Pyrex in White.

Hi

Hope you're having and enjoyable day.

Today I wanted to show you a few vintage home ware pieces I recently purchased.

You probably don't know this but I have a bit of a thing for white.
 At Christmas I like to use white, I like white clothing and I love white paint.

Not that He (our partner) will let me paint the walls and furniture white as I would like to do!

(But that's another story)

And I definitively love white kitchenware.

She of course, wants all the colours of the rainbow in our home, and can`t understand why I love white.

Its not that I don't adore many of the vintage pieces sporting wonderful bright and happy colours.
 All those 40s florals, retro 60s patterns and seventies oranges and yellows all have a special place in my heart. Its just that white gives me a nice fresh and enjoyable feeling when ever I look at it.

 White is clean and pure, calming and soft, bright but still light and has a certain depth to it, as if it has no end.

Personally I think my enjoyment of it might have something to do with living with She!

She loves every colour, pattern, style and era. Every little bit of kitsch and industrial, rustic or shabby chic piece we come across.If She had total control our house would be living in some sort of hybridized hoarders heaven. 

I think I really need the colour (or non colour) white just to keep my sanity and my eyeballs.

Anyway - enough waffling.

What I really wanted to share with you were these great vintage pieces. 

Most of them are Agee Pyrex made here in Australia.

 From right to left. A cute little milk glass vase, Agee Pyrex bowl, Agee small oval casserole dish with black leaves and a large Anchor Hocking colonial bowl.

  On the right is an Agee Pyrex casserole dish in the Black Rose pattern, reportedly a fairly rare pattern.

In the front though not white are Agee ramekins from the 60s, that I purchased at the same time.

The White bowl is the same shape as the ramekins

This white set of ramekins with the cute strawberry motif are 70s Crown Pyrex (formerly Agee Pyrex)

And here is a smaller Black Rose casserole that we have owned for a few years now.

Agee seemed to have made a number of white pieces with black patterns so I'm keeping my eye out for some other pieces I`ll be able to show you in the future.

Love white Pyrex? We would love to know what your favourite patterns are.

Catch you soon

Me.

Weekend Wandering.

Hi everyone

Hope you had a very nice weekend of relaxation and fun.
 I had a great day out and about on Sunday with my Daughter T.
T came to pick me up and drove us up along the winding and hilly, scenic Blackall Range tourist drive to Maleny.A local Hinterland town, here on the Sunshine Coast.

Some of the fun we had for the day:

Eating Colin James hand churned gelato

Drooling (nicely) over the contents of antique stores

and walking the pathways of  the Maleny Botanical Gardens.

T had white chocolate and raspberry gelato, and mine was Turkish delight (yummo).

No I did not buy any of the drooled on antiques : (

But I did buy these!

Well She chose them of course, it was the only time she made an appearance all day.

Yes, T purchased a lovely framed flower print as well as a very sweet embroidered lace hankie.

The Maleny Botanical gardens was fabulous. I would recommend a visit to anyone. 

I cant believe I live on the Sunshine Coast and had never heard of it before.

 I had to check to make sure I haven't been living under a rock! 

No, no rock.

 Views of the Glasshouse Mountains, from the Maleny Botanical gardens

 Waterfalls at the base of terraced gardens, with one of the gazebo's at the top.

This is only a snippet of whats there, and my little point and shoot does not do it justice.

Lucky for you T has a much better camera, and you get to see just a little more.

This is only two of the 350 or so birds in the aviary!

And a little of the many many flowers to be viewed, sniffed and admired.

We had a great day, with lots of views and fresh air, sunshine, food, feathers, chin wagging and laughter.

 Hope your weekend was as nice as mine.

Catch you soon.

Me : )

St Patricks Day Vintage Post Cards

Hi everyone.

And Happy St Patrick`s Day to all that celebrate it.

She and Me can claim a variety of nationalities in our bloodline, but unfortunately none of them are Irish.
St Patrick's day always seems like such a happy and fun celebration, we wanted to join in a little bit of the fun

  So we thought we would pop up a few wonderful vintage post cards to get everyone in the mood for the happy day of green ahead.

So to be sure to be sure of having a great day!

Photography from my home garden

Today's home garden photography collection is all about the sky. 

These were all taken from the garden, but looking up.

I Hope you enjoyed these photos and that they have inspired you to look up and enjoy your part of the sky more often.

Catch you  soon. 

Me