The Accessory Cabinet

I'm really not too sure what to call this cabinet.  It's the one to the right of the microwave.  It holds a variety of things from coffee, measuring items, wine accessories, candles for cakes, cupcake items, and sprinkles.  So I went with the Accessory Cabinet - and let me tell you when I unloaded all of it there was a lot of other things in there.  3 year old hot chocolate mix anyone??  It's amazing what that 3rd shelf can hide in the back...

So without further ado, the before photo:

Overall you can kind of see some organization to chaos.  Measuring stuff on the bottom within easy reach.  Coffee/recipes on the second level because they are less used, and slightly used items on the top.

The majority of this organization involved throwing things away and into the garage sale pile.  We had a ton of wine accessories!  Apparently we used to drink a lot of wine??  Or maybe not - maybe it was too much wine and I can't remember.  Either way, we don't need 6 wine openers and 8 wine corks, along with who knows how many shot glasses......ahh the college days.

So once the items were gone through, reminisced and trashed I was left with this:

Sadly it doesn't look like that much of an improvement but I can tell you there are a lot less things in there now and that makes me happy.  I had a white tub from Wal-Mart (3 for $1.97) that I put the kitchen scale, grater, and pastry knife along with some spices we haven't used yet.  The little blue tub (3 for $1) has all the food coloring/sprinkles in it.  Toothpicks still in the top.  Plus that shelf doesn't have anything hiding in the back anymore, big accomplishment.  Middle shelf is pretty much the same other than the recipes are actually in the recipe box and the birthday candles/cupcake items migrated up there in the back since they are rarely used.  The bottom shelf has the most progress.  Snagged some of these metal buckets the girls have gotten over the years for Easter and one now holds all the measuring spoons and can opener, and the other one has all the wine accessories (still kept some of the good ones).  Then measuring cups are sitting all nice and pretty.  There is so much more space on that shelf now I don't know what to do with it!

And look out - I got a label maker and have been labeling a few things here and there and enjoying it a little too much :).  Abigail helped organize her hair accessory drawer which I will have to get photos of.  There are no before, just the work she did.  I'm so proud of her!