February 27, 2007

Oh ye of little faith. We would not cover up the fiestaware with non-glassed doors! There's definitely glass in the to-be-designed doors. And lights in the cupboards.

I didn't buy all that stuff just so I could hide it!

Some responses to your queries:

Jack does not like color in his servingware, Sam he is. Says it takes away from the "work" (ie: food).

You tell Jack that the colors totally show off the work. Can you imagine a red bowl full of green guacamole? Or a pretty yellow frosted cupcake on a pink dish? Sometimes it just kills me to see how fantastic the food looks next to a dish of a particular color!

Also if you were me, you would be always leaving the cabinet doors open and then hitting your head on them.

My husband, the Short Bus Genius, has purchased all self-closing drawer and cupboard doohickeys thereby disallowing me to leave drawers and doors open ever again. Also, with these self-closing doohickeys, it is impossible to slam them and show my spouse how angry I am at that given moment. Thus causing me to run over to the back door and slam it, just so he can know how mad I am!

Is it the "ancient" stuff or the "current" stuff? I thought I read somewhere that you have to be careful with the originals as some of the colors have lead in them?

I have only a few pieces of "vintage" fiestaware that are for show only. The vintage stuff does have lead in it so I only use the current stuff to eat off of.

How long have you been collecting?

I started collecting about two years after we moved into this house. So that'd be about 9 years of collecting. Which seems to be a very short time to have such a large collection. But I am the last in my family to collect it, as my sister and sisters-in-law were collecting it before me. Causing them to get very excited and give me fiestaware for every gift-giving occasion. And don't forget, we gals road trip as often as we can to the Red Wing Pottery salesroom in Red Wing, Minnesota, for discount deals on fiestaware. The collection you see in the previous entry's photos are but a fraction of what I have. It's almost embarrassing, how much I own.

But hey, at least it's a practical collectible!

"let's barbeque and eat on paper plates..."

We never, ever use paper plates here. Well, sometimes at Christmas because there's more people than dishes, so then I'll pull out the paper plates. Also know that we use cloth napkins. Only. I can't stand paper napkins and am always very disappointed when I'm at someone else's house and they make me use paper napkins. (I often give cloth napkins as a hostess gift).

That Thor, he does good work!takes awhile, but worth it.

Amen. I say that alot!

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