upgrade

I spent some time yesterday and today working on my blog and upgrading it.  You can call it "Being Rachy Blog 2.0."  I want to start blogging more anyway.

Let me know what ya think of the changes!

vintage pyrex

Recently I've gotten interested in collecting vintage pyrex dishes.  This is actually a quite practical hobby because I use these pyrex dishes as servingware and as prep bowls when I'm cooking.  The nice thing about pyrex is they are very durable dishes.  It's also made thrift shopping fun when you're looking for these pyrex treasures.  Here's my collection so far:

My mama found this one for me.  It's brown with a gold pattern.

It' like a mini casserole dish.

These are some of my favorite dishes. I love the blue print.  Both of these dishes together were $3.   

This mixing bowl might be my favorite right now.  It's light blue with a white pattern. I struck GOLD when I found this one because bowls this cute are rare to find.  I found this one at a thrift store for $3.

I've used this bowl several times to serve dinner.

Mugs!  Aren't they cute?

This bowl is quite beat up but the orange and red pattern is so cute!

I actually inherited this set from my mother years ago.  I didn't even realize these dishes were pyrex until I started looking for more pyrex dishes and looked at these in the cupboard and saw PYREX on the bottom of the dishes!

cleaning the fridge

I've been inspired to do various sorts of cleaning, organizing and crafting projects thanks to Pinterest.  Yesterday I deep cleaned our refrigerator.  They are really dirtier than they seem!

I took out ALL of the shelves and compartments, filled the tub with hot water and dish soap and vinegar, and soaked all the compartments in it for a while.  I also soaked our trash can to clean it too.  It works REALLY well.  While the shelves and compartments were soaking I wiped down the fridge.  Then I dried off the shelves and compartments and put them back in place.  I bought some storage baskets to organize the food.  I have one basket for all our cheese!  Another for our creams, one for our meats, and two more for fruits and veggies.

new furniture: moved in!

We got our new furniture this past Friday which was great because we had all weekend to rearrange our apartment. So how did we moved things around in our apartment?

1. First we had to move the old furniture. Where did we move it? The two pieces of furniture that left our living room was our southwestern patterned sofa sleeper and our little gold recliner. We moved these two pieces of furniture up into our spare bedroom. We did this for several reasons: (1) if guests stay they can have their own room to sleep in, (2) so add extra sitting upstairs so that if one of us is on the computer doing work then the other can sit in the room also working on something else, and (3) when we host homegroup and split into lifegroups we have a bunch of seating in our spare bedroom for a lifegroup to go. So we moved the old furniture up to the spare bedroom. Once the sofa sleeper and recliner was in the spare bedroom we were able to hang things on the wall. I'd say that our spare bedroom is very cluttered and decorated in a cluttered way. But I like it :)

2. The new furniture came in! Once it did we had to recentered the canvas and sconces.