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I love the holidays. Really. This was a huge score for my Pyrex-collecting ego. If there is such a thing?!

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Just hopped into a Goodwill last week and found these little babies waiting there for me...

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*Shuffle*
*Shuffle*
*Crash!*
*Boom!*

Here I am! Coming to you from underneath a mountain of cardboard boxes! We have moved and started settling. Yes. I said started. I haven't been thrifting a whole lot, but here and there I manage to get out and investigate the shops. My mom mailed me this book which lead me to start seeking these kind of retro terry cloth towels and the like. I don't have many - and haven't found many lately. I don't know what I'll do with them, but they've come in handy as fun rags. I took this picture in the old backyard. We don't have a clothesline yet but they're pretty easy to throw together so that'll have to be project #4,763. Really, we don't have that many projects. Our house is in excellent shape! Today we went to an architectural salvage yard and bought a cypress door that I'm convinced will make an excellent dining room table. Steve is outside sanding it right now. I should go get my camera!

I hope all of you have had a wonderful time at the thrifts! I have missed this place, so, so much.

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Is anything better than butter? Pyrex comes in a close second...

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So we closed today and between going out for breakfast and Coldwell Banker, I got to run into my favorite thrift shop and found these three tiny Pyrex bowls. Yippee! I have seen the black/tan striped bowl many times but it is hard to find in a good condition. I have found many pieces lately but because of the move I just don't have the time to snap anything. My collection is growing, growing, growing. Missing it here and missing you!

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Sorry folks, since I'm packing things up as they come home I miss the occasional Kodak moment, so there'll be no picture with this post (I will take a picture once I've moved). I have the good grace of having every other weekend be three days long, and as you might guess, I spend Fridays at my favorite thrifts. I spotted eight pieces of Pyrex yesterday (actually, I spotted 11, but I took home 8) and was one happy camper. So I have 8 more Pyrex bowls to share once I get a chance to unpack them! Hope all of you are having a nice weekend. Happy thrifting!

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For such a small price, I couldn't say no to this tiny Shenango creamer...the olive color is great, too. It doesn't have a handle which I really like.
And for a view of the bottom:

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Back:

Oops. I broke the cardinal rule: no more dishes! I couldn't help this purchase. Also, I've been visiting a Goodwill in Boynton Beach on my lunch breaks that consistently turns up nothing! When I saw these plates I thought I would try to turn my luck around!

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I love bookends - especially alphabet bookends - but I never break down and buy them because they always seem ridiculously expensive. These are a little scuffed, dirty, well-worn and loved, but they weigh approximately 30 pounds. Each. I love them! I feel so lucky to have found them.

*Steve and I are packing up our belongings and getting ready to move into our first home! My posting might be sparse during the month of June, but I will continue to hit the thrift shops (I actually found some Fiestaware, miscellaneous Homer Laughlin and Syracuse pieces this morning...) even though it may seem like I'm being dormant.

Thank you always for your patronage here - this is one of my favorite places to dish.

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A lunch break visit to a Goodwill turned out to be a total bust, so I stopped at another on my way home (when you have the thrifting fever, there is little you can do to stop it). I found this piece of pottery for a nice price - the color is amazing! And for the bottom:

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I said to Steve today, "I think I have a new thing to collect." He turned white and fell over. Just kidding! But I do have something new that I'm looking out for (and that I have been, actually). Retro jack-o-lanterns!

There's a story in all of this. Steve and I have the same birthday, October 29. It's close to Halloween, so, how can I not love jack-o's? Pumpkins are symbols of birthdays to me - and Fall, my favorite time of year. In fact, this very jack-o-lantern was made 10/15/1979, mere days before my birth (does that mean I'm retro?!). So it's a little kitschy, but I'm smitten for his toothy grin.

As we're in the process of moving, pardon the mess!

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This pretty-in-pink number came from a thrift shop that is so near and dear to me, I couldn't scoff at the price (I used to volunteer full-time for this particular nonprofit). The woman working the register leaned over to me after she wrapped this up and said all breathy-like, "These are collector items, you know."

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This is the second time I've found smaller, square Pyrex in the "wrong" place - it was with the gift items, not the dishes. Teehee. Score for me.

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*Torn* between keeping one and sending one to my mom. I should share!

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I'm pretty sure that my fence should be wooden and have pickets, but alas, it was free! And it makes a good place to show off tablecloths in the early evening (Cole could care less about the tablecloth - he is looking for the baby ducks that live in the trees!).

