San Antonio Find

My in-laws are visiting from San Antonio and they brought this little find with them for my birthday!

I don't have any black Pyrex so this little treasure was really cool. My first thought was how awesome it'll look when we have a Halloween party. The orange and black is just perfect. :) 

Here's some info on it. My in-laws were so excited to have found a rare Pyrex. Not bad for never having shopped for Pyrex before. :)

It's Pyrex season!!!

FINALLY!!! It's Pyrex season! I've searched all winter to find some and nothing has come up until now. 

We went and looked at a couple stores and I found this little gravy boat. It made me think of my 96 yr old grandma so, I HAD to get it. :)

Then we stopped at a store on the way home and found a mint yellow refrigerator dish. Sometimes I wish I could find the lids too, but I'm running out of storage space and it's easier to stack without lids.

Today I found this blue one. The lid was FILTHY! I thought I'd try all the tricks to get it clean.

The dish washed up perfect... The lid... it's still soaking. I scrubbed it with barkeeper's friend and tried a Mr. Clean sponge with no luck.

Then I found this cute little 1.5 pt bowl. It's such a cute pattern. I think I'll use it for cereal tomorrow. :) 

Here's to a fruitful Pyrex season!!

New Finds!!

Finally! I found some Pyrex!! 

I went to DI today looking for a tshirt and found this beauty...

A 2.5qt bowl! I LOVE LOVE LOVE this pattern. I was so excited I just had to snatch it up.

There was also this little dish. I thought it was a solid white until I went to wash it and discovered it used to be yellow. :( Why do all the good colors have to be ruined? Oh well, it's still pretty and I will use it for sure.

Bowtie Quilt

Last night I remembered that I had a baby shower to go to on Friday. I didn't feel like hauling 4 kids to the store to find a gift, so I figured I'd throw together a simple quilt this morning. 

It took me about 5 hours start to finish. I'm sure I could have gotten it done a little faster than that, but I had to take care of the kiddos while I made it. 

The idea from this quilt came from here. She has some really good quilts.

I ended up using some left over batting that I had and I am LOVING the feel of this blanket. It has a good weight to it, but it's still soft. I wouldn't mind a queen size quilt like this one.

Pyrex and quilting...

Since I haven't found much Pyrex lately I thought I'd post a pic of Pyrex I already had. 

It's been holding all the squares I've been quilting. 

I'm thinking I'll turn it into a queen size quilt. 

So, until more Pyrex shows up, I'll probably end up posting a lot of the sewing projects I've been doing.

The blues...

I'm switching out my winter blues for my greens and yellows for St. Patty's Day. :)

Pyrex right now is REALLY few and far between. :( I've been looking all over for some red Pyrex, but I've found nothing. There's been a few bowls that USED to be red... I hate finding those. Maybe when everyone starts spring cleaning I'll find some better finds.

Long time coming...

 It's been a while since I went out to find Pyrex, so today we went for a little hunt. We went to the local Value Village and found this set of Old Orchard Cinderella bowls. I wasn't quite sure if I really wanted to get them, but they were mint, so I snatched them up. Maybe I'll sell them on eBay or something.

 This little green casserole. It was too cute to pass up.

 This one wasn't the prettiest green, but it was mint and they were only asking $1 for it. Maybe I can store some of my sewing supplies in it.

 There they are! Not bad for only hitting up 2 stores. I really REALLY really wish I could find some red Pyrex though. Why does that have to be so hard to find?!

These two bowls I found at DI. I'm LOVING the yellow. I think it's my new favorite bowl. It had a bunch of white spots all over it and I thought it was chipped paint, until I looked at it in the light. I was able to get all the white specks off! Yay!