Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Mixing it Up

First off, I really love plastic kitchenware. The bright colors, the virtual indestructibleness, the usually quite affordable prices. I don't want fancy gold rimmed china plates to eat off of, give me bright yellow plastic any day.

I also really love vintage plastic kitchenware. Again, the bright colors and affordable prices make vintage plastics fun to seek out at flea markets and antique stores. I haven't bought any vintage in quite a while (that damned economy thing again) but really enjoy the pieces that I do have. One of my favorites is a sugar canister that I found at a thrift shop for a whopping 95 cents! I'm also quite fond of my aqua canister set that sits in my dining area cupboard.




Secondly, I also really love Target. What does Target have to do with plastic kitchenware? Only that they have the coolest new plastic dishes and bowls and cups and platters you've ever seen. Plastic plates and dishes that look like china but only when you pick them up do you realize that they are plastic. I'm saving my money to completely redo our dinnerware and get rid of all the mismatched plates and bowls that are cluttering up my kitchen.

We did splurge and buy a set of plastic mixing bowls when we were doing our usual weekly cat food and litter shopping, we just couldn't resist. We've been using the set of Tupperware bowls that I've had since about 1987 or so, and while they are still quite usable even though one lid was melted when I laid it on the stove, forgetting that I had just turned the burner off. These new bowls don't have lids, but hey, that's what plastic wrap was invented for, right?

Anyway, here's my new bowl set which was christened when I mixed up a package of cookie mix in the big green one last night.


Twenty bucks. At a Target near you.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

What to Blog About Today?

I have nothing interesting to blog about today, not that I blog about anything that interesting to begin with, so today I think I'll share some of my etsy favorites with you.
I don't do a lot of shopping on etsy mainly because I'm trying not to spend money on non-necessities, but I see a lot of etsy sellers with some really nice things, so I 'heart' them and save them in my favorites so I can go back and look at their shops later. It's kind of like browsing through the Speigel catalog-do they still print that?-looking but never actually buying.
So, here are a few of my favorites:
This collage is made on an old flash card and is from http://lanisvintage.etsy.com. I don't know how to make those clickable thingies where you just click on the words and it links you so for now I'm just going to put the whole shop address in. I'm too lazy to figure out how to do much on this blog. Bear with me.
These are vintage bird pencil sharpeners from http://shop66.etsy.com. I love anything retroey fifties and sixties and also little bird things, so I may have to get one of these.
And this funny bunny necklace is from http://polkadotthunder.etsy.com. Plastic! My favorite material!

Shop etsy.com!!!