fiesta!

years before this whole VISTA adventure started, i unknowingly had major love for one of west virginia's most famous exports--fiestaware! created by the homer laughlin china company, fiesta hails from newell, wv--at the very tiptop of the northern panhandle. any further north and you'd be in ohio or pennsylvania!

apparently i was always telling my mom that WHEN I WAS AN ADULT i would have a house full of fiesta. well, bless her heart, mom took it upon herself to start my collection early--but i didn't have a reason to use it until recently. life has gotten measurably better since then, i tell ya.

2011 is fiesta's 75th anniversary, and the special edition color? a rather mountaineer-ish shade of gold, though they prefer to call it marigold.