13 - Lids and a Light

Today the chore calendar had me organizing one clutter spot. OH where to start, there are so many to choose from in my house. I also had to clean out a kitchen drawer, so while I was in there, I decided to tackle a much neglected space.....the container cabinet. This is a mysterious space where containers go and disappear to live with unmatched sock mates. They don't like the lids, so they just abandon them to the cold harsh reality of living alone, in a cabinet, with no one to cover....let's take a moment of silence for the poor lids. Yeah, that's long enough. Since we remodeled our kitchen a few years ago, well maybe more than a few....let's just say when we remodeled, this one....

was a baby. ANYWAY, since we remodeled, I haven't so much as touched this cabinet except to throw more lids in, so off to clean it I did. Here is how it started...

notice, ONE container.....MANY lids (poor lids)

many, MANY lids (poor lids)
so to put them out of their misery, I did this...

(poor lids, it was nice knowing you, the eulogy was moving)

Then I.....CLEANED.THE.CABINET.WITH.CLEANER.

After that it looked like this...

(that sound you just heard was my mother gasping and my dear grandmother rolling in her grave to see a cabinet without shelf liner. I'm a rebel, what can I say)

so pretty! Then, I went and got some brand spankin new containers with brand stinkin new lids and had a covenant marriage ceremony with them so that they would be bound together. I also discovered that I now have a place to put all my dish towels, a MUCH better place than my counter! If I were a REAL domestic goddess, I would have made, found, garage-saled a cute basket to put them in....but I'm not....I'm okay with that.....really....well, mostly. And now, NOW it looks like this...

TADA! Clutter spot done....CHECKMARK!

And because I am supposed to be having macro week, here is a shot from Girls Night last night at a fabulous little pub, McGurks...