I bought ten of them.
Friday morning I cleared this cabinet.
This would be the baking cabinet. Measuring cups, vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, three sets of mixing bowls, miniature tart pans, vanilla bean, candied ginger, twee sets of miniature cookie cutters, soufflé cups, sprinkles, umpteen sets of tart pans that I rarely use yet can’t get rid of – they’re so pretty, sprinkles, cupcake holders, sprinkles, cupcake holders, eight springform pans, sprinkles.
A closeup of the insanity.
Makes you twitch, doesn't it, all the stuff piled in there jumbled together?
I pulled everything out.
That is a heckuva lot of stuff. All of it wouldn’t fit in the picture, I’m saying.
I got rid of very little. Nothing, actually, now that I think of it. I found a box of cookie stamps from Williams-Sonoma. They’re for pressing holiday patterns – a gingerbread man, bell, holly – into shortbread. At some point I apparently found them necessary for life and bought them. I’m at least 99% positive I’ve never used them, ever, which means I’ve packed them up and moved them probably four times. Maybe this year, right?
I did what the perky, bright-eyed experts on HGTV do when they show up at someone’s house to organize: I sorted and grouped like items together.
I had a box for fall/Halloween/harvest and a box for everyday/birthday/holidays. A box of baking chocolates, a box of baking spices. Everything fit.
Ahh. Order.
Sweet, sweet order.
This makes me uncommonly happy.
It’s a good thing I didn’t get my label maker involved; that may have tipped me right over into giddy hysteria.
10 comments:
LOL--it looks all organized alright, but I bet you get tired of opening that bin every time you want some celery seed! I kid. I'm clearly suffering the pangs of envy. Wanna come visit me?
I just did the exact same thing in my utility closet. Now I leave to door open so I can admire it every time I walk by!
Here's my solution to jumbled cupboards. It is even cheaper than $1.19 AND requires precious little work. Are you ready???
Here it is: CLOSE THE CUPBOARD DOORS.
Lovely. Poirot would approve of that much order.
Cleaning a cabinet, a closet, a room---neatening and straightening, stacking books and getting ORDER under the roof---that makes you feel like you're pretty neat, yourself.
There's a spring to the step as you walk through, as you survey the tidy landscape, and you find yourself humming, appreciating, and trying to KEEP things that way.
Especially in the kitchen---clear, neat counters, sani-scrubbed, with the doors all caressed with a coat of Old English; the stove shining and each burner cupped smooth and empty---all that makes me want to put on the prettiest apron, set out and keep an uncluttered mise, and wonder enviously if this is the feeling Martha Stewart has EVERY DAY in all her rigorously-tidy houses.
The chopping and the stirring, the spoon laid just so in the little holder, the moving about with clear countertops and an empty sink---those are delightful and I think it's the rarity, as well, which adds to their charm.
At least, in my kitchen.
I congratulate you on yours. Much happy baking!!
sometimes it is a little scary how easily I have "giddy hysteria"
I'm with Mental P Mama on the opening the differnt bins on the not appropriate day, but then I am easily distracted. And I love Martha stewart. I've broken up wiht her and always come back. And I've suspected this about your nature the way you group your magazines. Like MpM, I'm envious, make that admiring.
I really like that idea. I am going to try that.
That is beautiful! How many times have you opened the cabinet doors just to admire your work? Or am I the only one who would do that?
So funny – I'm doing exactly the same thing right now. Dragging everything out of the cabinets and reorganizing.
It's just a good thing I don't live near a Container Store. When Oprah shows her favorite things from the Container Store, it's the only time I get jealous of the studio audience.
Their ads are organizational porn.
I got a label-maker as a wedding gift. Oh, you have no idea ...
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