Hoo are you Tuesday!

1. Do you prefer sweet or salty foods?

 I love both! Salty and sweet yum, yum

2. Name your 3 BEST personality traits!

Funny

Positive disposition

Nuturing

3. Name your 3 worst personality traits!

 Can be unforgiving if betrayed
Can be slightly lazy

Sharp tongue

                                                                                     

                              4. Do you collect anything?

I collect dolls from various artists

Vintage Pyrexx

Fiesta Ware 

                                                                         
                        5. What is your favorite season of the year?

Autumn hands down!

So HOO ARE YOU??

Join in Hoo are you at Night Owl Crafting!

What to do with Vintage Flour Sacks...

These are so cool! My guess is from the 30's and 40's. My friend found them at a thrift store and she didn't know what to do with them so she gave them to me. I really like them, I am just at a loss on what to do with them. I thought of re-creating them with stuffing inside and displaying that way. Any ideas would be really appreciated. I have never heard of Sea Island Sugar Company or Harvest Blossom, they must me old.

Have you ever seen anything so cute...

This is Miss Cindy (Cinderella) one of my 13 golden retriever puppies. She is 4 weeks old. I haven't golden puppies around for quite a few years. We bred both our girls at the same time and got 13 puppies, 12 females and one male. They are so fun. A couple of them are going to local service dog organizations. We have just been having more fun with these babies.

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Who doesn't love Vintage Pyrex!!!

I really do love vintage/retro dinnerware, cookware and bake ware. In particular I love vintage Pyrex. It just makes me want to cook or bake. The colors and patterns are so happy.
When I got married I received a full set of Pyrex Spring Blossom nesting bowls. I used those for years, but alas after 6 children and 37 years of marriage they have all been broken. I am always looking on Ebay for vintage stuff and discovered a whole new world of vintage Pyrex in most every pattern they manufactured.
Today being my birthday and since I always purchase my own present from my husband I found a great deal on what a full set of vintage Pyrex Primary Colors nesting bowls. I can't wait to receive them!!! I also found a birthday present from me to me a set of 3 Pyrex Friendship casserole dishes. The Friendship pattern is one of my favorites because of the bright red and yellow colors.


Corning produced the Pyrex brand in the mid 1940's and if you look at the patterns over the years they really reflect the decade they were produced in:

Set of nesting bowls in Pyrex Primary Colors

manufactured 1940's

Set of 3 Pyrex Friendship Casserole dishes

manurfactured 1967

Pyrex Cinderella Spring Blossom nesting bowls

manufactured 1972

Avacado green was really the trendy color

for the early 70's.

Butterprint or Amish Pyrex nesting bowls manufactured 1957

One of the most popular for collectors Pyrex Gooseberry pattern

shown here in set of Cinderella nesting bowls

manufactured 1957

Very collectible pattern Pyrex Rainbow Stripe shown here 

in the 3 colors mixing bowl set

manufactured 1965

These are a rare find and a little pricey.

I love this pattern shown below in nesting bowls;

New Dot manufactured in 1967.

Very reflective of the 60's with dots and bright colors.

I would love to hear comments on your childhood with Pyrex or about your own collections.

If you have any pictures you would like to share of your own collections please

email them to me susielilypad@gmail.com. I will include them in this post.

Congratulations to my Giveaway Winner!!!

Way to go Rikki Jill !!!!
You won!!!
Thanks to my two participants!!

Embroidered Dish Towel Giveaway!!!

I love doing giveaway's and it's been so long since I have done one. I created this 28" 100% cotton Flour Sack dish towel embroidered in a late summer theme. Since it's for August this will be a short giveaway so the  winner can enjoy the dish towel for the month.


Rules:
~ Must be a follower and leave a comment including your email address


If this goes well I plan to give away a dishtowel monthly.


Contest ends Monday August 15th!

Tea Time for the Colonial...

I love Old Town Alexandria with all the pre-revolutionary buildings and cobble stone streets. I never visit my son with-out going to Old Town. This past May while visiting my son and his wife I toured the Carlyle House built in August 1753. 

Carlyle House parallels the early history of Alexandria, colonial Virginia, and America.
It was left to decay after the Civil War when it served as a hospital, but thankfully during the Bicentennial, the Carlyle House was restored by the Northern Virginia National Parks Authority. Now it serves to educate tourists about the
 lifestyle of an 18th-century Virginia family and their servants and slaves.


During the tour of the house I happened upon the gift shop which of course I could not resist. It is a lovely gift shop with so many colonial inspired goodies. I also love tea sets. I saw this particular one on display and had to have it. The price was very reasonable and I was just drawn to the sunny yellow. The gift shop host explained this was a replica of what the common colonial would have used for tea time.  Very practical and durable, yet not dull.  I love it!
I had them wrap it up good and had a heck of time getting it on the plane in the overhead bin :-).  


It's perfect for summer my summer display in my living room sitting on my coffee table.

The Brown Betty style teapot shows the practicality of the colonials.

The Beehive motif was popular because of the bee's industrious nature.

Mustard Yellow was also a popular colonial color.

If they would have had this set in red I would have brought that home too!