The Kitchen

Mrs. Wilt over at the Sparrows Nest has been posting on frugality(is that a word? It sounds like it should be) this past month. Part of her psots, have included photos of her Bee-yu-ti-full home, decorated frugally.
That got me thinking about decorating, and I decided to post pictures of our kitchen, the only room in our house I am particularily pleased with. I'm guesstimating it cost arounf $20 to do the whole thing.
Last year, a friend gave me some cute Martha Stewart fruit dish towels, and that got the whole ball rolling. I draped 3 of them over a curtain rod , and hung them up over the sink.
We had 2 sets of UGLY Christmas dishes, so I painted the smaller plates from 1 set silver, and the larger plates from another set white. After poking around the internet for a while, I found some cute vintage lables, printed them of, and decoupaged them onto the plates, and hung them on the soffett(?). An old coffee can, spray painted red, with another decoupaged lable serves as a baking untensil caddy. I hung up a framed set of labels, and a sweet little cutting board another friend gave me, and I was set. 'Til July. Thats when the hooks holding the large plates began breaking. Always in the middle of the night. I replaced my large plates with larger lables framed in black frames, and I'm looking for another copper gelatin mold, so I can fill in the gap between plate and frame over the sink.
Since my first go 'round, I've also added a small black lamp with a red shade (Already had both. Lamp was yellow, shade had been on a small candle holder "lamp"), the shelf between the cupboards and french doors ($2, HOME sign-$1.50 it was orange) also on the shelf, I have a neat antique iron rooster, a lanturn, and an antique harvesting machinery paperweight( this and the rooster were in our antique secretary), the chalk board(flea market last summer, $5), the black frame on the fridge is where my weekly menu goes, and you can also see our growing collection of vintage advertising magnets. The picnic basket on the hoosier holds my table cloths , a antique iron, and my stoneware bowls. Inside, I keep my cook books, Honeys art stuff, my baking dishes, and extra pads of paper.
On the second "shelf" I have a few vintage cookbooks, the candle holder lamp, (looking much happier with a coat of black paint, it was Kountry Blue), cute little canisters Honey picked out all by her cute little self for my Christmas presant, and a picture of the munchkins.
I normally have candles around too, but since we aren't getting along just now, they've been packed up until they decide not to offend me any more.
Blogger won't let me see the pictures before I post, so I'm sorry I wasn't able to go around the kitchen picture by picture, and explain things a bit better.
The pictures are also a bit out of sequence, and I didn't photo the wall opposite the sink, beacuse its just our computer. I best go now, Biscuit is carrying around the jar of peanut butter!






P.S. Blogger only fixed some of my numerous spelling mistakes, so just ignore the rest!