August 20th, 2011 @ Kathy // 2 Comments
I’m a little late for Pink Saturday this week – it’s been one of those days. Thanks for stopping by! Our flower decorated pink depression glass console bowl is perfect to add pink. Console bowls are showy and easy to display in your dining room or on that hallway table. They fill in those awkward [...]
Category : Pink Elegant Glass
July 22nd, 2011 @ Kathy // 4 Comments
Do you like pink depression glass but aren’t sure how to use it? The serving bowl featured this week for Pink Saturday makes that decision easy. This is the serving bowl in American Sweetheart pink depression glass from MacBeth Evans. More people enjoy American Sweetheart than almost any other depression glass pattern – it is [...]
Category : Pink Depression Glass
July 21st, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to Fancy Fun Friday, our weekly blog party featuring those little touches that add fancy to our homes and lives. This week it’s horribly hot here in mid-Michigan and time for a cool, refreshing salad. Naturally we’ll serve it in a fancy bowl, like this Fostoria Italian Lace one. This looks fancy but it’s [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
June 27th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
This is a neat piece that’s not too common. Lancaster Glass made several patterns that look like etched glass, including this Cane Landrum design. The paisley motifs are raised to the touch – this is mold etched, mass produced depression glass. Lancaster made glass that is right on the border between elegant glass, with its [...]
Category : Gift Buying Guide - Collectible Glass
June 9th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to this week’s Fancy Fun Friday! Today we’re hauling out the big guns, the big fancy ones that is. Let’s welcome our Fostoria Chintz console bowl with wing handles. It’s a beauty! When I first started in glass the pieces that really called to me were the console bowls. For some reason these got [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
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
April 22nd, 2011 @ Kathy // 12 Comments
This week Beverly opened Pink Saturday to other colors and here we’re looking at a Fostoria green console bowl. This is the Versailles etch which I like more now than when I first saw it. Fostoria Versailles is a formal pattern, the center motif is a fan surrounded by scrolls. The scalloped shapes and beautiful [...]
Category : Pink Elegant Glass
March 14th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Quiz time! What pattern is this? If you don’t recognize it then don’t feel bad. Fostoria originally called this fresh springtime pattern Italian Lace, then for some reason changed it to Gold Lace the last two years they made it. Regardless which name you use this is not a common pattern. The etch is on [...]
Category : Other Fostoria Glass
December 15th, 2010 @ Kathy // 8 Comments
This last year I’ve shown you tablescapes with pink glass, blue glass, green glass, yellow glass and amber. After all this there is something special about beautiful pure clear crystal. Let’s take a look back at one of my favorite tables set with Fostoria Chintz crystal, perfect for a splendid Christmas dinner. This is the [...]
Category : Fostoria Glass Tablescapes
December 5th, 2010 @ Kathy // No Comments
Two of my favorite type of glass are bowls and candle holders and a console set is just about perfect. Fostoria Glass made console bowls and candle holders in all sorts of shapes and decorated with beautiful etches. Here is a link to a video we did this afternoon that shows off three different Fostoria [...]
Category : Console & Serving Bowls
Copyright © 2009 Depression and Elegant Glass to Share . All rights reserved.
Powered by templatic.com