We're still slogging through cardboard boxes, but after a week and a half in the new house, I'm thankfully past just figuring out where the beach towels get stowed. I love putting together the details that make a house a home. Now there are places for the heirloom items I saved from my grandparents' kitchen and bits found at antique stores over the years...
Here are antique cookie cutters dancing over the doorway. Like the rolling pin, most of them came from antique stores. The star in the center with the green handle, however, belonged to my great grandmother.
Over the other doorway, I hung up sets of measuring spoons that I've collected. (My first one came from my mom and once belonged to her Aunt Bessie.)
I'm not done yet. Here are some antique kitchen batter and egg tools that I haven't found the right place for. Hmmm...
My spice rack is an old Coke crate that long ago came from the general store in my grandparents' tiny hometown. (And my aunt gave me the tiny wood crate with miniature glass bottles when I was a girl.)
Vintage cookie cutters marching across the backsplash...
Fine tuning the kitchen isn't just about decorations. I set aside a whole cabinet for a favorite hobby. Ahhhh. Now when I bake, everything is right at hand.
And here's how you can tell I'm a baking geek. I temporarily took down the shelves in the cabinet and got busy with my tool box...
On big baking projects, having all my measuring spoons on rings meant running out of the size I needed and rewashing. So I took my spoons off their rings and hung them on hooks by size. (Insert amateur baker happy dance here!)
Off I go to work some more...
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