What I have wanted to post about for the last few weeks is this little box, which I commandeered after the move to be my new aromatherapy kit which would house a majority of my essential oils.
The problem is that the bottles are a bit too tall and the tray which fits into the box on top of the other bottles (which is super practical) won’t allow the lid to close with that wooden “pocket” in the lid. So being the destructive person that I am, I figured no biggie, I’ll just tear that thing outta there. And I got exactly this far…
Which unfortunately isn’t nearly far enough. The front of the “pocket” was somewhat easy to remove once you got past the splintering of the wood. But the side braces are glued in tight. So I either have to take a flat screwdriver to it all and hope I don’t destroy everything — or find some genius way to break down the wood glue. So if you have a smart solution (I haven’t Googled anything yet), do share!
To otherwise keep myself amused and keep the intentional living balls rolling, I finally decided to open the rack I bought to organize the lids of our pots and pans. I was having some doubts about it fitting in the shelf, and thought I might need to wait until we do something else with at least some of the pans. In the meantime, the lids have just been piled on top of each other haphazardly. It kept them accessible, but almost made it almost a game to get the one you needed without knocking the others down. 😉
So I bought this little gizmo at IKEA at least 2 months ago (because that’s the last time we were in there) and put it together (which literally took about 2 minutes) and voila! The lids are super happy in their new home and I’m super happy with how it looks on the shelf now. In fact, I manage to admire them every time I walk in the kitchen, even if I’m not intending too.
Don’t you just love it when you do something simple that you’ve meant to do forever and it turns out exactly how you hoped it would? What is wrong with us that we insist on tormenting ourselves by not just taking care of business in the first place??
That gizmo is great! I wish I had the shelf space for one. I can fit my pans and lids in one cupboard with pull-out shelves, but they’re all piled on top of each other. It’s like a puzzle to fit it all back in.
We have a couple of “towers” of pots and pans otherwise and it’s like one of those shifty puzzles when you want to use any of them since you have to take a stack of stuff off first.
That’s actually why we’re heavily considering hanging a lot of our pans since they can be stacked well but are so heavy and such a pain to lift if you want the one on the bottom…which of course you always want cause it’s on the bottom. lol
I love you wooden box. where you buy?
Not sure where one can be bought. We found it in our farmhouse which we bought several years ago in Germany. Never seen anything else quite like it.