What type of food accents do you collect for your kitchen?

[cat lover]

I collect old enamel cookware and display it on top of an old antique Hoosier cabinet that I refurbished. I love going to flea markets and such to see what piece I can find that I don't have. In addition to collecting it I also incorporate many of the items as useful cookware from time to time. I especially like using it for gatherings; it just gives a old timey look to the table!


I also collect roosters. I have two pictures of my first roosters hanging on the wall and a few stuffed ones.


What do you collect?

[ajrsmom]

I used to collect copper molds and old hand tools--old graters, rolling pins, whisks....etc. I didnt hang them up when I moved to NC so before I moved here, I sold them at my yard sale.


Your cookware collection sounds really nice. What colors do you collect?

[DeBora4BobbyL]

My kitchen and family room are one big room. I have a theme for each room (bird room, Bobby room, chihuahua room, etc...) The family room/kitchen are the African-American rooms. I fill either of them with African-American motif. I used to have some antiue Aunt Jamima type salt and pepper shakers until my kids broke them while playing in the house. Since I started college, I have done as much collecting as I would like.

[cat lover]

ajrsmom; I wished I had been at your yard sale! I have a few old kitchen tools that belonged to my great,great aunt and some that belonged to my grandmother, but they are in my drawers in the kitchen; I use them. I also have a pancake turner that my great grandfather made; he was a blacksmith; that one is on display only.

DeBora, I just love anything Aunt Jamima, but the things I have seen at flea markets all cost way too much for me!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

That's why I wanted to kill my DS when he broke them by running in the house. My All God's Children figurines aren't cheap either. When I see a Miss Martha's collectibles, my DH has to watch his wallet. LOL I've got so many famous people like Frederick Douglas on my mantle. They are just adorable.

[snowmoonelk]

I have started collecting Polish pottery. I have a really pretty blue spotted teapot and a butter dish. I should like a milk jug and some cups and saucers, but they are expensive...I am about to become a student, too, DeBora.

[cat lover]

Oh those are so pretty, I have two very small pieces that a family member sent to me when they were in the military. They will probably be the only two pieces of that I will ever have.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Snowmoon, good luck with school! What is your major?

[barbszy]

I love that Polish pottery. Don't have any--and in my kitchen I have nowhere to put anything anyway.

I have a few "antique looking" vintage-repro signs hanging up (Nabisco cookies, Hershey chocolate, etc.) and a pizza peel. Basically that's all I have room for. Everything else in the kitchen is strictly functional.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Does anyone have a picture of what it looks like?

[barbszy]

Here's a pic of my "wall of signs" plus the pizza peel. (Well, that's a tool I use, & have nowhere else to store LOL)

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Do you have a picture of the Polish pottery? I like the antique stuff too!

[cat lover]

I am not sure how to put a picture on here; the one time I tried at FC it told me I had to resize so I haven't tried since!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

It depends on what you are trying to post and what type of picture it is as to the size it will allow.

[sharlibird]

My kitchen is apple/fruit themed...just changed from geese/ducks a few years ago, so I still have a few of those left (they were my GMA's that I inherited so I hate to get rid of them). I used to collect salt's and wineglasses that I displayed in my kitchen on decorative shelves, but I have no room in this small doublewide, so they're packed up in storage (and I hope NOT BROKEN!).

I made my own utensil holder a few years ago to match my kitchen by using the wallpaper that was behind one of the cabinets, and my stepmother actually was able to find the potholder/towels set in WalMart to match the wallpaper. Other than a few pictures and needlework on the walls, that's about all I can put in there. No room :(

[cat lover]

Sounds cute! I know about inheriting things and not being able to rid of them AND not having room for them! I have several things that I just recently came acrosss that I'd even forgotten I had! LOL

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Welcome to MM Sarlibird! If you get a chance, pop in to the Welcome thread (http://www.momsmenu.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6018#post6018) so that others may meet you!

I live in an RV during school, so I can relate to "no room." I cannot wait to hear other ideas from you.

[Coll]

My kitchen is cow themed. I have numerous cow things. My favorite cow related item is an old glass milk bottle that came from the dairy that was about a mile from here. We used to go there for ice cream when I was a kid. They made it there.
I have an old 4 loaf bread pan that came from the bakery of longtime family friends, it is hanging on my kitchen wall. I'm trying to talk them into letting me have the old table that is in the bakery basement.

Coll

[cat lover]

Oh that is so neat that you can get a hold of things that are from childhood memories! It makes them so much more special!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

I have never heard of a 4 loaf bread pan, unless you are talking about the mini-loaves. Sounds like a cute kitchen.

[barbszy]

DeBora, bakeries often have these 4-loaf pans....kind of like 4 individual pans but held together on a welded-on frame. They had them in the bakery where I used to work, for the white bread loaves & pullman (sandwich) loaves.

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Thanks Barb. I have seen the mini-loaf pans like that welded together, but never regualr sized. Now that you have mentioned it, I have seen them on television, but didn't think much about it.

[Marie]

I've got so many different kitchen collections now that I rotate them. The main theme is apples. Besides all of the apples themed items on the walls, etc. all of the cabinet and drawer pulls have apples on them. I also have vintage and reproduction advertising signs (barbsy I love yours!), hubby's grandmother's kitchen utensils (we bought his grandparents' house) and Hargrove prints and paintings on the walls and soffits. I collect salt & pepper shakers, advertising tins and sifters and those are the things I have to now rotate.

[cat lover]

Oh, sounds like you have lots of treasures! I had a friend that a few years back did a apple theme in her kitchen and she found lots of apple things, so neat!

I think is is where we were talking about polish pottery a while back, well today at one of my flea markets I found another piece! Evidently it didn't mean much to someone I got it for $1.00 yoo-woo!!!!

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Marie, your kitchen sounds like it feels warm and inviting.