My Hide and Seek

Reading a couple of blogs, Logcabin primitives and Behind my Red Door, prompted me to join the hide and seek challenge. I started out tonight with one side of my kitchen. I would love to have a big board to cover my stove, but they are $$$. I have a small cutting board that I found at a garage sale for 10 cents! It's not very large, but for now I'm happy. I did hang a feed sack from the handle of the stove door to cover up some of the white. We purchased this stove for our first house 14 years ago, at that point in my life I wanted clean white appliances. As you can see from the microwave above the stove black is my choice now. It goes much better with my dark red cupboards. Found the feed sack at a garage sale for $1.00, there were 4 of them there, why oh why did I only purchase one of them????????????????????? As my mother would say, "live and learn". This is the outlet that feeds the undercounter lights. My mom has her lights set up so that she never unplugs them, you just touch a door hinge and they go on and off. She even had her dog trained to turn them on by licking the hinge! I don't have outside hinges to set this up like hers, so when mine are on I have to plug them in. I don't leave them on for long periods of time, they get so hot. At most they might be on a couple nights a week for no more than 1/2 hour at a time.

You can still see the cord behind the cutting boards, but it is much better.

I love old mashers. The box is Navy Blue from Olde Century paints. Our middle child made it his first year in 4-H woodworking. It's supposed to be a flower box, but Mom wanted it in the kitchen instead. I know these pictures aren't great, I tried with the flash and it just washed everything out so you'll have to be satisfied with the overall idea of what I did. I have a wooden plate in the back of the box and leaning on that is a recipe for "Johnny Cake" in my Grandmother's VERY distinct handwriting.

All I did was move the nail for the sign over and it covers the outlet. The sign is an end of a shipping crate that my parents gave me. I like it because it says "New York" on it. I grew up in upstate NY and it's a memory from home.

My real challenge is the other side of the kitchen. I have the phone, phone jack, outlet for my under the counter radio, disposal switch & outlet. I have to do some thinking for that side. I think I'll walk around the house and see what I can snatch from other rooms. I'd love to see what you do to hide your signs of 21st century life. ~Ann