Pantry Boxes

Good Monday morning everyone. I am so glad to see you and it is such a pretty morning here. You know what? It won't be long until we can have our coffee on the porch or patio. Won't that be fun? Enough of what we will do,  let's get our coffee and have a little visit. I hope you enjoyed your visit to Deb and Carols. They both love their homes and it shows.
Well I told you I was going to paint my porch and I did. I don't have it decorated yet, but hopefully next visit we will have a new backdoor picture. I need to get it decorated and I will. After I painted Wednesday I was attacked by a horrible virus!  See, I knew painting was bad for you!lol I have been sick for almost a week. I do not like being sick, but am better now. Enough of that! I wanted to share my small collection of Pantry Boxes with you. I love boxes as you know.(another addiction), but pantry boxes were used for so many things. They fascinate me.

These three are displayed in the great room. The little one has written in old script, soda. Some housewife was certainly organized! The larger one has something  stamped on top.

These two are my favorites. They have the prettiest patina on them. It doesn't show up as nice as it looks. I got them from my friend Marsha, at Corner Antiques. Why do we always have a favorite in our collections?

These two are full of spices. I try to use most everything. (The firkins are full too. The smaller one spices, the larger one corn meal). One of these has soda stamped on it. The other is bright pink inside and I bought it in Maine two years ago.

This one is full of bay leaves. See things can be useful as well as decorative.

Not an old one, but I love it. The color is so pretty. It is from the Shaker Village, Pleasant Hill, Ky.
You know what is in it? My beautiful fall bowl fillers from Sarah.(All Roads Lead Home) They are safe in there.

These are some Deb painted and gave me years ago. They are on my dresser and I keep costume jewelry in them. That is all of my Pantry Boxes. I don't buy them now because I just have too much stuff! I will buy more, but they have to call my name. I think a collection should be something you really love.Otherwise why collect them? One of the things I enjoy about prim friends is the fact we love "things" but know it isn't about "things." We know what is important in life. We have our priorities straight, we just enjoy the icing on the cake.
Thanks for coming Through My Back Door again, where life is good. I can't wait until our next visit.
betty