Here's a fun and interesting question from Lou. This is a different sort of question for us - any creative ideas from you kitchen decorators? Lou asks...
I'm looking for a cool way/decorative way to store cookie cutters. Nothing in a box. Any ideas?
Good Question: Creative Ways to Display Cookie Cutters?
Lou, a couple ideas came to mind. First of all, it sounds like you already own cookie cutters. But just in case you don't, we rather like this set from Crate & Barrel, pictured up top on the right:
• A Year of Cookie Cutters, $24.95
It includes 12 cookie cutters - an assortment that is designed to get you through all the major holidays of the year.
But we also like this because of the cool glass jar. That's our first idea for you; buy some large apothecary jars with lids and put all the cutters inside; it would be an attractive jumble, lined up on a shelf.
Our second idea involves slightly more work, and it also depends on your personal style and the style of your kitchen. But you could consider a large shadowbox, or vintage display case with a door. Look in shops that carry collectors' supplies and butterfly cases. See the example up top from Martha Stewart; you could buy a case or box like that, and hang the cutters on pins.
• You could create your own and line it with a bright, modern fabric like in the Martha Stewart example.
• You could also, depending on the size of your cutters, buy a Treasure Frame like this one, $25-45 at Fine Home Displays
• Also see Shadow Box Frames at Pottery Barn. Only one size left, but it's on sale for $9.99.
And finally, along similar lines, what about getting a giant framed corkboard and using one or two straight pins to hang each cookie cutter? Again, this may or may not suit the style of your kitchen, but if you have a cool collection of vintage cutters, hanging them "invisibly" with a pin supporting a top edge and one stabilizing the bottom could look really cool.
• Framed Corkboard, $149 at Pottery Barn
Any more ideas for Lou?
(Images: Crate & Barrel and Martha Stewart)
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First, you should make me cookies. Then why not make a mobile out of them - you'd have to find a way to attach them so you could remove them in emergency cookie making moments.
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speaking of storing cookie cutters, can you mix copper with stainless steel ones? I put them in different large glass jars but thought it will look great to see contrasting metal in different jars!
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Lou, along the line of what Faith was saying, I have a shadow box with my two favorite cookie cutters in it. I think of it as cheap and practical kitchen art. The box is just big enough for the two cutters--it's sort of like one of those shallow crate-type boxes that holiday food assortments sometimes come in. The cutters (a bear and a moose, it's appropriate for our house) just stand in the bottom of the box. I tied a cool ribbon around the box, tied a bow at the top, and hung it from a nail.
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The ubiquitous peg board.
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i have this fantasy that one day i'm going to take wire hangers and string my cookie cutters on them (by untwisting the hook part and then retwising it back into place) and then hang the hangers on a wire across the kitchen, or make some sort of mobile with them. i know that this will require washing/dusting them off each time i use them, though, so i've been a bit hesitant. it would look really cute, though.
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Oh, the possibilities. To name just a few:
- hang larger cutters/molds individually from old-fashioned picture molding (mine is mounted very near the ceiling because I have modern height ceilings). There are picture molding hooks that the cutters can be hung from.
- hang ceiling to floor strips of ribbon with ties every 6-8 inches for individual cutters. I back each spot with plastic mesh for strength. Works best with cutters with a hanging loop or outline cutters.
- hang a chain or ribbon horizontally and tie cutters along the width creating a swag to display them (this can be done in front of a window very effectively with outline cutters).
- decide on cutter layout and stitch elastic to an artist's pre-stretched canvas (this is best with imprint cutters or lightweight molds). The cutters become art.
- the mobile idea (already mentioned) is very good. I have mini cookie cutters on a purchased mobile structure that was designed to hang photographs. All I did was change the fittings.
- use a folding screen frame (room divider kind) and attach the cutters to cloth, cords, or a mesh filler. This is my latest idea which I have not yet implemented, but intend to.
from a member of both the national Cookie Cutter Collectors Club and the California Cookie Cutter Collectors' Club
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