Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Another Collection...



Probably one of my favorite collections are Vintage Recipe Boxes!! I love the tin boxes with the bright colors and cute pictures, even better if they are full of yellowed, handwritten recipe cards.




I started my collection with the red box above. Then it was like I began to notice them at every Antique store I walked into and I would pick them up. I had quite the collection but I decided to give them as gifts with handmade recipe cards for Christmas a couple of years ago... so now I am down to just a few favorites.


I am sure my collection of Recipe boxes will increase again though. There are so may uses for these fun containers! At the moment I use the majority of mine to store little craft bits in my studio.



6 comments:

  1. That is an awesome collection! I really love the first one!

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  2. My mom has the recipe box that's cream with the red heart and blue and red flowers. I have so many memories of rummaging through that box as a child trying to find a cookie recipe. I love this collection

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    1. I like to imagine the people who owned the boxes before, something that was used so often.

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  3. what a fun idea for a collection? And do you collect recipes to put in them? :)

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    1. The red box is the one that I keep all of my old hand-written recipes that I come across. They are so interesting to read and see what ingredients people used back then. :)

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