I love this clever little video.

It reminds me to look beyond the obvious, think outside the kitchen cupboard, as it were…

We have limited space here in our new apartment-world and I was flummoxed as to how to fit all the mugs in the cupboard, a cupboard that was sorely needed for things like canned salmon and other essential things like, you know, FOOD.

I had just purchased eight of these matching mugs and a dozen dessert plates for an upcoming little afternoon party and it was looking like they’d have to live in a box under the bed, a very un-feng-shui choice…And then it occurred to me.

The drawer beneath the cutlery drawer was empty. I lined it with an extra tea towel, carefully placed the extra mugs upside down on the cloth, adding the small plates to the side, and howdy-doody, there we were – a thing of beauty.

And if you must know? I get a real kick out of opening that drawer full of mugs and plates. It just looks like there’s a little party waiting to happen. Very Martha of me…

I like the challenge of constraints. Finding a home for those little party plates was kind of like haiku for the kitchen.

Or perhaps like working with iambic pentameter. Now there’s a mouthful you don’t get to throw around too often…