Romantic Interlude....

Sigh....

Sigh....

Sigh....

It is here at last....

I've been waiting for it for nearly 5 years....

 

Yes this is the Green New Dots 404 bowl.

 

If you're looking for me, I will be in my kitchen fawning over it!

 

It came from Etsy and even if I paid a pretty penny, it was still less; including shipping than the prices I usually see in Ebay.

 

Sleep tight :)

Old Loves and A Thrifty Find

Time flies in summer with all the garden chores...

Weed,weed,weed,harvest,weed,weed,weed,water,water, weed,harvest!

I was, however,able to take time and rediscover some old faves (i.e: some of the Pyrex I'd stashed and forgot about)

New Dots in blue a gift from Dad from The Brimfield Flea in Mass.

I'm always in awe the way light hits milkglass.

Stripes in blue (yep I forgot the real name of the pattern) Is it Pastel Stripes?

I'll look it up.

Again the light. It makes me all fuzzy inside

I'm glad I found you!

Now I thought I'd share some day to day Pyrex with you.

This is where some of my everyday Pyrex lives

Closer?

Huuuummm Pyrex!

I love me some Pyrex :)

How about a nice salad in Pyrex?

 This was super tasty!

Grape tomatoes,artichoke hearts, sliced black olives, green onions and green

and yellow beans fresh picked from the garden!

 Yummy!

OMG I almost forgot about the thrifty find!

Yes that is a lamp, a turquoise metal lamp.

Now Dan insists on placing the shade that way....but that leaves little room

for the light bulb!

Yes you're seeing right!

New from the Christmas Tree Shop in South Portland

$2.25!

I'm giddy every time I look at it !

Well that's it for me folks, sleep tight ! 

What were they thinking?

Last week I received a STRONG suggestion that the quantity of magazines lying around the house was TOO much...
Ans since everything in life is about compromise....And getting rid of mags (not the vintage ones) was really a good idea. So this week I go through all the mags one by one and I found this....

A new use for mismatched china in the April 2009 issue of Country Living.

There is a full tutorial on how to make a lamp with your mismatched china.....Did you notice the Pyrex bowl in the box? It's a New Dots 403. It is pretty hard to come by and is worth 15-20$.

Ok I wanna meet the person who has no use for a gorgeous bowl and is willing to drill a hole in the bottom.Which I consider extreme crafting.  

 I keep picturing crafters with shards of bowl inbedded in their faces screaming....Or in the emergency room: Tell me what happened....You see I was drilling a glass bowl...and

No you won't be seeing me anytime soon drilling Pyrex! Anyways I'm not too crazy about the end result...

I might do something like that but all in white which could be charming...or if Jadeite was coming out of my wazoo, I might try something in Jadeite 'coz the color is so gorgeous....But NO drilling!

I would so like to meet the crafters at Country Living and see what 'interesting' projects they have lying around in their heads....

Have a nice weekend dearest readers, and be very careful using powertools!