The bowl that started it all.