In the last week.. An Extractor fan.. An RFID Credit card wallet.. A new Iphone case but we've also had several deliveries of wine boxes which are gifts from my husbands clients
Yes it's my husbands' Christmas gifts. He gets several cases of wine every year from certain business associates and clients.. I am tee-total...
I bought a new set of stepladders... Some detangler for my very long fine hair... A muti coloured Shoulder bag... Some o'keefe working hand cream ..and a Non scented, cotton covered microwave heat pack for my lower back and my knee ....almost all due to arrive tomorrow morning
I'm an avid collector of dishes, especially American-made. For the past few years I've been collecting Fiestaware, made in West Virginia. Each year they retire some colors and introduce new ones, so I always try to buy at least a cup and saucer in the new color. (Unless it's hideous and then I skip a year.) I recently ordered a few new pieces in the "meadow" color, which I really like. Today (yes on Sunday!!), Fedex delivered my small platter, mug, and a teacup/saucer.
@Beth Gallagher What a beautiful color. I think this is the prettiest shade they have ever put out. Do you use them on a regular basis or have a special place you keep them?
Thanks, Bess. I love this color, too... it has a vintage vibe. We use Fiestaware every day; it is very sturdy and all the colors are cheerful. My cabinets are on overload so I don't buy full place settings anymore; I usually just buy a teacup/saucer or mug in a new color. I might "have to" buy a few more pieces in this color.
It doesn't matter WHAT I buy, just so I buy it from AMAZON ! I want to add to Jeff Bezos' net worth of over $160 Billion...the richest mother fletcher on Earth! Hal
FIESTAWARE's color of Red-Orange, which they produced from 1936 to 1943, was radioactive. Look it up! The US Government, which was deep into the development of the Atomic Bomb at the time, (the Manhattan Project), had the West Virginia factory banned from producing their dinnerware in the red-orange color, because Uranium was in the pigment that created this color. The color was re-introduced in 1959. Hal
Well, you probably know that anyone who is a serious collector (of anything) usually studies up on the history of whatever it is. I have some very old pieces of Fiesta that I scrounged at flea markets and Ebay, but none of my collection is radioactive. There are websites and Facebook groups dedicated to Fiestaware.
@Beth Gallagher My wife years back avidly collected Anchor Hocking and Corning Corelle, in the limited-edition, very pretty and off-standard designs they put out at specials now and then. 'Course, the really scarce ones you only ogled, never cooked with them! This stuff early-on was touted as "Pyro-ceram", man-made ceramic, near-indestructible by heat, cold, or cooking, and it surely WAS innovative. Plate dropped to a concrete floor was apt to only bounce harmlessly, or shatter into long shards, at it's own will. But, no retail buyer, every garage sale sign proclaimed "you must stop to look". Some of her rarest pieces she obtained in that way, from folks uncaring about "collector-value". Frank