Houston 24 Expo – Peachridge “Glass in the Grass” Inside pictures

It seems like we had an even mix of folks touring the house and socializing after shopping and visiting with the glass and antique dealers outside.

Elizabeth and Lou Pellegrini hugging. That is Sadie on the floor beneath. She laid there the entire morning and didn’t move. Six other dogs were at doggie day-care, Pea was upstairs and James was roaming the property.

L-R: Lou Pellegrini (white shirt), Ken Morrill (purple), Kathie Taylor (green), Stephen Hubbell (black) Jerry Forbes (right) in the background—Helen Forbes, hidden with glimpse of Cutter and their dog from Big Sur, Dave Olson and Richard Siri.

Elizabeth has either won by raffle, auction, trade or outright thievery just about every Jim Healy FOHBC commemorative jug made each year for a national event.

Left to right. Helen Forbes and Cutter (Big Sur), Kathy Mitchell (Wisconsin) chat with Elizabeth.

Dining room windows. The only windows in the house without shelves of bottles except the kitchen.

Eyeball jug purchased at the FOHBC 2019 Augusta National and a Lanier Meaders rooster make an odd statement on a living room table.

Carved wooden southern Mexico art pieces, for the most part—more or less.

I like this picture showing silhouettes and shadows in contrast with daylight back-illuminated figural bitters. That is humidity condensation on the windows. We keep it at 69 degrees in the house.

More shadow talk.

Triangular, gutsy and robust OK Plantation Bitters. Highly ornate. A difficult color run to achieve. Two molds—tall and squat, in simplistic terms.

The rising sun casts a long shadow across the living room. An astute viewer will notice our three new Drake’s Plantation Bitters in the window so this picture was post Houston 24 Expo.

Another angle of the den bottle windows. This room was a garage that we converted when we purchased the house many years ago.

Marbles in a large carved stone bowl.

Some of my favorite figural barrel bitters in one of the living room windows.

Blue Angels doing a flyover in our Living Room fish tank.

Blue Angels stealing the show.

Cardinal Tetras. Color runs even in our fish tank in the den bottle room.

I Spy. How many glass objects are in our left Kitchen window?

Now again—in the right Kitchen window.

Master Bedroom bottles catching some sun and shadow.

Detail window in the Master Bedroom. Primarily bitters though there is a neat color run of Bunker Hill figural lighthouse pickle bottles.

Colored glass run of fish figural bitters. At one distant time, the famous cobalt blue fish bitters swam with this school. On display the following day at the opening of the American Antique Glass Masterpieces exhibition.

Toy shelf in one of the bottle rooms. Many of these are Buddy L.

Two bottle friends. Left Daniel Lakatos (aka Daniel Glass) and David Kyle Rakes from Florida. Major hobby photographer and writer we work with at Peachridge Collections.

Ferdinand and Helen Forbes headed upstairs. I get to wear my silly wide-brim garden hat (so I can be noticed-or not).

Living room shelves with an eclectic group of items.

In what we call our Victorian room on the second floor, a crowd gathers to look at three windows of figural bitters, lightning rod balls and other favorite antique glass bottles.

Various odds and ends with a color run of National Bitters (figural ear of corn) on the top shelf.

A favorite piece made by Rick Carney using skull poison bottle fragments. I call it “Through the Looking Glass.” Sitting in front of and with glass quilt-pattern lightning rod balls, figural pig bitters and glass whimsey turtles.

Queens for the dat—at least this day at Peachridge Glass. Five or six different Indian maiden molds.

Meet Izel and Juan, two carved wood stairwell figures at the Houston 24 Peachridge “Glass in the Grass” event. Photo by Angelina Pellegrini-Ott

Solid clear glass Brown’s Celebrated Indian Herb Bitters set within a wooden pedestal. Thought to be unique.

What we call the second bedroom. Primarily bitters bottles but you will see some poisons from my granddaughter Adriana in the center top window.

Bitters bottles window detail in the second bedroom.

In what we call the Aqua Room we fill the windows with primarily aquamarine bitters. The lower shelves to the right are now complete with Deco sodas that Elizabeth collects. She picked them up at Hotel ZaZa during the H24 Expo.

Aquamarine bitters in our “Aqua” room.

Colorful insulators in one of the upstairs office windows.

Carved wooden horses along a table in the upstairs office.

I commissioned Rick Carney with Sea Glass of Maine to make this cobalt Violin bottle lantern for Elizabeth. He brought it to Houston 24. The bottles are complete both outside and in. Nice job Rick! A happy wife cannot be understated. Oh… I bought the alabaster cobalt shard lamp on the left!

Dave Olson from South Carolina looking a little surprised to be captured on film!

Jeff Robertson—down from Maine. Probably a better climate for him in the cool house.

Just a neat picture showing what you can do with aquamarine bottles.

A row of Lightning fruit jars in a ceiling window on the second floor.

This is a post Houston 24 Expo photo I took of our three new Drake’s Plantation Bitters commemorative bottles. The cobalt blue example (1 of 250 hand blown at Silkwood Glass in California) were sold at Houston 24 to FOHBC members. We purchased the teal example for an outrageous price at the H24 Sunset Auction and Elizabeth won the sapphire example in the Houston 24 Hotel ZaZa raffle. They will remain the only examples blown in these colors.

Sadie pretty much stayed on the floor in this spot the entire time. We took six other dog family members to the Spa for the day or it would have beeb chaos.

Our Houston 24 Souvenir Program ad.