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I like this one from FredFlare.com

http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=1483&cat=254

It is sorta cutsy, but i like it.

There is a Marimekko recipe box at the MoMA store, I saw it there last week. It was kind of expensive for cardboard that would be damaged if it ever got wet ($18). Unfortunately, I can't find it on the online store. (It was at the main museum's store). It was blue and had fruit on it.

While we're on teh subject, can we talk about different ways to organize recipes? Maybe this is worthy of a separate post - eds? I learned the index card method from my mama, but I'm not really feeling it. Too much trouble, frankly, to cut and paste onto index cards; like my mother before me, I'll never get around to it, but unlike her I'd like to try something different. Especially since most of my recipes come from the interwebz. Maybe just a 3 ring binder with plastic sleeves, but that seems a little cumbersome.

mjoe,
I do the 3-ring binder method, but without the plastic sleeves. Printouts from the internet go in; frequently-used recipes from cookbooks get photocopied and put in; only pages torn from magazines go into plastic sleeves (because of the uneven edge). The recipes get a little dirty, but I'm not too bothered by that.

I have the three ring binder with recipes from the web, however I really don't like it. I also would like a modern looking recipe box. I want one because I am always modifiying recipes, so my print outs have scratch outs and they get out of order and a binder is just too bulky in my opinion.

Here's another vintage one - it's extra big and has common conversions on the inside. Red and white, too...

http://www.rubylane.com/shops/charmingandcheap/item/6534?gbase=1

mjoe -
I have a little wooden recipe box for my old stand-by recipies, ones from my mother etc, and a three ring binder for web print outs, and photocopies from library cookbooks that I'd like to try some time. If the binder recipes turn out well, then I take the time to write them on index cards for the box...

Wow! A blast from the past. I used the Mod Floral one in 1973 in Miss Lintner's 8th grade Home Ec class. That is so long ago that boys were prohibited in it.

Sadly, the beauty of the box did not lend itself to my cooking abilities. However, I always love a good box!

mjoe: I just blogged about different ways to organize recipes, including a number of recipe boxes as well as other alternatives.

There is a plain stainless box at Container Store. That is what I have and an accordian type file for magazines and internet recipes. Gets frustrating sometimes to find when I am looking for a specific recipe.

And I'm bidding on the THREATS box - foreshadows my cooking.

I have a Land O Lakes recipe box--looks like their pound package of butter. They probably still have the offer for it on the inside of their butter package.

I do the three-ring binder thing for web and photocopy recipes, too. I used to organize them by type, but I never bothered to keep up with it. Now I have a "Tried" section and a "To Try" section, which is easy to keep up with.

Ooh Jeri, I like your blog. Thanks!

i have that mod floral box!
my mom has the exact same one, and my grandma has one too. now my sisters are now on the search for them.
i found mine in a thrift store for 69 cents.
my brother found a lime green one with a black floral pattern on it at a thrift store also. they're a great place to check out for inexpensive pretty things!

If you're a DIY person, you can make one yourself. I bought an appropriately sized box at a craft store, painted it with acrylic paint, decorated it with some fun stickers, then decoupaged it. There is such a wide variety of stickers available in craft and paper stores that you could make pretty much anything you wanted. I had my DIY recipe box for almost 10 years (time flies!) and the only reason I recently got rid of it was because my recipe collection outgrew it.