Playing along: "My Place & Yours - Kitchen Love"

I went for a visit to Jodie Z's blog today and fell in love with the pics she posted of her kitchen for My Place & Yours. Check it out Jodie's oh-so-cutsie-cute kitchen here:)

So I thought I would play along too. The theme this week is "Kitchen Love". So basically take photos of what you love in your kitchen and post your link here.

I adore the whole shabby chic thing that many of the girls that have already posted have got going on, but it's not my personal style as you will see. Though I do have a few quirky little pieces from my Grandmother that take pride of place. So here is a little tour of my kitchen:

The Big Picture

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I love having the outlook from the kitchen to the backyard. Makes it easy to potter about and still keep a watchful eye on the kidlets. When we were looking for a house design to build I used to joke that I wanted a "Command Centre". I think that's what I got :)


Favourite Things

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Recipe Books: Including one very full and disorganised collection of recipes, printed off from the net which I have then stuffed into the purple display folder. What can I say? It's a compustion! I should mention that there are blank sleeves in the back of the folder, but I can't be bothered with that so they just get thrown in the front LOL. One day I will make them pretty and file them in the custom recipe tin I made for that purpose. I'm also considering the irony of having the Nigella cookbook sitting right on top of the CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet book :$

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iPod (with speakers): Great for dinner parties, scrap nights and just much easier to do housework while rocking out to a favourite tune or three :)

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The Fridge: Always covered with artwork, shopping lists, bills, school notes and fingerprints. But it looks colourful right?

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The Pantry: Could do with being a bit bigger actually LOL. Complete with little person in the shot, and one of the quirky items I mentioned earlier. That step/stool came from my grandmother's kitchen. It was made by her brother-in-law and I remember spending many hours at my grandma's side on that step, watching and helping her cook. And now my kids do the same with me. It's still steady as a rock by the way:)

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Mmmmmm, coffee: Don't get me started. I think every home should have one of these! Bye-bye instant, helllloooo flavour! That said I have been weaning myself off the strong stuff at breakfast and opting for iced water during the summer. But come winter . . . . look out!

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Marble pastry board and rolling pin: Again inherited from my grandmother's kitchen. I had to wait about seven years to have a kitchen with enough bench space to handle it though LOL. Wouldn't be without it. So handy! In fact, just used it for pizza dough on Friday night. Perfecto!

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Loves of my life: Yep! My dishwasher. I seriously sometimes wonder how I lived without it. Absolute torture while we were building this house as the rental that we were living in didn't have a DW, but we bought this one before we moved in. So it sat out in the shed for about 6 months! In it's box! Not being used! Oh and the ridiculously expensive bin. Well, sometimes a girl just needs a bit of bling. Even if it does hold food scraps and smelly cat food tins? Right???

Well, that's about it folks, and if you're still here 'til now you deserve a freakin' medal LOL!