Nutty Inspiration

This week I was totally inspired by several of our blogging friends over at Sheila's Heart of the Home party.  You just cannot visit so many beautiful kitchens without picking up a few ideas.  Thank you so much Sheila from the bottom of my heart!  I hope you put up a link on your side bar to this post, so we can continuously enjoy all of these beautiful kitchens.  Just a thought!

There was one blogger in particular who's kitchen totally stole my heart!  It was Christie's kitchen over at Three Pixie Lane.  Ladies, if you missed this one you really need to go and check it out.  She has such exquisite style in combining old with new.  I totally loved everything about her kitchen!  In that post, there were a few pictures of her clear canisters that held her nuts and her granola.  When she graciously gave credit to Yvonne at Stone Gable for the granola recipe, I was instantly reminded where I had seen those glass containers before.  I liked them the first time I saw them over at Stone Gable but it really came together for me after seeing them at Three Pixie Lane.  Why?  Because she used her own and her daughters silver baby cups for the scoops!  That's when the light went off for me, and I thought I can certainly do that! 

Yes, that's right we have 5 silver baby cups in our household just sitting in the kitchen hutch tarnishing.  Two for each of my sons and one that was my husbands as a baby.  I never had a silver baby cup, but I've been told I must have born with a silver spoon in my mouth.  LOL!

Every year for Christmas and even before Christmas we receive tons of pecans as gifts.  I even have a huge stash of pecans that are unshelled.  I like the shelled pecan gifts the best.  We never eat all of these even though we do enjoy eating pecans.  What usually happens is we get on pecan overload put them back in the pantry and there they sit forgotten.  Pecans have a wonderful shelf life though!  I have been trying to improve my eating habits lately and improve my overall health.  I have been reading alot about eating more nuts.  Since these are some that I readily have on hand I wanted to bring them out to be enjoyed as a staple item, but the plastic container just wasn't cutting it.

So after seeing Christy's jars I knew I had to go shopping.  I went everywhere looking for just the right jar.  I started at Ross, then went to Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Pier 1, Kohls, and Bed Bath and Beyond.  Some of those places had only sets of jars and some had very thin glassed jars.  BB&B had the closest to what I was looking for but was priced higher then I wanted to spend even with my 20% off coupon.  Luckily for me it is located right next to Target.  So, I hopped on over to Tar-jay!  And there I found them!  Woohoo!

So after washing everything up, I assembled my new nut jar!  I like the sound of that, it makes me laugh.

I decided on this baby cup for my scoop.

I discovered upon closer inspection this one is not silver but actually pewter.
 

I like how much heavier it is then the others and seems more sturdy like a scoop.

I have placed it front and center on my counter for now.  I only emptied the plastic tub and still have a fresh bag to open as soon as these dwindle down.  I have a feeling that won't be to too long from now.

Isn't this just the cutest snack you have ever seen?  I thought so!

I am joining Vanessa for Inspiration Friday today!  It's the party where you get to share all those wonderful bits of inspiration you scoop up all week!  Get it?  "Scoop" up!

Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by.

Let me know if you do.

Mary