Perfect Christmas Gifts for That Hard to Shop For Person

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Perfect Christmas Gifts for That Hard to Shop For Person

Do you have someone hard to shop for on your Christmas list? Is your mother-in-law a little picky about what she puts in her house? You won’t go wrong with a gift in perfect taste that is beautiful, functional and will create warm memories. Vintage glass candy dishes like the Cambridge Rose Point bowl shown [...]

Category : Gift Buying Guide - Collectible Glass

Tablescape Thursday – Enjoy Crystal Cut and Etched

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Tablescape Thursday – Enjoy Crystal Cut and Etched

Today we have a small table setting with just a few pieces of elegant glass. The plates are cut crystal from Seneca Glass and the etched water goblets are from Cambridge and the combination makes a pretty luncheon table.  Can you imagine a glass of white wine served with crystal plates full of salad with [...]

Category : Elegant Glass Tables

Pink Saturday – Cambridge Glass Decagon Sherbet Liner

July 30th, 2010 @ Kathy // 2 Comments

Pink Saturday – Cambridge Glass Decagon Sherbet Liner

Quick!  What do you call those little plates that go on the left just above your fork?  Bread and butter plates, right? If you have china dinnerware, then yes, bread and butter plates. If you have glass, then no.  This is a sherbet plate or sherbet liner. Yes, it looks like a bread and butter [...]

Category : Pink Elegant Glass

How to Help Your Family Appreciate Your Glass Collection Part 2

July 29th, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments

How to Help Your Family Appreciate Your Glass Collection Part 2

Earlier blog post I told the story of the older couple who sold me their Cameo depression glass because “their daughters didn’t want it”.  The couple never used the glass so no one had memories tied up in it. I have this glass now and will list it for sale so someone else can treasure [...]

Category : How to Enjoy Your Glass

Add Vintage Charm with Stemware – Cambridge Glass Rose Point

May 16th, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments

If you’re like me you wonder why glass companies would have sold special pieces just for iced tea.  Do people drink enough iced tea to warrant a special stem?  And why isn’t there a special glass for sodas or lemonade? Elegant glass companies made their beautiful vintage stemware long before soda became a daily drink. [...]

Category : Cambridge Glass

Rose Point Classic Etched Crystal Stemware and More

March 24th, 2010 @ Kathy // One Comment

Rose Point is special to me.  My mom and dad got a few pieces for wedding gifts but didn’t have enough to use and this sat in their buffet cupboard for many years.  When I started working with glass in 1999 I found their pieces and was so surprised they had such pretty glass they [...]

Category : Cambridge Glass

Book Report Sunday – Elegant Glass Pattern Identification

January 31st, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments

Welcome to Book Report Sunday.  Tonight is my favorite reference book for elegant glass, Elegant Glass: Early, Depression, & Beyond by Coe & Coe. Elegant glass is “good glass”, the sort that people bought at jewelry and high end department stores, by makers like Fostoria, Cambridge, Heisey.  It took skilled artisans to produce this glassware [...]

Category : Elegant Glass

Now Starring…. Depression Glass or Is It Elegant Glass?

January 19th, 2010 @ Kathy // 2 Comments

Recently Bill of Affordable Accoutrements, who writes the most enjoyable blog posts about his imaginative tablescapes, mentioned that he prefers elegant glass to depression glass.  That got me thinking.  Which do you prefer?  Which do I prefer? For me it’s not as easy a choice as it once was.  When I first started with glass [...]

Category : Elegant Glass

Neodymium Orchid Lavender Color Changing Glass – Cambridge Heatherbloom

December 5th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments

Isn’t this a pretty thing?  It’s even nicer in person.  This light pink amethyst color is called Heatherbloom and what makes this so interesting is that the glass changes color slightly under different lighting.  With normal light it is a lovely rose amethyst orchid color like the picture.  Under fluorescent light it is more lavender [...]

Category : Cambridge Glass

How to Add Pizazz to Your Entertaining

November 24th, 2009 @ Kathy // No Comments

Years ago glass makers produced two part ensembles to use for cheese and crackers.  The bottom plate was big enough to hold many crackers and one put a cheese ball or spread in the raised center comport piece.  Thus, a cheese and cracker set. The one we show here is from Cambridge Glass, their etch [...]

Category : Cake Plates and Serving Platters