September 22nd, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
When I was in college I remember friends drinking Brandy Alexanders when I was not old enough to join them. The exotic looking drink always intrigued me with its luscious color and nutmeg sprinkle on top. Every time I see vintage cocktail stems they remind me of Brandy Alexanders. I’ll include the recipe at the [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
August 18th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Every time I see these Rose Point juice stems I think of a lovely Sunday brunch with friends. You could serve orange juice or mimosas in these to elevate your meal to special! You can see the recipe for mimosas at the end of this post. Glass companies made juice glasses in their popular patterns, [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
August 11th, 2011 @ Kathy // One Comment
Welcome to this week’s Fancy Fun Friday post, our weekly celebration of those little touches that add fancy to your life. Do you like mayonnaise or salad dressing? Here’s a fancy way to serve it for your sandwiches at lunch, certainly a far better way than sticking the icky jar on the table. This is [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
August 4th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to Fancy Fun Friday! Every week our blog party features something that’s fun and just a little bit fancy. We all enjoy those small bits of fluff and frills and that’s what we are celebrating. We’re all about vintage glass here, so our Favorite Fancies are – can you guess? – glass, elegant etched [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
July 27th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Sometimes it’s hard to know what glass you have. Fostoria marked very few of their pieces so unless you recognize the shape or the cutting or the etch it’s going to be difficult to identify the glass pattern. I thought it would be helpful to have a good photo identification guide online that showed all [...]
Category : Tips to Identify Glass
July 7th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to this week’s Fancy Fun Friday blog party. You’ve seen all sorts of different glass pretties, from a depression glass measuring cup to a gorgeous console bowl. Today we’re fancying our lunch table for summer BLTs. Don’t put that icky jar of mayo on the table. Leave it in the kitchen and serve your [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
July 6th, 2011 @ Kathy // 7 Comments
Last week I told you about our sun room adventure. Everything in the sun room is still in the dining room and will be there for yet another week! The carpet guys can’t come until the 15th, another nine days of mess. Luckily it’s summer and we’re eating on the deck. Let’s look at a [...]
Category : Fostoria Glass Tablescapes
June 16th, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to this week’s Fancy Fun Friday. Please join the blog party by posting your link below. It’s a fun way to see what other people like in their fancy moments. This week we’re enjoying our Fostoria Meadow Rose etched compote. You can call this a comport or compote; either name works for these fun [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
June 2nd, 2011 @ Kathy // No Comments
Welcome to Fancy Fun Friday! Today we’re not only fancy, but since this is the month for weddings and romance, we’re honoring all the June brides this month. This pretty creamer is in the Romance pattern from Fostoria Glass. Think back to when you started your first home. You probably didn’t have many pretty things [...]
Category : Fancy Fun Friday
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
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