I have a thing for order and containing. I even have a thing for recontaining objects. Sometimes what they come in just isn’t pretty enough for me. Maybe I’m a control freak, but I live in 860 square feet. Dropping your scivvies on the floor can downward spiral the whole system.
Some examples:
Syrup bought at Costco in a jug can be poured by a six year old at a 5 parts syrup/one pancake ratio, so best to find a smaller container.
Not into pancakes? No problem. We’ve got you covered at this house with some cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on your french toast? Let Little Bear do it. I use a funnel to fill him. He was one of a set of salt and pepper shakers on sale at Anthropologie. Gave the other to a friend.
Couldn’t pass up the egg cup on the Easter sale table. Now toothpicks for checking the muffins are right there and sure cute.
I channeled Gollum, muttering, “My Precious.” when I saw these in a magazine. Perfect graphic to go with my Fiesta.
Then there’s kid room containment, this is never ending. I like tins.
Trust me, if I could cut that globe in half and put something in it I would.
Scraps live in these.
Then there’s DOUBLE Containment, or contained and then contained again.
This is big in the Livudio (studio/living room) because we are trying to make one room function as two with harmony.
Bathroom gets the containers contained with trays. Think I went a little crazy for Orla Kiely? I did.
The bedroom also contains the home office within a secretary desk.
And the ultimate reuse of containers…
eggshells and those cute Easter Egg containers you thought had no use after Easter. Plant yourself some seeds, water and cover with plastic wrap until they sprout in your sunny window. Then just plunk the eggshell and all in the garden.
Now my whole point of this container rant is…I made a container using this pattern and it turned out fabulous.
I made some interfacing changes and I messed up on the directional cutting of the outside, but it looks awesome.
Love Factory Girl fabric. It’s freaky weird.
Do you contain?
and thanks for all the hst love on yesterday’s post, I feel the same!
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I particularly like the egg-shells as decomposing-seedling pots. So clever!
stole it.
I do contain, perhaps to excess. On my shopping list right now: a box or basket to contain all the little boxes that contain all my pins in the sewing room. Containing is even more fun with a label-maker, BTW.
do you have a container for the label- maker? hee hee.
I’m obsessed with her patterns – and yes, I love containing things 🙂
860 SF actually sounds pretty lovely, less to clean up! 🙂 awesome containers. I need to get more!
I love containing. I love Fiesta. Wow all those Orla Kiely’s are phenomenal. Oh….decluttering and THEN containing rocks my world!
I do love containing, but my true passion is…wait for it…cleaning products. I have a love affair with anything Mrs. Murphy’s. And I love me a great big scrubby sponge. Sometimes, when no one is looking, I open the Mrs. Murphy’s counter spray and just sniff it. I’m partial to the lemon verbena. It makes me sublimely happy.
Great post.
I TRY to contain. But it still overwhelms me!
I love the fiesta stuff, and your canisters are the bomb!
But the best part was finding out you are only too human by making that directional change too soon!
glen: who has been known to carry a purse with the dogs going upside down………
That was fun! I love containing things…but I have a thing with making sure I get the most perfect containers so I don’t have to buy better ones later. I obsess over it…
We had a small apartment once and we kept our kayaks under the dining room table! 😀 Of course being 13′ long, half fit under and the other half jutted out into the living room. 😀 I was so happy there…
That’s funny!
I like that the opposing directions of the fabric. I fact, I would have done it that way on purpose. Love all the containers. My first appartment was 450 sq ft, and you have to hide things in every nook and cranny!