Welcome to Making Life More Lovely! I am so glad you are here. If you were waiting to start your Pyrex® colored glass collection, you are in the right place. I recommend you start collecting NOW! I will share my reasons for this below.
First, some history if you are new to Pyrex®. Pyrex® started making glass for labs in the 1800s, then went on to produce clear glass for cooking, but Corning Glass started manufacturing the colored Pyrex® glass in the 1940s. …
Paperweights come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, different materials and designs. Murano for instance, is very famous for its glass paperweights and some can be very highly prized indeed. Another group come from Royal Crown Derby in England. In 1981 Royal Crown Derby issued a set of 6 animal paperweights filled with sand. They were the rabbit, owl, duck, quail, penguin and wren. Many more designs followed , all animal inspired shapes such as the Koala , Barn Owl, and Garden Snail.…
I have to admit it …. I have a soft spot for Fenton Glass Company Silver Crest serving pieces. I am drawn to any piece in this pattern. This probably explains why Fenton was so successful for over a hundred years until it stopped producing glassware in 2011. When I saw this piece on one of our treasure hunts, I knew I had to have it. The fact that Fenton hand crimped the edges of each glass piece (with almost perfect precision), along with the fact that the edge is clear glass when the rest of the glass is white is just amazing to me (how did they do that?). …
