Browsing Tag »Vintage Stemware
September 22nd, 2011 @
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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 [...]
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Fancy Fun Friday
September 15th, 2011 @
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That title has a lot of F’s in it. Fostoria is fun and it is a little fancy and tomorrow is Friday! Some weeks it’s easy to pick the Fancy and some weeks it’s a little harder. Today was one of the harder ones. I’ve been balancing our checkbook and paying the bills and getting [...]
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Fancy Fun Friday
August 18th, 2011 @
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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, [...]
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Fancy Fun Friday
August 4th, 2011 @
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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 [...]
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Fancy Fun Friday
July 27th, 2011 @
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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 [...]
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Tips to Identify Glass
July 6th, 2011 @
Kathy //
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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 [...]
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Fostoria Glass Tablescapes
June 15th, 2011 @
Kathy //
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Today’s a retrospective of three tables using American Sweetheart soft white depression glass. American Sweetheart is exquisite, lots of scrolls and swags, scalloped rims and the most glorious pure thin white glass. Which table do you like better? First one combines American Sweetheart with pink Windsor. This table looked so-so on a cloth but [...]
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Depression Glass Tables
June 8th, 2011 @
Kathy //
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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, [...]
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Depression Glass Tables
June 1st, 2011 @
Kathy //
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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. [...]
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Depression Glass Tables
May 26th, 2011 @
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This week we’re back to the birds, Persian Pheasants etched stemware from Tiffin Glass. Just about every glass company made an etch with pheasants or peacocks. This one has a pair of birds facing each other on a big urn overflowing with flowers. What make this one fancy? It’s a cocktail stem. You can imagine [...]
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Fancy Fun Friday