I bet you never owned a sugar pail, or a whipped cream pail, or a special bowl for marshmallow, or a special little dish to hold ice around your glass of dinner time tomato juice. (If you do have a … [Read more...]
Gorgeous Elegant and Depression Glass Console Bowls – Eye Candy!
There are no antique shops where we live, zero, nada, zilch. In order to relieve my glass withdrawal symptoms I went through my photos for my favorites.This console bowl, one of my favorites, … [Read more...]
Vintage Crystal Ruffled Bowls Work Great for Salad!
You've probably seen vintage bowls with ruffled rims and maybe you wondered how useful that style could be. Dave gave me a ruffled bowl for Christmas and I can say from experience that it works great … [Read more...]
Lily Ponds – Lovely Shallow Bowls in Vintage Glass
What do you think of when you read "Lily Ponds"? Monet's serene garden? Frogs on lily pads? I bet you don't think of a wide, shallow bowl, but that's what Fostoria and others called … [Read more...]
Saying Good-Bye to An Old Friend – My Fostoria Lido Bowl
I have to remind myself that I'm in business to sell glass, not hang on to it forever. It's hard sometimes! Today I listed the very first Fostoria console bowl we ever bought. When I first … [Read more...]
Good Glass Site Day! Lily Ponds and Shallow Bowls for Flowers
It's Wednesday and time to share an interesting article from other glass lovers. You might remember I've shown off several lily ponds, or shallow bowls meant for flowers, over the years. I … [Read more...]
Fancy Fun Friday – Fostoria Glass Italian Lace Salad Bowl
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, … [Read more...]
Fancy Fun Friday – Fostoria Chintz with Wings – Console Bowl
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 … [Read more...]
Mayo Sets – Fostoria Chintz Etched Crystal Baroque
Every time I see mayonnaise sets like this Fostoria Chintz set I wonder how on earth people used enough mayo that they needed a separate serving piece. This mayo bowl is about 5 1/2 inches wide and … [Read more...]
Fostoria Etched Console Sets – Bowls and Candle Holders
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 … [Read more...]