Over the past month I’ve made a few fun additions to my kitchen and in the spirit of Pee-Wee Herman please meet “Shelfy! Unfortunately this shelf doesn’t chat with me and give sage advice but it does help immensely with the serious kitchen cabinet overload I’d been experiencing. Initially I thought I wanted a more traditional baker’s rack, but after searching around I couldn’t find one that didn’t seen horribly old fashioned. Then CK and I went to Ikea, or as my friend Julia refers to it “Disneyland for Grown-ups.” At Ikea I wrote down and crossed out literally six different shelving units until we got to the very end of the store and I saw this system: The Omar. For once in my life I found exactly what I wanted and it was *gasp* the cheapest one. So I ended up happy, the cupboards are a little less cluttered, and CK didn’t have to take out a personal loan to buy me a baker’s rack.
Last week I was determined to win Jenny Frazier’s cryptic typography based contest that she hosted at her blog All Eyes on Jenny. So I put my Nancy Drew thinking cap on and broke out my mad “googling” skills. The first day of the contest honestly left me clueless, but than Jenny started to reveal little clues and I finally figured out what the answer was. Last night my pretty pretty prize was waiting for me when I got home and it was promptly hung on the wall in my kitchen, just high enough above my pink KitchenAid so that it doesn’t end up covered in cake batter. Obviously all of the blogging in this household happens in the kitchen, even Chris sits at the dining room table to work. So much for that spare room we made into an office…
