and they call it etsy love

a few things i am digging on etsy right now

this portrait from thepairabirds

this vintage journal form TheFancyLamb

this tile magnet from erinink

oh, etsy how i love you!!!

Sunday Happiness

had a wonderful afternoon hanging out with some great ladies and my little guy. there were fall festivities involved: operation embrace fall is in full effect. watched a little bit of football and there promises to be a real good one for the night game. got a chance to do some sewing this weekend and started plotting my next project. there was Pinterest involved :) had so much fun relaxing with my men this weekend. i also used my pretty Pyrex butter dish...love it. i am very content this sunday.

What made you happy this weekend?

and they called it Pyrex Love

Go ahead and ohhh and ahhhh. I did :) Aren't these golden Pyrex bowls adorable? Thanks to Beeps for finding the one with the little handles at a thrift shop near her house. I mean as much as I love Pyrex, me and thrift stores are not a good match. I never find anything. Beeps has agreed to school me on the ways of thrifting and I have will have to take her up on it. Although having a personal shopper is not a bad arrangement ;)

Adorable Fridgies

My pyrex collection is growing! Well I found this adorable fridge set while I was vacationing in Vegas. It is in great condition and the wonderful lady who sold it to me was such a jewel. I am not really a pink person but this set is GORGEOUS and how could I refuse? I love it and I think I just need to cook so I can have some leftovers to put in these beauties ;)

Bad Blogger

I am in Vegas with my bestie, yay for fun trips. On our first full day what did we do? Hit up a thrift store!! Fun times. The store was HUGE and quite well organized. None of that creepy, closed up goodwill smell either. It had pretty cool furniture, a decent women's section but you know what it was lacking? Pyrex. Not one single piece. Ugh! The nice salesperson told me it goes fast and she even went in the back to see if they had any that had not made it out to the sales floor. No luck. She did find some Corning Ware (anyone care to fill me in on the difference between the two and yes, I tried Google) that was in excellent condition. Not a win for my Pyrex hunt but certainly the kind of place that made the browsing easy.

What was really interesting about the place was on the entire top floor were several artists shop/galleries. The little ones toured each spot and really enjoyed the art. It was certainly cool.

I walked out empty handed and this is what makes me a bad blogger is there were so many cool things to take pictures of and I did not take one single picture. I promise I will do better.

Pretty in Pyrex

I have some sherbet love! Oh, and the pretty blue one was a bonus. Aren't these bowls the prettiest? I think so!

Awesome Day!

First things first, I slept in this morning. Past 8 am! Woo-hoo. I actually woke up at 9:08. That is a miracle. I always wake up early,early, early. I convinced D to head to a local yard sale to search for Pyrex and vintage sheets. We found neither. D was convinced that instead of heading to a yard sale we should have a yard sale ourselves, silly guy. I like our stuff and it is not heading out of here ;) After our quick and unproductive trip to the yard sale we went on a nice morning walk. Having D made the walk more bearable and we even walked for longer. (I think exercising with him was on my list of things to do w/ D and I hope we do it again really soon). Anyway, we walked and talked and challenged each other. Great start, right?

My day just kept getting better. My cousin Jamie wanted me to go shopping with her and since there was a Goodwill in the same shopping center we went in and took a look around. Well Jamie and I are not the best thrift store shoppers. I swear it is a gift that some folks have and some folks don't....we notice the closed up, yucky smell. The racks of stuff that seem too daunting to tackle. The whole place is just so much. (There are many stores that we feel this way about, so I am not convinced it is just a thrift store thing but I digress.) This Goodwill was rather neat and organized. We were off to find some Pyrex. Well o well, we found 2 pieces. One was a divided dish that was a little too floral/shiny and the other was a cute fridge one that was too scratched to really get....two duds. But we were there so we pursued the china section and left empty handed. I want to collect Pyrex but am I not cut out for this chase? Time will tell, huh.

We also ate at this awesome Mexican restaurant. Yummy! Guac and chips to die for! Our day continued with a mall run but I was too stuffed to do more than look around. So far my summer is off to a great start!

Pyrex Love

Ok, I really, really love vintage Pyrex. I do. I have decided to bite the bullet and start my Pyrex collection. Oh, me oh my I found a gorgeous Sunflower Divided Casserole dish. After a lot of hemming and hawing (is that how hawing is spelled, seems weird to type it) I bought the dish. It is in pristine condition, no nicks or scratches. Love it! Sooooooo it has started. Where will this Pyrex love take me? Who knows?