Cheryl wrote:
Isn't it amazing how our kitchen stuff keeps disappearing into the
stamp/craft room? I also use my stiff acrylic spatulas to spread the YES.
It really holds well. Once, I also used a putty knife borrowed from my
husband's storage cabinet. Just wondering what other uses for kitchen or
common household items we all may have found useful in the stamp room?

Oh, my, where to start.

Things that have been permanently relocated to my studio:

* The icing spatula I mentioned
* Blender, used for recycling junk mail into handmade paper.
* Toaster oven (moved to garage for better ventilation) now dedicated to
polymer clay and shrink plastic
* Rolling pin, also used for poly clay and ... flattening things.
* A couple of cookie sheets
* An old strainer (useful for draining paper pulp)
* Kitchen tongs, very handy for holding cardstock while heating EP, etc.
* Ice pick, pressed into service as an awl and never returned upstairs
* Rubber husband (jar opener) which got turned into a background stamp.
Rubber gloves, ditto.
* A couple of potholders, for dealing with hot stuff
* A chef's apron (I'm as messy in the studio as I am in the kitchen, and
I had two)
* Numerous boxes of toothpicks, waxed paper, zip-lock bags, etc., or
partial contents therefrom
* Empty spice jars with shaker tops - I like them for embossing powder
and those teensy beads-without-holes and such.
* Um ... what else? Several spoons. At least one table knife. A few of
those Glad kitchen containers. A plastic mixing bowl with a
tight-fitting lid.

For the most part, these have been one-way relocations. It's not a great
idea to move utensils back and forth between kitchen and studio (a lot
of what we use to make art should *not* be ingested). But, heck, it's a
good excuse to get new kitchen gadgets!

Not to mention all the coffee mugs and drinking glasses that tend to
gather in the studio while I'm working. Those go back to the kitchen ...
eventually.

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Pat Kight