New Treasures & Clothes Pins

When I arrived up in the metroplex last weekend, Jennifer had been garage-sale shopping while waiting for me.  She found several great treasures for me :

 

Love them both!!

Then she also got this too:

Can you see a theme forming?  Yes, chickens – with the chickens multiplying around here, I decided it was time to have some chicken stuff around the house too.  So I now have several fun chickens in our kitchen and living room!

Then I found this table at the same garage sale – perfect height for the kids to play cards on, color, or whatever they want to do.  It was $5 – can’t beat that!!

 

Then, as I posted previously, is the box I found in our home to fill a need in our kitchen!  It is about to have clipboards for each child too – with their gratitude sheet, bible reading plan, and their chore list.  I am hoping to get clutter-y paperwork off the counters and have a place for each child to keep their stuff.

Finally, while making lunch I decided to solve another “issue” I have.

You see, I have a small prep-area in my kitchen.  I kind of have 2 – but one is really where I prep for cooking.  And it is small.

 

When I am using a recipe, often I set it down and it takes up precious space, then it gets wet or oily, and the paper is messed up.  I always think how I need to hang it up – or have a nice plate holder style thing to put it in/on.  But since my budget is $0 for any updates or projects, I knew a plate holder thing was out.  So I dug out my hot glue gun, and some clothes pins.

Now, first, I must say, these clothes pins are a family treasure too.  They were handed to me after Robert’s grandmother passed away – I have the only clothes line in the family.  But I love that when I use them I think of her!

 

(I have done this previously in our house in Mansfield, but only under the sink to hold gloves or a rag, or something else)

So anyway, I picked a cabinet that I do not mind open while I am cooking and figured out where I want it.  Then I glued a few clothes pins up.

 

Make sure you will not hit your head on the open cabinet!

 

As an after thought, I decided to throw a little piece of ribbon on it for some color.

If you hang these and then change your mind, they do come off rather easy – you have to pull them, but the glue will come off.  So this does not have to be permanent.

Here is the finished product with Grammie’s Chowder recipe hanging!

I did put a few in other cabinets to put some verses, or kid colored pictures, or anything I want to hang, but rotate – so when I open a cabinet there is some sweet verse, or a pretty picture to make me smile!  I love decorating spots that we often forget to use!!