1/28/13

Pyrex Heaven


We have an antique store in our town that has a ton of booths in it. I have never found anything there, but somebody told me they had rearranged and had a lot of new vendors. I thought maybe there might be some Pyrex there. Last time I was there, they only had one or two pieces. Wow, new vendors really changed that. The first booth I walked in had this set. 


I am not even going to try to name all the various patterns I saw. I just know I saw some patterns I have never seen in person before. I fell in love with this one. 


The next booth had a variety of patterns. 


I had never seen the brown bowl in person, but it is one I really liked. If you look closely, you will see a set of the primary bowls to the right and the yellow primary on the top. 


That same booth had tons of assort patterns. 


This was another one I had never seen in person. It is really pretty. 


Walked around the corner to the next booth ad saw this. Some prices in the booths were outrageous. For example , Cinderella bowls in this booth were $49.00....for one bowl!


But another booth had more reasonable prices such as this Cinderella for $12.99


This was another pattern I have never seen. I am going to spend some time on Pyrex Love to see what all these patterns are sometime today. 


This wasn't a bad price but it wasn't particularly a style I'm looking for. 


By the time I spotted this, I was so overwhelmed that I just couldn't decide what to get. I love this and it is very rare to find an entire set with all the pieces....especially for $14.99. I had every intention of getting it, but it was up high and I was waiting on the sales clerk to get free to help me get it. So I kept looking around and forgot to go back. I was sick when I saw it on my camera this morning. I may try to run over there later today. I just need to check and make sure that is a good deal. Anybody?


The next booth was a continuation of more Pyrex. 


And I love the little snowflake cups. 


I have never seem this pattern either and there was no price, but it was pretty. 


Finally saw some fridgies in one booth. But it had a lot of damage and no lid. 


This one was cute, but not one of my favorite patterns. Plus this booth was kind of high. 


Then I looked up on the next shelf and she had a set of 12 fridgies. But she also had a price of $69.00 and a big note that she would not break the set up. Which was a shame because at $5.75 each, I would have snatched up a couple. 



I have this pink casserole but I don't have a lid. I need to find one. This was so pretty set on the blue snowflake one. They were under $15 each which wasn't bad. 


Not sure if this was Pyrex or Corelle. But the baking dish in the middle was definitely Pyrex. 


Look at this lovely set. I wanted to snatch these up in a heartbeat but at over $100 total I had to walk away. 


That same booth had a cream and sugar for $21.95. 


A beautiful set of butterfly gold Cinderella bowls. 


They had some other items that caught my eye other than Pyrex. Like this green set of dessert cups and saucers. 


I got a little excited when I saw the set of tulip bowls for $40.00...until I realized that $40 was for the small bowl only and the prices went up from there. 


I love this old canister set.  


And this cake set. Mom had one of these and I could just imagine this one holding a two layer home made chocolate cake with chocolate icing. Yummy!


I am taking hubby back over there because they had some wonderful milk bottles at reasonable prices. 


I figure that would be a good place to go for him to start his collection.  


So, are you wondering if I actually bought anything? Yes, I did. I was thrilled when I found this little Pyrex 700 Turquoise mini casserole dish for just $4.95. I fell in love. My first piece of turquoise with no pattern. It will be gorgeous with my pink flamingo dishes. I am really loving the mini pieces they made. 


But one of my favorite finds of the day was the Hazel Atlas Red Rooster mug. I have see these on Etsy for anywhere from $14.99 - $24.99. What was my cost? $3.49. What a great find. 


I am sure I will be going back later this week with hubby. 

1/27/13

Sunday's Songs and Signs


Our Pre-K Sunday School class was playing with their blocks and they were all trying to make "buildings" out of them so I was trying to teach them the song Working on a Building. But I couldn't remember the words. I found this on You Tube. I'm going to have to learn it for the next time we "work on a building" with our blocks.



However, they did sing My God is So Big last Sunday, so we got a little music in. And yes, my two granddaughters are in the video. Alexis is on the step with black top over white shirt and Shelby is on the stage part in the pink dress.


Saw some signs on Facebook and Pinterest this week that I really liked.



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1/26/13

Just some random thoughts....


Yesterday was filled with ice and rain. A salt truck slid off the road but no one was injured.

Photo: The salt truck Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett was riding in this morning just overturned in South Knoxville. We have him on the phone now on 6 News. He's okay, but says "there is no reason you should be out on the roads."

Trees were laden down with ice and in one area, close to 4000 people lost power. It got down in the 20's last night and roads were expected to freeze again so I guess I won't be trekking over to Oak Ridge for the Estate Sale.



Hubby was off so neither of us had to leave the house yesterday. We stayed in where it was nice and warm....and DRY! We had picked up some cinnamon rolls at Food City for our breakfast and they were delicious.


Thursday we had lunch at Steak and Shake to enjoy some date time since we knew our normal day of running errands on Friday wouldn't happen. Lunch was delicious. 


And we splurged for the Oreo ice cream sandwich for dessert. But I guess at .99 cents it wasn't that big of a splurge. He didn't even ask for two spoons so I ate it all...every bite...by myself! Yum! Heaven.


We went to Hobby Lobby and I picked up some foam hearts for Pre-K Sunday School to decorate some Valentine 'mailboxes' they are going to make Sunday. 


Speaking of hearts...do you ever buy any of the Conversation Hearts that are a symbol of Valentine's Day. 


I know it is the season of Love when I see those true love and cutie pie hearts I've been munching on since I was a young girl. 


I still have a habit of reading one before I eat it (by the way, I eat ALL the orange ones before starting on the other colors.) As I was reading them yesterday, I had to chuckle that even Conversation Hearts have moved into the world of technology. I may be getting old and losing my memory, but I would swear we never had "Friend Me" or "Text Me" on any of our hearts growing up. 


My favorite one was the DREAM BIG that I saw in my little box yesterday. My words for this year are BELIEVE and DREAM. Instead of setting resolutions or goals, I have actually set my dreams for what I want to achieve this year. You have to have a dream or a vision and then believe in yourself before you can achieve it. So I really liked this heart. 


On another note, one of my big things I am believing in this year is that I can make my Thirty-One business a success. So I took this little bulletin board and created my Believe Board. It is working out better than anything I have ever tried. It has little photos and posters of incentives I have won from Thirty-One and incentives I am working toward. It has pictures of things I would like to do with my success from Thirty-One and things on my wish list I would like to have. 


I just finished book six in the Fool's Gold series by Susan Mallery. I have just recently started reading her books and I am loving her writing talent. I started book 7 last night and can already tell it will be a good as the next one. 


Sometime this weekend I may pop over to our local Home Accent store. It has changed a lot since it first opened. It is 100,000 square feet with individual booths. And about 2/3's of it is now featuring antiques at awesome prices. I have seen Pyrex there in antique booths at thrift store prices. So it is on my to-do list this weekend.


I want to price tablecloths while I'm out today. I am so over the winter one, but my spring one has been around for several years ad I'm kind of over it as well. I'm still wanting to find one that looks vintage but I decided to keep my table full size so I'm pretty sure finding a vintage one that big will be next to impossible. So I'm just going with something springy. 


Have a great Saturday.