New Dishes!

I was out today on my weekly yard sale-ing adventure and I came upon a yard sale with boxes and boxes of stuff.  The guy said he buys storage units and this was stuff he just wanted to get rid of.  I unwrapped a couple of items and saw very pretty vintage china.  I was in a big hurry (it was time to pick Caleb up from football practice) but I wanted to dig through it all!  The guy said, "I'll give that stuff to you for $5 a box."  I grabbed both boxes of dishes and was off!  I wasn't pleasantly surprised to see what my $10 had bought me.  Eric claims I'm a "dish hoarder"... I guess I need to prove him right sometimes... It's good for his ego *grin*  I can't wait to clean it all up and use it! 

Got Milk?

I love milk in glass bottles!  I love looking at them and I love drinking from them!  I buy a yogurt drink at the Asian grocery store called Yogu-Time and my girls love them... I remove the labels and hooray... vintage-looking milk bottles.

I discovered that cupcake papers and rubber bands make great toppers for the bottles.  A lot of people used to cover their milk bottles with wax paper and rubber bands so this is a fun take on an old fashioned practice... plus it gives me an excuse to use the cute cupcake papers I collect but never bake with!

Why not fill a vintage metal basket with milks to pull out after dinner to go with brownies or cookies?  Or keep them in the fridge for kids to drink in the mornings with breakfast?  There are so many things you could do with these paper topped milks!