February Favorites

This lunch box is one of my favorite things. It sits atop my refrigerator. I think refrigerator's look funny without a lunch box on top.

My dad always kept his lunch box up there at the home where I spent the first nearly twenty years of my life.

This isn't the actual lunch box he used. I found one at a thrift store once long ago. My dad actually thought it was weird that I wanted one up there for no real purpose at all.

There is no accounting for taste.

Actually, when I bought it I had planned to paint it white and use it to carry my money, calculator and all that sort of stuff when I sold rubber stamps. But once I put it up on top of the fridge, there was no turning back.

Anyway.., I don't think THGGM likes it. But it stays.

I also like the pink painted magnetic clothespins with RECIPE stamped on them. And the cute little girls glued to the top.

They hold - what else - but recipes. These are left up from Christmas. I've been thinking that I should make some cookies for Valentine's Day so I just left them there. I love seeing the 'detail' that my children added to the recipe cards many long years ago. Although it seems like just yesterday.

The check-mark-looking paper is a belt hanger pattern that I found in with some important papers of my dad's. He used to cut these out with his jigsaw. It will hold a belt in perfect balance on a door frame or even a finger.