Kitchen Progress

Little Miss Elle had a good napping day. That being said, she's 6 weeks old so really I only got about 3 or 4 hours (total) to dedicate to cleaning the kitchen. Here are some photos of the progress I've made:

Waiting for my dishes to dry. It's takiing foooorrrreeeeevvvveeeerrrr.

Stove is clean. Counter is clean. Glass canisters are drying. Now I just need to look for a bread box at a thrift store.

Sorry that I forgot to get before photos of the cupboards. But this is my organized dishes cupboard.

My organized spice cupboard. Used a box that a stuffed animal came in to hold all the refill spice packages.

More organized baking/hot drink cupboard. Still could use a lot of work.

Got rid of all the half empty boxes of snacks and created the snack basket.

Still needs a lot of work but all my baking supplies are in the pink box (i.e. candles, cookie cutters, etc.). My plastic measuring cup (top right corner of photo) holds all my smaller measuring utensils.

Slow and steady wins the race... Or at least that is what I've heard. This is my life!

Clean Up: Kitchen Style

The baby is asleep. I am not tired enough to nap.I went to the kitchen to disinfect bottles and found a leaking glass of bacon fat sitting in the sink. After a big sigh, I decided it was due time for a major kitchen clean up! Here are the BEFORE photos:

View of the kitchen (and bathroom door) from the dining room. Notice the cluttered stove area.

I've got to confess, I thought to take pictures after I had began cleaning. This is why the area to the left of the stove looks clean-ish.

The glass canisters with chalkboard labels haven't been cleaned since I got them. Which was before I started dating my hubby. Oops. They've been emptied, cleaned and are currently drying.

This area is to the right of the initial photo. On the right is our "pantry", the back wall (covered by the curtain) is for overstock items (i.e toilet paper from Costco) and our garbage sorting area, to the left is the laundry room entrance and the fridge.

Our toilet shelf turned into a pantry shelf. Will need to clean these jars and organize this area.

Our garbage sorting area is on the bottom and the shelf holds our Costco purchases, the breadmaker, and junk.

This closet sits to the left of the area in the above photo. It holds all of our appliances. Our clothes drying rack is currently blocking the laundry room door. P.S. We still don't have a washer or dryer in our laundry room. Sigh.

Last but not least, the area above the fridge needs some serious help.

Stay tuned for updates as this ovehaul progresses. This is my life...