Secret Storage

This is an old trick, but if you aren't using it, you should! On the backs of our closet doors I keep many (too many) things secretly stashed away in inexpensive shoe organizers. Mack is showing you one here. His closet's organizer is full of lotions, washcloths, nail trimmers, thermometers, etc. Other organizers stash away ribbon, paints, stamps, crayons, etc. As we all know what is out of sight is out of mind, which allows this to be an easy and inexpensive way of keeping things at your fingertips!

What's Old is New Again

Our home is getting to the point that I can actually unpack some items. We were married over three years ago, but yesterday I got to open some wedding gifts for the first time. It was pretty exciting. I'm sure a lot of you are in this same situation. Where you having beautiful gifts that were given to you, but no where to store or display them?

I need some lessons in the art of display. For the time being, our new little display case will have to tolerate my constant shuffling. I think it is important to mix things that are new with things that are old. Also mixing things that are pretty, with things that might just be pretty to you. I love that Vera Wang china shares a shelf with milk glass of my Grandmother's from the 1940's.



With the use of my "new" kitchen gadgets, I whipped up a batch of the Cake Shop's Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies (you can find this recipes and many more yummy ones in the Junior League of Tallahassee's A Thyme to Celebrate cookbook) to share with our sweet new neighbors.



The bruiser helped around the house today too. He reorganized my Tupperware cabinet, and did a little sweeping.

Sneak peek

Here is a little peek into what is going on in our kitchen.