A Happier Kitchen

After months and months of stepping over a baby gate to get into our kitchen I now love sliding back and forth over the invisible line between the un-dining room and my new favorite room in our home. Here's the kitchen setup we had before, when we were minus two cabinets thanks to all of the kitty stuff.

To make things worse, next to the litter box cabinet we had a giant kitty tree that I couldn't stand. Not exactly the best bunch of things to have in the kitchen of all places, but with a little dude wandering around, none of these things could be accessible to him. Well, this baking kick has inspired a change. Getting rid of the cats isn't an option(unless anyone wants to take them, pleeeease?) so I asked my wise-as-a-smarty-owl Momma what she would do. Her advice was to throw it all in the bathroom. Well that wasn't an option in my mind, but I got me thinking about other rooms. After hours of baby-proofing the kitchen, scrubbing and disinfecting cabinets, and confusing the cats, all of the kitty junk is situated in the hallway closet. Yeaaaa! It left a bunch of room for some awesome reorganizing. Let me introduce you to 'my' cabinet.....

It's oh so pretty in my mind. I like being able to see everything. Moving things around also reminded me that I have the Giant Cupcake Pan from Wilton, and thanks to my aunt's incredible brains, I've got a new solution to making the end result look edible instead of slathered in frosting. Perfect timing to get some extra room. My sprinkles and such cabinet is getting a bit full. I blame it on Little Bits for having too many awesome sprinkles. Along with my strong like for that place, I ventured out today with my Momma and Katie to a new place called Cakes Plus. Thank goodness I took a second look at the store reviews online because I didn't realize they were more than a bakery. That place made me so happy! I loaded up on goodies.

So many Merckens chocolates at the bottom there. And if these sprinkles here don't make you smile, please look at them again. I love the name for them too(my favorite Charlie Brown character).

Little Pigs!! No clue what I'm gonna use them for, but they were too cute to pass up. Plus Katie talked me into getting them :) Right before checking out, my two road trip buddies saw these....I snagged the green and pink one, and I know it'll fit perfectly in my growing cupcake collection. I've got to stop procrastinating and get that up. Hmmmm, that could be a perfect project for my next Cupcake Saturday post. Thanks for checking out my craziness! Have an amazing day!