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Great idea! Do you make house calls? :)

I like this.

I had a different idea for mine. (I'm still working on it.)

I don't like to hang art in the kitchen - too much risk of it getting splattered with oil or grease or water or whatever. So my kitchen walls are bare.

I have a bulletin board, on which I've traced all of my cookie cutters. I'm painting little designs - a happy sun for the circle, bright red heart for the heart, a daisy for the funny flower-shaped type thing. Then I'm going to put pushpins in each shape and just hang the cookie cutter over its designated design.

Hopefully it doesn't look stupid.

i love christinalouise's idea, and in my opinioon it's better if you don't have the space to store more boxed things. Mine are strung on sting and hung on my wire kitchen racks.

love this idea - my cookie cutters have a bad habit of finding their way in every nook and and cranny of the kitchen.

Christinalouise - I bet you will make more cookies with your cutters so accessible! It's a great idea to use kitchen tools as art.

Brilliant! Many thanks for finally giving me the concept to coherently organize and store my obscene number of cookie cutters.

I modified Carol's system a little:
* When cutting out level dividers, I left extra on each edge to fold up as sides/handles so I can easily remove/replace levels without spilling.
* Instead of tracing each cutter, I just nested them in however they best fit, categorized by level into specific holidays, animals, vehicles (I did say I have an obscene number of these things), etc.
* I wrote the categories right on the levels' sides instead of on separate cards, so levels can go back in the container in any order.

I really like christinalouisie's idea, too. It wouldn't work well in my kitchen, but I'm telling a couple of friends about it.

And yeah, I've got a ridiculous number of cutters, but I actually do use each of them now and then; I like giving baked goods, and we do Drop In & Decorate events. However, organizing these meant I found two duplicates to give away. 8)

One other note: Many cookie cutters are versatile. St. Patrick's Day's pot of gold is a nice cauldron come Halloween, a goblet cutter makes a fine menorah, ribbons can be scarves, etc. -- just decorate them however you want.