Just Call Me Ignatius

Oh my goodness, it’s AMAZING to be able to breathe out of my nose again! You don’t realize how much you like doing it until you can’t for a week. Now that I’m no longer a hideous mouth-breather, I can properly talk about my lovely 28th birthday (which this year also happened to be Easter). I got some wonderful gifts. 

From my awesome fiancé I got a beautiful set of vintage pink pyrex mixing bowls, some really neat books (including my new favourite book Confederacy of Dunces), and perhaps best of all, www.thimblethief.com now belongs to me! Yep, that’s right, I own part of the internet. 

From my parents I got a bunch of quilting books (did I mention I’m really into making a quilt right now?) and…A SEWING MACHINE! Ahhhhh! Right now it’s sitting in my foyer in its case looking intimidating (I think it tried to spit a bobbin at me) but Mommy promises to give me some lessons. It has the whole alphabet on it, which means you can sew swear words into quilts. I can’t wait to sew on it! Being 28 is pretty great.

Vintage Pyrex

Our latest passion at the Thimble Thief household is vintage Pyrex. Years ago I inherited a Pyrex bowl set from an Aunt, I remember liking the bright colours but other than that gave it little thought. Then I saw (on pinterest of course) a whole wall of pink Pyrex and fell irrevocably in love. 

Because my fiancé is perfect, he came with me on the hunt for more pieces at some local thrift shops. As Matt posted on facebook “I figure if Gracie wants to collect something that's actually useful, I need to get on board.” As soon as we ran into a man who clearly wanted the blue bowl I’d just picked-up, I think my sweetie was hooked. 

Now we’ve spent the last couple weekends looking for new pieces to add to our rapidly growing collection. My favourite is when we find a piece for $3.00 at a thrift shop that an hour before we saw for $30.00 at an antique market. Sigh, it’s lovely to be newly smitten with something!