Magpie Ethel

I Love to Organize

I admit that I am an organization freak.  Nothing gives me more pleasure than getting everything in order all neat and tidy. I can live with some disorganization, but eventually it will get to me and I will get it all back in order.

Recently my kitchen pantry needed a boost.  All the shelf liner paper was fraying and looking dingy.  I replaced all the shelf liner and got new containers for my flour, sugar, rice etc. 

It all looked tidy but boring. Luckily Today's Creative Blog did a feature on this gal jk vinyl.  She does these awesome labels in whatever color you want.  This was just the thing that I needed in my newly organized pantry!

Don't these containers look totally cute?  I now smile when getting out such staples as flour and sugar!

The labels were simple to apply and you can totally color coordinate with your decor.

I am one happy organized woman! (plus the kids went back to school!)

Woody Woodpecker Started It All

When I was growing up we camped alot.  In our camping gear we had a bunch of mismatched silverware we always took with us.  In amongst the hodgepodge of silverware was a "Woody Woodpecker spoon".  We probably got it from sending in cereal boxtops but it was the spoon that my brother, sister and I coveted the most to use and we always but "dibs" on it.

That is the Woody Woodpecker spoon on the left. I ended up with it as an adult.  The spoon on the left was my grandfathers.  It is Charlie McCarthy... ventriloquist's doll from the 1940.s.  Thus with these two spoons my collection began.  Antique advertising spoons...I now have over 75.

Tony the Tiger, SpaghettiOs, Dennis the Menace, Dr Ballard's (this was a dog food brand, hence the little lip on the bottom of the spoon - for scraping the last tidbit of dog food out of the can) and Punkinhead (I don't know anything about this one)

A couple of different types of old Mickey Mouse spoons.

Superman, The Green Hornet and Davy Crockett.

Little Red Riding Hood, Jello (I looked a long time for this one), Betty Lou (a Quaker premium) and a couple of Campbell Soup Kids.

  

The Two Professors (no history on this one), Sunny Jim (Force Cereal premium from 1902), and Malta Vita.

Mary Poppins, Howdy Doody, Kukla (from Kukla, Fran and Ollie) and Huckleberry Hound.

This is how I display them (I know....how original a spoon rack...but my hubby made this one for me!)  The photo is horrible, but I love how they look all in their tidy rows!  I have found about all the advertising spoons that I have been searching for although their is an old Kewpie doll spoon that has eluded me!