How Did This Happen?

This is what happens when you never pass up a mini fridgie while thrifting.  There could be worse things, I suppose.  Until I started pulling stuff out of the cupboards I had no idea!  Oops.

More sets madness blogged at Harriet and Quince.

Fridgies!

Since I starting collecting Pyrex about a year ago, I noticed that fridgies seem to be hard to find here in the Twin Cities. Fridgies in good condition are even rarer. This past few weeks, luck has been on my side.

My first set (minus the largest fridgie) I found together. They were pushed to the back of the shelf near the bottom. I had been talking to another shopper (the two fiesta sets in my cart caught her eye) and wasn't really paying attention to what was on the shelf until another shopper moved a couple of ... well, something. I don't remember. I just remember seeing the pyrex. And diving for it.

Okay, so I didn't dive for it. That's what I did in my mind. Luckily, I was able to stop myself before I did that. Whew!

When I had a chance, I pushed a few more items aside and pulled out a three piece set of Spring Blossom. It looks like it is unused. Beautiful!

My first pieces of pyrex were a set of Spring Blossom cinderella bowls. (I had bought them because my mom had a set of them when I was growing up. And would never let me use them.)

I have slowly been collecting other Spring Blossom pieces as I find them in thrift stores.

The two smaller ones cost $2 each and the larger one cost $3. Not bad.

About a week later, at different store, I found this one in the Woodland pattern. Again, it was pushed to the back of the shelf with other items hiding it. After a quick inspection, it was paid for and on it's way home with me. It was in excellent condition, just like the ones above.

Not a huge fan of this pattern (like many of you), but it's growing on me. As I mentioned before, fridgies seem to be hard to find here in the TC, so I was feeling lucky to find one even if it wasn't in a pattern I collect.

This one cost me $4.

Since they seem to be hard to find, you can imagine my surprise when I found this blue fridgie with an older lid last night! I hesitated for a minute before I decided to purchase it. Glad I decided to buy it as I'm sure it would have been gone by the time I went back.

Yes, it was a little more than I am usually willing to pay at a thrift store, but it was in great shape with only one small chip in the paint. And I haven't seen a blue fridgie that was in such good condition before.

This one set me back $8.00.

Here are all my fridgies together. My beautiful, growing collection of fridgies.

As this is my first post, I would just like to say that I love seeing all your photos and reading your stories. Keep 'em coming!

Happy pyrex hunting this weekend, everybody!

New Obsession!

I've been collecting Pyrex for 4 years now. At first I hungered for ALL the pieces but as time passed and my collection grew, I started being 'picky' and passing entire patterns.
A couple of weeks ago, I started obsessing about Spring Blossom Green and Crazy Daisy. It made me think of Spring and flowers and sunshine.

So today I changed my display in the kitchen...

Best Friends!

Chatting...

My new acquisitions? A small fridgie and the larger refrigerator dish of the Verde set.

Aren't they fresh and sweet?

Hum Hum Fridgies!

I have a couple of new pieces but I was too lazy to take pics! So I thought I would go in the Vonlipi's Pyrex Vault and share some of my frigie pictures.

All in a row

Butterprint Deliciousness

Heavenly Delphite

Sunshiny Citrus

Cool Turquoise

Timeless Primary

I still haven't immortalize my Pink set. I also plan to take pictures of just the smaller ones, I will do this when all the yard work is done!

Have a great day :)

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!  

Red

Reading all the wonderful posts, I realised that I was ASSuming that everyone knew me (not too bright). So Here goes!
 I'm Valerie. I live in western Québec. I'm crazy about thrifting and having collecting Pyrex for 3 years now. My SO insists I have every Pyrex ever produced, but of course I disagree!

You can find me blogging here @ Vonlipis Favorites .

I was thinking about Pyrex (of course) ,Red Pyrex. There was not a lot produced. Originally you had the 402 Primary bowl and the smallest red fridgie from the original Primary refrigerator set.
For Xmas some Promo pieces were issued like the big red bowl with the gold holly and a big 2 1/2 casserole (that I know of). I think that red was not that popular in the 50's and 60's.

Then in the 70's, they started to produce the Frienship pattern and that pattern has some red pieces. But mostly it's red accents on the bowls and lids.

 

So shown here are the red 402 with my new olive wood spoon (LOVE) and fennel salad, the 472 Frienship casserole and the 501 small fridgie. As you can see I'm missing the lid for the Friendship casserole....If you have one you drop me a line, ok?

Have a great Pyrexy weekend!