Today’s Non-Consumer photo essay is inspired by springtime, the smell of home baked pizza and a night spent listening to the rain.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”
Last night's dinner was homemade pizza, baked on a garbage picked pizza pan. I find the crimped crust, lightly brushed with garlic butter to be especially pleasing.
I keep my bulk purchased yeast, (so cheap at Costco) in an old Ball jar. The repurposed top is from a salt container, which transforms into a pouring spout. I think I made this up, although I may have inadvertently borrowed this hack.
I always hang baskets of Fuchsias from my back porch. Instead of paying $20 apiece for them in May, I take advantage of Fred Meyer's once yearly sale of $3 for five starts. So, for $12, (which includes the potting soil!) I have three lush baskets to last me through the fall. Note the mismatched baskets, which were gleaned from assorted thrift stores.
One of the baskets hangs too high, so I added a couple of key chain rings to compensate. Note my mud farm. This area is excessively shady, and we will re-seed it within the next few weeks.
This cute reading area in my living room was put together through Goodwill, Craigslist and my mother's garage o' treasures. It is used more often than not by our cat, Hyena.
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Your pizza crust is gorgeous. I am going to need to work on presentation around these parts. Love the yeast hack. Ours is in a bag in the freezer. I may need to borrow that idea.
Love the name of your cat! Any resemblance to a hyena? And I’m totally envious of your reading corner!
Funny story, that. She made the funniest squeaky noises when she was a kitten. It turned out that she had round worms and a tummy ache, which was why she was so vocal. She escaped being named “Farty Cat” by the narrowest of margins.
Katy
The salt spout top jar hack is in the Tightwad Gazette. That pizza looks SO delicious, by the way.
But of course!
Katy
please share how you make such a beautiful crust! it looks like a golden rope–but tastier!
thank you–
I am also in awe of your beautiful crust.
The yeast spout is ingenious! Thanks for sharing…
That pizza crust is a work of art – and it looks so yummy! Thanks for sharing the idea about the salt lid, that is so smart.
Yup, that’s a crust Martha Stewart would be proud of! So pretty.
I’m stealing your yeast jar hack. Brilliant.
I think you might have to take some photos and explain how you made that gorgeous pizza crust. Mine never look anything like that!
That pizza picture makes me hungry! You really do need to share with us how you make your crust. Please!
Your plants and pizza crust look really nice…how awesome is the planting event at Fred Meyer? I wasn’t going to put in much of my usual container veggie garden this year, but with the free soil at Fred Meyer I only spent $12 on plants and got 7 good size pots full of quality potting soil. Score!
Great photo essay, great ideas all, and I love Hyena’s name! I’d love to see her in a future photo essay!
And Hyena would love to be included. She’s been asking for ages, but I try to protect her privacy. 😉
Katy
A mason jar 🙂 and it’s not being used for canning.
I have slowly fallen in love with the Mason jar sketch. I take my time with decisions.
Katy
what a sweet nook!
You simply must do a tutorial on your pizza crust. It is a work of art. Please!!
That salt spout hack is the solution I’ve been searching for!!! Now if only it worked for liquids….
I recognized that Tightwad Gazette hack a mile away! 😀
That pizza looks mighty good.
Oh, I love the reading nook! That chair is awesome!
I can never understand why people buy new furniture when the second-hand stuff is SO much cooler! 🙂
Oh, I love the reading nook! That chair is awesome!
I can never understand why people buy new furniture when the second-hand stuff is SO much cooler! 🙂
Love the key rings! I always end up with so many floating around!