Fiestaware - Page 5

Food Network Fan · 09-06-2008, 08:09 PM

They aren't doing so well tonight in football.

Marshall or WVU.

MiseEnPlace · 09-07-2008, 04:39 PM

Here's my new oval bowl. Yesterday when I was shopping I kept thinking how perfect this bowl would be for this type of chili I make. It's a copy from Petro's Chili in Knoxville, TN. They serve a thick bean chili on top of Fritos and then you put tomatoes, onions, cheese, sour cream and jalapeños. This is before I tacked on the sour cream

Food Network Fan · 09-07-2008, 04:43 PM

Very nice. I love the shamrock color. It's like putting everything on a fresh green leaf!

MiseEnPlace · 09-07-2008, 04:48 PM

I love green. And the Shamrock immediately had me

And it is great for the food pix because it does look so fresh

I like the darker greens too, evergreen and juniper. I just like green

Pluff Mudder · 09-07-2008, 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiseEnPlace

Here's my new oval bowl. Yesterday when I was shopping I kept thinking how perfect this bowl would be for this type of chili I make. It's a copy from Petro's Chili in Knoxville, TN. They serve a thick bean chili on top of Fritos and then you put tomatoes, onions, cheese, sour cream and jalapeños. This is before I tacked on the sour cream

Wasn't looking too much at the bowl, for my eyes went straight to what is in the bowl!

MiseEnPlace · 09-08-2008, 04:44 PM

You're too funny, Pluff

MiseEnPlace · 09-08-2008, 04:47 PM

Darn, I forgot why I came in this post

A friend sent me this link to a knitted Feistaware pattern. Its cute

but I haven't bought it.

Fiesta Tea Set | Knitting Daily Online Store Project

Food Network Fan · 09-08-2008, 05:21 PM

I never learned to knit. I can do some very basic crochet, but not enough to really do anything with. My grandmother was really good at both.

MiseEnPlace · 09-08-2008, 05:48 PM

I'm still on the novice level. I started knitting again after a friend (the one who sent me the link) wanted to learn. That was last fall. I don't have a lot of time to do projects and get better. I learned knitting back in middle school... dork me wanted to learn it for some reason. My grandma did crochet. She taught me the chain stitch when I was really little. I helped her make a round rug once.

MiseEnPlace · 10-21-2008, 03:43 PM

New color!!!
Chocolate

I love it!

Quote:

FIESTA® SATISFIES CRAVING WITH NEW DECADENT DINNERWARE

“Chocolate” is introduced at New York Tabletop Market, 41 Madison Avenue, Floor 16

Newell, W.Va.—(October 6, 2008)—The Homer Laughlin China Company™ introduces Chocolate FIESTA to its existing offering of 14 contemporary colors. The new neutral offers yet another colorful story to everyday dinnerware décor; Chocolate FIESTA can be used as a stand-alone statement with individual decadent place settings, or as an accent with like neutral Ivory or cool blues: Cobalt, Peacock and Turquoise.

“We’ve received an overwhelming response to the upcoming launch,” says Rich Brinkman, FIESTA Dinnerware. Homer Laughlin will officially unveil the cocoa-inspired color at New York Tabletop Market, 41 Madison Avenue, Wednesday, October 22 thru Friday, October 24. FIESTA’s showroom is on the 16^th floor.

Simply delicious, Chocolate joins Black, White, Ivory, Cinnabar, Cobalt, Turquoise, Sunflower, Plum, Scarlet, Shamrock, Tangerine, Peacock, Evergreen and Heather bringing the FIESTA color count to 15, despite Homer Laughlin’s commitment to a 14 shade palette—each year introducing a new hue and retiring another.

“After an enormous number of requests for a dark brown and a need for another strong earth tone,” says Brinkman, “we decided to introduce a limited item color to accompany Ivory and give consumers additional fashion forward color options just in time for holiday shopping.”

Chocolate continues to prove its staying power both on and off the runway—dubbed the “new black” year after year. “It’s a very youthful color trend that has made its way from apparel into the home and onto the tabletop,” says Brinkman—addressing a growing number of consumers shopping for everyday tableware.

Chocolate concoctions range from Ivory and Tangerine sprinkled with Chocolate pieces for festive fall settings, to the more ‘mod’ with bright White layered with lots and lots of Chocolate and hints of Shamrock.
“You can also spice it up with Tangerine, Sunflower and Shamrock, or go formal with Black,” says Brinkman.

Unlike its 14 companion colors, Chocolate FIESTA will be offered in four and five piece place settings, along with select shapes deemed “best sellers”. “We’re focusing on our most popular items in this new color,” Brinkman says, “because this is truly an accent color, not what we consider a ‘core driver’ like Scarlet, Sunflower and Cobalt,”—all top selling shades in the existing lineup.

Select Chocolate shapes include: the traditional size Mug and oversized Java version, Oval Platter, Fruit and various size Bowls, Mugs, Luncheon, Salad and Dinner Plates, large and small Disc Pitchers, Salt and Pepper Shakers, Individual Oval Casserole, and Gusto Bowl.

Limited in items, Chocolate FIESTA will also be limited in its availability.

No exact date has been set for its retirement according to Brinkman; however, he encourages consumers and collectors to “eat it up.”
Look for Chocolate FIESTA in stores and online as early as November 17.