Treasuring the Moments

Open shelving is not something I would have considered in the past but it certainly can be attractive as these pictures will show. I love the vintage look of this kitchen.  Notice the touch of color that’s added with the cups and scale. {auctiongirlvintage.typepad.com} {thekitchn} This kitchen looks cozy – warm and inviting.  Love the wood floor, too.   {d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net} {perfectly imperfect} Visit Perfectly Imperfect and you can see the before picture of Shaunna’s cabinets with the doors still on. If you need some really great tips on how to keep your open shelving always looking attractive, go to The Inspired Room and read Melissa’s post “How to have open shelving in your kitchen (without daily staging).” So what’s your opinion?  Does this make you think twice about your cupboard doors or are…

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Proverbs 6:8 6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 7Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 8Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest. Come along with me on my 31 day journey of Kitchen Inspiration for the month of October.  My past posts - 31 Days of Kitchen Inspiration.

Biscuit Mix Recipe That Stores Well A few weeks ago I shared a master biscuit mix recipe.  I talked about how I could take the master mix and multiply it till it would make enough to feed my family of 8 for 3-4 times.  I finally bought some dry milk so that I could see how it would work when making such a large quantity. You will need a large  8qt. or larger mixing bowl and a regular mixing bowl. Here is the large mixing bowl I used. (8 quarts) The smaller mixing bowl is for you to take a portion of the master mix from the large bowl and cut the butter into it.  After the butter is cut into small pieces, you will then add it to the…

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Today I’m going to show you an appliance center/pantry solution that my sister’s family came up with when moving into the 1100 sq. ft. home they remodeled. Their family really likes to cook and experiment with all things related to nourishment; so this large appliance center has been very helpful since cabinet and counter space is limited. You would think the double doors would really get in the way of things but they have not found it to be a problem. Although this is more of an appliance/work area, it does hold their flours, some grains, beans, potatoes, onions and some large cans of tomatoes.  Thus it also qualifies as a pantry. Do you have a pantry that you would like to share?  Email me at timbuck2mom…

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Ha! Me writing a post on how to organize your refrigerator?! When I told my husband what I was going to write about, he looked at me as if I had horns growing out of the top of my head or something equally strange. “I didn’t know you had any organization to your refrigerator,” he said to me.  I then proceeded to show him what organization I do have in place.  After his eyes started to glaze over, I showed mercy and told him he could go on his merry way.  Organization is not my guy’s thing. So prepare to be inspired or not, as the case may be. I don’t remove everything from my refrigerator when I clean it but this time I did.  Something had spilled…

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I have a few items that really work for me in my kitchen - 6 items that I have no regrets purchasing.  Maybe they’ll help you, too, or inspire you to something even better. #1  I like to reuse the plastic bags I get when I go shopping but where to store them? Some of the ways I have tried are: Stuffing them all into one bag and then placing the overfilled bag into any cubby I could find so they would be contained and not all fall out grocery bag holder like this one.. I didn’t have a good place to hang it and it seemed to not hold very much as well as being a bit awkward when getting a bag out but then I got this wall mount grocery bag…

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Yesterday you got to see how I restored some order back to the pantry.  I was able to make a shelf organizer for all my canned foods that is not only useful but inexpensive to boot! Here’s what the finished shelf looks like. My son, seeing this picture, said, “You’re going to post that picture?  Look at that can on top.”  Yes, I could have made this look picture perfect I suppose but hey, who’s going to have the perfect number of cans all the time(?), so I just decided to keep things real. To make your own shelf organizer so that your cans are at different heights, you will need to purchase a 2×4.  And that’s it.  You can either have your local Home Depot cut the…

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Welcome to my 31 Days of Kitchen Inspiration challenge.  I joined up with The Nester and a host of other bloggers who all chose various topics to write about for 31 days straight.  Since I really enjoy anything kitchen related, I chose that topic for my challenge. For me the pantry is one of those things that you can’t just organize once and forget about, it’s something you have to diligently oversee or it will fall into the same state of disarray that it was before.   Disorder and general untidiness wants to creep in and must be put in check regularly. Thus I decided to organize the pantry since it was starting to fall into a sad state.   Here’s some before shots. It gets worse. Have you seen enough? …

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There is a lot of discussion on whether a person should drink milk or not.  One never knows who to believe since there are so many arguments for and against but here’s one way to simplify things.  See what the Bible has to say about it. Proverbs 27:27 And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.     I guess that’s good enough for me. This verse does reference goat’s milk but if you do a search you will see where Abraham also gave the Lord cow’s milk.