Snowflakes

Just wanted to share my latest additions...and my new love for the Snowflake pattern.

I got a late Christmas gift from my friend Chelsa. She knows how much I love Pyrex and she gave me the perfect gift!! -- a Pyrex bowl that she already owned but knew that I would love and treasure. She was right!

It goes perfectly with the butter dish and very large casserole that I found at the thrift store recently. I LOVE this large casserole dish and didn't even know that Pyrex made one this big until I discovered this one. I haven't baked anything in it yet but I have plans for a big mac daddy Mac & Cheese soon. :)

Soon after I received the mixing bowl, I found an Ad on Craig's List for some beautiful Pyrex (finding Pyrex on my local CL is a rarity so I was super excited about this). One of the items in the Ad was this casserole below. It's now mine! :) I'll post the other items I got from CL soon.

I am loving the snowflake pattern and can't wait to add on more pieces!

Happy Pyrex hunting this week!

--Erin {erinink.etsy.com}

pleased to meet you

Hello there pymaniacs, I am honoured to take up my place as a new contributor and look forward to sharing my musings about the glassware I love with like minded folk.

I live in Oxfordshire, England where you can't venture very far without stumbling upon a well-stocked charity shop, brimming with goodies to be discovered. Since I was a teenager I've been picking up various little bits of mid century miscellany, but I'm fairly new to Pyrex, having picked up my very first baking dish last summer.

As you can see, my collection is very much in its infancy, but it is fair to say I have fallen well and truly head over heels in love with vintage Pyrex and there's no going back. I recently wrote about all the many reasons why adore it over on my own blog and I would love to hear all you reasons for loving it too.

My current favourite piece is this little gravy boat, which I bought recently for only

 £1 ($1.61) - score!

and my latest addition is this egg shell blue butter dish, also a steal at

£1.50 ($2.42)

I can be quite fussy about the pieces I buy- I disregard anything adorned with fruit or chintzy little flowers (I'm all for granny chic, but there's definitely a limit).

Thank you again for having me- I'm now off to read some more about your super finds and to envy those of you with anything pink!



Mother Of Purl xx

Tuesday Finds

Took Sprout junking before taking him to school today. Here are our finds.

I finally found a milk white w/ pattern butter dish, I plan on listing it in my etsy shop because I already have a clear one that I rather like (AmysVintageStuff.etsy.com)

The fridge dishes are DBD, but I like the look and I don't have to worry so much with being careful with those.

AND finally the Beautiful Balloon chip bowl 404. Pretty, huh? I thought so too until I got to the register and turned it over --- the smaller handle looked to have a minor chip on it, turn it over and :(
I have a couple girlfriends that are just starting to collect, so this would be a nice piece to show or even use until they find one in better condition.

Land-O-Pyrex and Butter Dish Follow-Up

Here in the land of Pyrex....it was jam time!

You can spy the 444 Butterprint bowl on the left. I had a lot of blackberries, 4 kilos to be exact, so I made 14 jars (all sterilized and processed) and had some left over for a big 2 cups jar and a small fridgie full!

Delicious with butter on a toast!

Now for the butter dishes! Thank you SO much for all your delightful and helpful comments! I was able to re-arrange the cupboard when I was preparing for the jam. I had a lot of mason jars in it; so off to be filled with jam they went and I was able to keep all 7 in the cupboard with the Autumn Harvest one in front, just waiting for a big stick of butter!

It ends well for this Pyrex nut! When there's Pyrex ,there's a way!  

Butter Dishes

The other day my better half asked me if we really needed all those butter dishes in the cupboard....

I was going to say YES YES YES! But then I realized that we hadn't put butter in a butter dish since FOREVER!

Of course as a MAJOR Pyrex hoarder I want all my pieces with me all the time....The Pyrex channel...Just Pyrex....24 hours a day!

But as a somewhat reasonnable person, I will put them away in the basement and just keep one in the cupboard in case I have company and need to serve butter...

Now which one would you keep?