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Didn't I say something recently about no more dishes? Oh, wait. Steve loves Pyrex. I'm safe!

All in a day's work before noon, I found these Pyrex pieces at three local thrift stores. The treasure hunter in me was delighted. Needless to say, I am...amassing Pyrex. What's so wonderful about it is that it fits inside of itself quite nicely so it doesn't take up too much room in the cupboards. Recently, from the library, I had Pyrex: The Unauthorized Collector's Guide; turns out I should have renewed it! Alas, I can just get it again. I took individual portraits of each piece but all of them together seemed a better fit. Not the greatest photo but it is something!

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Funny, I bought these at different times. One of them I bought a few months ago and the other I found a couple of weekends ago...but they're identical, made by Hager USA. When the time is right, I will plant something in either of them. Because that's the thing to do!

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Today, Steve issued an edict: NO. MORE. DISHES! I mean, what happened to the original idea of this blog wherein I'd be buying a lot of furniture and restoring it or giving it a whole new look? That idea probably went south when we bought the last piece of thrifted furniture that we needed, and I can't remember what or when that was. So this is what Solid Cherry has become: a little booth of wares!

I passed my 100th post a few posts back and thought I would celebrate by getting all of my pretties out for shits and giggles. Though I never buy things for a certain color, I see a theme in all of the madness: variations of lighter blues, white, black, and gray. I do use a lot of these dishes, especially on weekend mornings when I am lazy with time. But everything I thrift is something I use in one way or another even if I don't have an immediate purpose for it.

One more thing I have to say - though I've been blogging elsewhere for nearly two years, Solid Cherry feels like home! That's probably because it is. Thanks for stopping by -- and here's to the centennial!

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What the underside looks like:

I am going to *pretend* this quilted throw was once made in a prairie farmhouse and kept a younger version of me nice and warm during a bitter cold winter. Do you see what Florida does to a girl? It makes her daydream of the plains! And I have never lived in the plains! Eeek. I'm going to cherish this, no matter how relatively new it could be...it's just the most precious thing I have thrifted in a long, long time.

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Happiness is finding five Fiestaware plates by Homer Laughlin...for fifty cents each...and dating them to the 1950s! Take a look at the tablecloth ($3) and gray Fiesta plate up close:

You can tell from the three sagger pin marks on the back of this plate that it isn't contemporary Fiestaware (post 1986)...it's the old stuff!

...They might sell for as much as $8 a piece. Oh, I love to thrift!

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Primroses! The texture of these postcards is something I wish you could touch because it is the reason why I bought these...they feel like worn sandpaper.

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I love a retro postcard. I used to collect them religiously but over time have used them and so my collection has dwindled considerably...this is the second time(!) I've owned the San Antonio postcard (pictured at bottom)! The postcard on top features the Badlands...where I was nearly a year ago this week!

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A Fire King bowl holding some of my favorite things: painted Christmas light bulbs. I'll stash the bulbs for Christmas crafty goodness and use them in some way but the bowl has already made its way into my cupboard!

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This is a newer Homer Laughlin pattern I'm pretty sure - Gothic - but the weight and durability of these plates comes second to none! These will probably mingle with my everyday dishes - white Fiestaware, also by Homer Laughlin!

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Heavy in the dish department lately, I know...but I am a certified dinnerware rescuer! Especially with abandoned saucers. They already have so much trauma in their lives - their teacup is missing! I give them a nice bath, a prominent place to stay...

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I took one look at that chunky handle and thought, now that's coming home with me. And it's made by Walker, which is a restaurant ware label. The color! Oh that color. I can't tell you how many ways I love that color...

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My mom collects this pattern - Liberty Blue by Staffordshire. It was a promotional pattern for the Federal Savings + Loan bank she worked for during the 1970s-80s. She'd dumpster dive for the overstock that'd get delegated to the trash. I don't know. We might be related.

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These are Homer Laughlin plates made for a PA catering company, Nilon Brothers. I'm going to do a little more research on them when I get to work tomorrow! But they are just so adorable and I couldn't believe the price.

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I hope you enjoyed Pyrex week. Now on to more of the random. This painting was impossible to leave behind. Anyway, it's dated 1966. Surfs up!

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The last of my Pyrex...it just makes me want to go shopping for more!