Today is my day off, so I decided to tackle a corner of the kitchen that has been making me crazy: the tea corner.
First of all, I’m glad to live in a house with a tea corner, it shows we are civilised and genteel young women. However, the state of the corner speaks differently.
I’ve been wanting to put some kind of little shelf in there so the tea can take up less space, and can look more organized. I had thought of building one from wood, but I have no wood lying around right now, nor any nails. Fortunately, as I was taking out the recycling, I found a small shoebox.
I covered it in wood-grain contact paper (the best goodwill find EVER), and voila! A little shelf. 
This took all of fifteen minutes, and was really pretty simple. It could have been more difficult if I had cared that the grain all go the same direction, but I don’t mind the incongruity.
An added bonus is the fact that the box is the perfect height for our tall canisters of tea.
Three cheers for an orderly tea corner!
Wish you girls would come down to Livermore and visit me for an extended period. I have LOTS of corners that could do with your style of organizing! Kinda satisfying to have it turn out so cute and practical with minimal (zilcho?) expenditure, isn’t it!