Happy Earth Day!

A mini pack
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Well, actually, I baked these pumpkin-carrot cupcakes for my parents' birthdays. But today I also want to acknowledge our beautiful and wonderful Mother Earth for sustaining us.

The brown 1970s Pyrex dish represents the earth's soil and the mini pansy flowers (also known as Johnny Jump Ups) were grown in my garden in my veggie patch, especially for eating. I love how the colors all go so well together.

Thank you Mother Earth for bringing me the wonderful ingredients that allowed me to make these yummy birthday cupcakes.

Pyrex shelf

Pyrex shelf 2 of 2
Originally uploaded by love_yellow

OK, this is embarrassing... that I would share a photo to the world, of a shelf in my cupboard that shows my ridiculous collection of vintage Pyrex, neatly stacked and color coordinated (sort of). Oh and also some vintage Corning Ware.

NO, I don't have a collecting disease (or maybe I do but I'm just in denial)... it's just that these colors and patterns are so pretty and happy and they were produced in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Isn't it cool that they made these kitchen wares with fun designs way back then?

YES, I do use some of them, but to be honest, it's kind of hard to use all of them.

So what do I do? Should I just keep the ones I'm using and get rid of the rest? What to do... with all my crap.

How it started

This is the piece that started the vintage Pyrex obsession... the 4-quart casserole, pattern called Butterfly Gold, that was sitting in the cupboards in my parents' garage.

I was helping my Mom clean out and came across 3 of these puppies in different patterns... mint, with lids. My Mom was apparently saving them for me and my 2 sisters so I ended up with this pattern. She bought them ~30 years prior and just never used them.

I remembered as a kid we used various Pyrex and Corelle dishes and found those hidden in boxes in the garage and took them home. From that point I started a little obsession of collecting a few more pieces and a year later, I ended up with more than 50 pieces - yikes! All this crap I don't have room to store and there's no way I could use every single piece. So now I'm on a mission to use them all to justify the collection. What I don't end up using will have to be gifted, sold or donated... it's really silly to have crap that just sits in boxes in the garage.