Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Progress

I think that this post pressure thing might work (see To do's).   On Sunday morning, while the house was still quiet, I made myself a nice cup of coffee and got to work on my spice cabinet.  Stage one, take everything out of the cabinet and clutter up the counter top.  This is where the blog pressure kicked in, because I saw all of this crap and I just did not want to deal.


Deep breath.  I threw out everything expired and made two lists: have and need.  The need is especially important with the Christmas Season almost upon us.  It is Weihnachtsmarkt time and every respectable one will have a spice stand.   Anyway... I moved one shelf up and  replaced my regular turn table with a two-tiered version (by the way the old turntable has found a home and I will do a post about it soon). This is how the cabinet looks now.



A bit of an improvement, I think. Now I just have find some more cohesive containers to make it look a little less all over the place.  I am thinking of picking up the DROPPAR spice jars  from IKEA.  As you might be able to see (my apologies for picture quality) I have a RATIONELL VARIERA spice rack mounted on the door, but I think I will just keep it to one and will eventually keep my six most used spices in them.  On to the next.

6 comments:

  1. It looks great..good for you getting it all done! Have a great week.

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  2. Looks awesome... I'm so glad the blogger peer pressure system is working correctly ;o)
    Can I just say that the photograph of the market in Jena on the wiki link is utterly beautiful... I want to go to there... [in joke from 30 Rock, just in case you thought my grammer had suddenly taken a turn].
    My husband got very nostalgic looking at the photo.. he lived in Zweibrucken and Lahr as a kid [his dad was in the Canadian Airforce]... and his mum used to go to the christmas market in Nuremburg.
    I really like the IKEA jars.. you'll need a label maker next. Put it on your christmas list. ;o)
    Jo xx

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  3. Hi Jo - I use to go to the Canadian PX/BX every once in awhile (many, many Moons ago) with my parents. Forgot which one though.
    We will head up to the Frankfurter Weihnachtsmarkt one of the next weekends and will definitely post about it.
    I was pretty ambitious about labeling the jars and bought a glass marker in white. Haven't quite "found" the right handwriting yet...

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  4. Ooh I'm looking forward to that post already.
    Jo xx

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  5. I so need to follow you for inspiration on how to declutter!

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  6. Great job! Hope you show us all the yummy deserts you're making with those spices!

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