The games you play

Every real card player needs (60's) drink glasses and an ashtray with playing card motives.

How would I get better service?

We collect metal trays. Usually the ones we buy feature whiskey, gin or other alcoholic beverages. For some reason we also bought one big tray with colourful flowers. It is a beauty, isn't it? The English really know their trays. I just have to be careful as we don't have much room for the bigger trays and there are a lot more of these flower trays around than there are of alcohol advert trays...

Take a break

We bought "new" cognac glasses today. The glasses are really small...I guess people drunk a lot less in the 50's than today. Well, the smaller glasses are just perfect for coffee parties as even a small bottle will be enough for several glasses...

Putting the thinking cap on

Come Christmas and my old glass bottles got new caps and now they look a lot like caraffes. The golden glass bubbles fit right in.

There is method in madness

We found a "new" metal tray last weekend. The jug with the same label we found a while ago. And as we happen to know one of the Dewars, its fun to have both the jug and the tray.

It was cheap!

The old tv/radio stand was in a rather bad condition when we bought it. I changed the top to a tray till we decide how to repair the original top. The legs will get a new coat of paint (someday). For now I am happy enough to have the thing in the kitchen.

All I need

The shop museum is bursting at the seams and things don't look much better in the living room. I desperately need more shelves as less stuff is not an option.

Serves you right

I love old trays but usually the really old and big ones are out of my price range. Luckily I found this huge metal tray in Porvoo rather cheaply. I guess it is from the 30's or even older.

Keeping your cool

There were about 60 yard sales in Porvoo yesterday and we visited most of them. One of our finds was this cool ice bucket from the 50's. It is made by Plas-Tex USA. After surfing the net a bit we found an ad of the bucket in 1957 Life magazine and our guess about the age of the thing was confirmed.

More of the same?

The trouble with collecting is that you'd like to show off the collection but there never seems to be enough room on the shelves or cabinets. Some of our (newest) whiskey jugs are now in the hall, on the side table. It might not be the best of places for bar accessories but there is no room elsewhere.

Drink up

One more, once more - there seems to be a never ending supply of old trays with booze ads in flea markets and we are always happy to buy them all (providing they don't cost too much). I have never heard of Macnish Whisky but the tray looks good enough for our collection.

Who grants you a good time?

You'll get one guess :)

Iittala's (Tapio Wirkkala's) Gaissa glasses we have had for ages but the tray is "new".

And I don't even like whisky

As it happens we have collected bar assecories and a lot of them are about whisky. Well, maybe one day I just have to drink a glass to celebrate our collection. On the other hand I could have a sip of gin instead, we have gin jugs and trays, too.

As back when

Drinks anyone? We have been collecting trays, ice cube holders etc for some time now. The two carafes we got from my aunt. A couple of stars make the scene Christmassy.