Sunday Gift Guide: in the kitchen
November 15th, 2009A weakness for kitchenware pervades every cell of my body. During our three years in Canada I’ve been saving change from home in a big whiskey bottle, with hopes of being able to combine it with its joint WV-branch (thanks Mom) and buy a tangerine Kitchenaid mixer when we move back – I haven’t counted in awhile but I think the big orange beauty will be mine. I dream about Fiestaware colors – chocolate, lemongrass, turquoise, and tangerine. I love to wear aprons. I love my mint-green measuring cups from the dollar store more than just about anything else in my kitchen. I am the kind of person who has kitchen gadgets that do exactly one thing. I break drinking glasses all the time and am thinking about just drinking from indestructable mason jars instead, which in and of themselves are completely aestheically pleasing.
So when I type “kitchen” into the search bar on Etsy – whether I am searching handmade or vintage, I am lost. Here are some recent favorites:
Set of four beautiful lime and chocolate pottery bowls by Karin Lorenc : $60.00
Fruity, retro apron by Sugar Pie Chic : $31.00
Eco-friendly cheese plate by d’Pholk Designs : $18.00
“Mix Until Blended” print by caged tomato : $15.00
I think I am going to slack on this coming weekend’s gift guide (haven’t I just done that for two weeks anyway?) and give you a list of eco-friendly toy companies instead of a list of Etsy treasures. My mom asked me if I could make her a list off the top of my head for her to include in a newsletter, so I will just put it here and call it my Sunday Gift Guide :) I’ve got a lot in mind, but let me know if you have anything I could add!
Listening: the blissful silence of a baby sleeping because today, for the first time in a week, our downstairs neighbors are not hammering in middle of the afternoon…. aaahhhh
(I am) Reading: the new Mothering
(Hazel is) Reading: I Love Animals
Working on: I thought I was done crafting for our pre-move-week, but then agreed to make a wholesale batch of earrings – yay / uffda!
Packing progress: packed a few boxes this morning, cleaned some furniture that is leaving us in a few hours, and am about to get back to it right now…
November 15th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I just looked at that mixer on Amazon and I am stunned that a product could come in so many colors!! I think I want persimmon. Oh, wait, I hardly ever bake. RATS! I guess my $15 hand mixer will have to do for now. (Have you seen the ratings on Amazon? 1300 people gave it 5 stars and 154 gave it 4. Nothing lower. I’m in awe.) How often would one have to make a batch of cupcakes to justify buying one of these things?? hmmmm …. aunt k.
November 15th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Impressive eh? My mom’s work has them in their chemistry labs – I think they’re pretty indestructable. I think it’s one of the few kitchen appliances I could buy these days that I will still actually be using when I am baking for my grandchildren, because it has not needed to be replaced. I’m hardcore coveting a lot of the attachments too – the grinding mill, the ice cream kit, the shredders and slicers, oh my! It’s SO much more than a mixer :)
My fund started, if you remember, as a “pistachio mixer fund”, and then Fiestaware started making brown and I just had to rethink the whole thing. I’ve spent more time pondering my kitchen colors over the past few years than I have my own mortality. :)
November 15th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
(I once polled my friends when we were out because the color scheme of the bar’s bathroom blew my mind and I wondered if it should be my kitchen – mint green, red, and brown. Coziest bathroom ever.)
November 15th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Man, now I have been browing pictures of mixers on flickr and I don’t think the tangerine is quite as bright as I thought. Maybe I should get pear instead. Crisis.
They are both 34% off! I definitely have enough at that price… :)
November 15th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
There are pictures of mixers on Flickr? wow. I’m (almost) speechless. :) aunt k.