June 14th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Flea Market Tips, a Treasure and a Video Tips for Flea Market Shopping Have you ever been to a flea market? They are a cross between a humongous garage sale, a bad discount store, and a treasure hunt. It’s the treasure hunt part that’s fun. Not everything billing itself a “flea market” has much in [...]
Category : Antiquing Together
June 8th, 2011 @ Kathy // 2 Comments
If you’re a frequent reader you have seen several tablescape posts lately that mixed and matched glass. In fact you’ve seen these two patterns of glass – Swirl and Lido – before but not quite this combination. I saved the best for last! This table combines Swirl ultramarine teal depression glass place settings – plates, [...]
Category : Depression Glass Tables
June 5th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
If you read this blog you’ve seen our tag line “Shopping with us is like antiquing with your best friend”. That’s kind of a gutsy statement to make when you don’t know me, we’ll probably never meet and you’re shopping online. There are three reasons I say this: I love glass too. You will see [...]
Category : Antiquing Together
June 3rd, 2011 @ Kathy // 2 Comments
Want to find your fortune? This nice little bowl is Fortune pink depression glass from Hocking. No, it’s not going to make you rich but it might make you happy! Hocking Glass made a few patterns for many many years, like Cameo or Block Optic, that came in several colors and a wide selection of [...]
Category : Pink Depression Glass
June 1st, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Thank you for visiting with us this Thursday! If you’ve read my recent tablescapes you’ve seen that I’m playing around with mixing and matching different glass patterns. It’s fun. Since most of us don’t have complete sets of vintage glass patterns, it is real to life. Today we’re using three patterns that play well together. [...]
Category : Depression Glass Tables
May 25th, 2011 @ Kathy // One Comment
You know those helpful articles with time saving tips? They always say to cook enough for meals in advance and never ever use the term “left over”? Well…. that’s what I’m doing today. It’s a “planned over”, not a “left over”. You remember the table from a few weeks ago with Cameo green and yellow [...]
Category : Depression Glass Tables
May 20th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
When you were a kid did you ever make an atrocious rhyme (on par with Drink in Pink), then laugh like a hyena and go around saying “I’m a poet and you didn’t know it”? Maybe you were more literary than we were – or maybe you enjoyed bad puns instead. Anyway. Today’s Pink Saturday [...]
Category : Pink Depression Glass
May 18th, 2011 @ Kathy // 3 Comments
It’s getting near that time when friends stop by in the afternoon for a cup of tea on the porch or a cookie while you sit together on the swing. Here’s an easy way to dress up your casual afternoons with pink and crystal. This pretty table combines clear plates with pink depression glass sherbets [...]
Category : Depression Glass Tables
May 10th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
If you collect glass you probably have a piece or three that you never were able to identify. These dratted pieces linger on the shelf and wave at you when you walk by. I can hear them taunting me. “Who made me? Don’t YOU want to know?!? What’s MY name? Nyah nyah Nyah.” (OK, I [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
May 4th, 2011 @ Kathy // 5 Comments
Let’s set the table to look like a daffodil in spring. This rainbow table is my favorite depression glass pattern, Cameo, in yellow and green. I love how the pattern looks in green and adding yellow just adds joy. Doesn’t that dancer look like she is dancing for happiness? This time I switched out the [...]
Category : Depression Glass Tables
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