Blue Vintage Kitchen Cannisters

Sorry for my lack of posting lately. If you look at my profile you'll see I'm an accountant. This is the time of year that I walk around with constant black circles under my eyes. I work 3 days a week in the office and the rest of the hours I get in at home while home schooling my son. I will be leaving accounting after April 15th sometime, since my son has Aspergers and needs me 24/7.

All my projects are in slow mode until after April 15th and its killing me. I keep seeing the cutest things lately on other blogs.

Well I posted my kitchen on HGTV's rate my space and boy did I get feedback. From putting away my daily appliances, to decorating the top of my cabinets, to adding a pop of color. Their was some disagreement on the use of red, one commenter said I should and one said steer clear. My walls are grey-blue so that is the direction I am going in for my pops of color along with white.

This morning we stopped at the antique mall looking for apothecary jars and I found the cutest cannisters. They are just so me and go so well in my kitchen.



Here was my attempt to recreate these cannisters. It didn't work out so well. I will fix and finish them just not now. They are hanging out in the unfinshed project graveyard in my garage.



Here's what they looked like to begin with.

Don't you just...

hate when you see a picture of something that would be perfect for your room and its unavailable. I found a picture of these great canisters, which will bring a much needed pop of color to my kitchen but I can't find them in a store.

If anyone sees anything cute just like this or finds these canisters please leave a link in a comment.

Creative Containers - Buckhead Betties

I went to the semi-annual Creative Containers sale yesterday. It was great. William is in a charter school and we needed 5 gifts for female teachers. He has 3 regular female teachers, one office person who really helps him, and the after school teacher. We still need four male teacher gifts.

I got 6 small file boxes. These will be great for Greeting Cards. The best part is they were $5 each! I also got a monogrammed tote bag and a patterned tote bag. I would have paid over $100 retail for all of this but I paid wayyyy less!