summercraft: travel pantry
Aug 12, 2010 The other weekend, Sarah and I came up the best idea that launched a furiously happy round of high-fives: what about creating an adorable little kit to bring camping or when you rent a house and don’t know whether the cupboards will be bare? It stinks to have to buy a redundent pantry when you're away on vacation. But you also don’t want to lug everything with you. So what about some kind of sweet travel mini-pantry with smaller portions of the items you use most?
Genius! We made margaritas and wrote down all the great things to include.
Fast-forward to my arrival home. I found a perfect case at a flea market, and started collecting miniatures of what we had planned. Then the glory came to a screeching halt. I cracked open the recent Martha Stewart magazine, and my gaze fell on an impeccablely-assembled basket of kitchen items to a rental house. Dang it all!
Well, I went ahead and created this kit anyway. Because frankly, we were too amped up about the idea to pull back. And because I think our miniatures are even more practical. So I give you the traveling pantry:
I found this beat-up case at a flea market the other weekend, with a perfect top shelf for the smaller items, and a deeper bottom below for stand-up stuff. I added a little pizazz with a Lotta Jansdotter pre-cut stencil.
Then, the goods: go-to spices poured into smaller jars, some fancy salt, mustard, maple syrup, even a gorgeous tin of lobster pate! Dried mushrooms, flour, sugar, vinegar and oil. And of course, champagne.
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Reader Comments (6)
Although I love Martha. I'm convinced she has the ability to rummage through others minds and steal their ideas. Yours is awesome! I feel like we should be friends and when I buy a new home, you will gift one of these great boxes to me? ;)
Nice! Great idea. We recently stayed in a vacation house for a week and I packed up little portions of all the things we like to use in the kitchen... true, I love cooking, but it was even more enjoyable to create great food --without crazy shopping-- in a beautiful location.
even camping we always bring along salt, pepper, olive oil and hot sauce. it always makes things a bit easier...especially when we purchase things along the way at roadside produce stands.
I love the beat-up case alongside champagne and tinned lobster. My kind of camping: a little glam, and a little down and dirty.
SO cute! You are a girl after my own heart...love that you included lobster and champagne!! Thanks for the charming post and the smile. :)
Oh, I love it! The flea market case and stencil make it just perfect. :) Such a pretty, but still practical, addition to the usually less than glamorous camping arsenal!