Who collects colored glass besides me?

[journey11]

Nothing fancy, but I collect any cobalt blue colored glass I come across and display it in my kitchen window. Just makes me happy to look at it, my favorite color.

I spent a couple of years on eBay helping my MIL complete her Fenton Silvercrest collection. She is a bit of a hoarder and is trying to clean out, so now she has decided she may part with it. She also collects pink depression glass pieces. She has a really cute pink depression children's tea set. My uncle built a custom shelf cabinet for her to display it on, child-size of course.

 

[valley ranch]

Quote: Was the light in chapel originally gas ?

Yes, I believe so, but it was wired when I first came across it. There are two of them. I needed, wanted a proper light fixture for the chapel, I found this in My, our storage building, here on the property. I had never seen it before, I don't remember finding or buying them.

Wifey thinks I must have picked them up and forgot. I don't know, but, it fit the chapel just a just!

 

[valley ranch]

Remember these?

 

[aftermidnight]

Ahhhh, speaking of cobalt blue, I it. Lots of it in the kitchen. My everyday coffee mugs are cobalt blue, the chargers (big plates) behind my canister sets, a couple of cobalt blue mugs we use for soup, and other cobalt blue stuff in the kitchen, even the oven in the last electric range was cobalt blue



Took these pictures the last time did a little reno, even the kitchen floor was painted cobalt blue before we tiled it .


Annette

 

[ninnymary]

Annette, we have those same cabinets and hardware at our cabin! Except I painted them gray. They look good and able to hide dust and dirt better than white. Though I do love white cabinets.

Mary

 

[aftermidnight]

@ninnymary , the cabinets look white in the picture but they are a light grey, we built them ourselves after we built and added two rooms on our little 5 room house, a new kitchen and another bedroom. Working on a shoestring budget at the time, house payment, car payment, 3 kids in elementary school and a stay at home mom.
The walls in the new kitchen were and still are that photographed wallboard, only painted now. The kitchen became our dining room, we knocked out part of a wall in the now dining room so there is more of an open concept feeling between it and the living room. When we tiled most of the house in 2009 the tiling cost an much as this little house cost us back in 65 .

You should have seen the inside of this place when we bought it, but what do you expect for $8,900. It was a bit of a wreck but I thought we could fix it up, it sure as heck couldn't look any worse. Over the years I did a bit of remodeling, ripping out walls and plastering while hubby was at work (no there's no supper on the table, it's takeout tonight honey, I'm to busy to cook. she says as she's either covered in paint or plaster or in the middle of pulling down another wall.) Not everybody's cup of tea but I don't think it looks too shabby now, all done on a shoestring budget a bit at a time.

Looking from the dining room ..........Looking from the dining room into the living room.
into the kitchen.


Different views in the dining room, used to be the kitchen.




Our small living room, I have a side board behind the couch now.

We've since put bi-fold louvered doors between the living room and dining room, which I find handy to keep closed at times, keeps the cat hair off the cushions, especially if we are expecting company. God forgive they might be wearing black.
The bedrooms still have to be redone, that might be left to someone else tho as I seem to be running out of steam .

Ummmm, I think I have just hijacked my own thread . I took these pictures to send to my sister-in-law back east just to show it does look a little different then when they saw it, I wish I had some before pictures but didn't think to take any.

Annette

 

[valley ranch]

We've so many things that qualify I can see from where I sit. We have just had a visitor from the UK, there's a bottle of BOMBAY SAPPHIRE EAST~it's a Gin and comes in a Cobalt Blue bottle. The bottle has nothing but a drop or two inside, but the it looks to good to through out.

 

[Nyboy]

LOL I have a empty cobalt Sky vodka waiting for friend who has a bottle tree . I see the old eye wash cups at lots of flea markets. Funny once at a antique show, dealer had old glass cobalt vicks bottle for sale. I found the same bottle in my grandmothers bathroom cabinets

 

[Nyboy]

Annette I love your home !! What are the floor tile made of ?

 

[aftermidnight]

@Nyboy the floor tiles are ceramic. here's a picture of the kitchen floor just finished and wiped down. My tile man asked if I wanted a contrasting grout, I asked for one the closest he had to dirt .


Most of the walls in the old part of the house are lath and plaster, they were in bad shape when we moved in. Lots of gouges and cracks, the quick fix and it has worked so far was I filled the holes and taped the cracks, then a thin coat of Spackle over the lot. I rolled a rough texture into the Spackle, hides a multitude of sins .

All the walls in the pictures are painted an off white grey, the kitchen cupboards one shade darker. Even the fireplace is painted the same color as the walls, it used to be pink roman tile which I hated with a passion, same with the paneled wall behind the fireplace. We have 9 ft. ceilings in the old part of the house, the previous owner had the fireplace put in and had then paneled that wall, not only did I intensely dislike the color, they were 8ft. panels with a 1 ft. piece crudely added at the bottom.
One night after listening to my whining about how much I hated them hubby made the mistake of telling me that the panels would come off quite easily when the time comes, much to his and DS#2's shock 10 minutes later they were off, I managed to get my fingers behind one and ripped it off, he was right they were just tacked on. What was behind them was a nightmare but I soon fixed that with my handy dany bucket of Spackle. We don't have a fancy place and the floors still slope, but we call it home.

Back to colored glass, cobalt blue in particular. I found these pictures on the internet when looking for ideas for a bottle tree. There's some very talented people out there


Food for thought.


Annette