My suburban life: I spent my Saturday evening reorganizing the kitchen. The way our kitchen was organized had been driving me crazy for months. There was way too much stuff crammed into each space. One drawer held every cooking utensil we owned, so you had to dig through it looking for what you wanted for what felt like ten minutes. It bothered me, but I kept putting off doing anything about it. I was inspired by some of the pictures on
Kath Eats Real Food. She showed how she organized some of the rooms in her house, starting with her
kitchen. I finally realized what I needed. Containers!! So Scott and I headed over to the Container Store Saturday afternoon and grabbed a bunch of stuff, including my favorite, a new spice rack! I have been wanting one for soo long. I modeled my drawers of cooking utensils almost exactly after Kath's pictures. You will notice some of my pictures look almost identical. I moved some stuff into the pantry and now the utensils are in two drawers instead of one, which makes a huge difference. I was so excited that I didn't think to take any before pictures, but here are some afters:
Yes, we do have a guitar-shaped spatula. You don't?
I also redid the pantry. I moved all of the spices out into my pretty new spice rack:
I added some canvas totes to contain/organize some of the contents of the pantry.
Other new things include a lazy susan and a mesh basket for hot chocolate packets. That mesh basket on the second shelf from the top is indeed full of packets of instant hot chocolate. And it is deep. Not square. We have a lot of hot chocolate.
I am so happy to have a better-organized kitchen. I also rearranged all of the lower cabinets (there are two small ones and two big ones), but those don't have cool new containers in them, so I didn't take any pictures.
After that was all done, Scott and I went out to see No Strings Attached. It was pretty good. I laughed a lot, but the ending was super corny. To be expected from a romantic comedy, I suppose.
