I, Too, Have A Mild Obsession....

My favorite soft yellow bowls from STONEWALL KITCHEN. I love them so much and they were a gift from one of my favorite people! At the time we had chickens and these bowls have chickens and little chicks on them, in a nice satisfying raised pattern with an egg border!





These hearty farmbowls are from Sam's Club with the name REAL HOME on their little spicy bottoms. I use them a lot in the fall, and they're always on the table with my old bittersweet pattern stoneware dishes (which have their own story to tell!) that we use every year for Thanksgiving.



Nice ridges and border is always a plus, as it makes them a pleasure to handle, and easier to hang onto when they're slippery in the dishwater, no?

Your average everyday workhorse ANCHOR-HOCKING nesting bowls from Wal-Mart. And they're cobalt so they had to come live with me. I've had them for YEARS. They've been used and abused. I think they were pleased that I was finally paying them some attention after their years of faithful service.


And, these, too came from Sam's Club, trademarked INDOOR OUTFITTERS. They're a nice set, each with a different border color. They've also been employed in my kitchen for years and years without complaint. They've been used to bake in and take meals to shut-ins, too. And, they're farmhouse-y and sturdy.

Yes, I do love nesting bowls. I'm not the only one. I can't get enough of them. You can learn more about how my post got started over here at Pioneer Woman's blog. (You'll need some time to yourself and a nice gigantic mug of coffee, because once you get to her Blogdom, you won't be able to stop reading. Just a warning! She has the most wonderful stuff in all of her blogrooms.)

I thought maybe it'd be a nice blog subject for all of us to share, (if you do post about your nesting bowls, let me know in the comments section and I will link you in this post!)

I know we'd all love to see your nesting bowls, too. I believe nesting bowls are just one of the pleasant little benefits about being a mom, a wife, and a cook. We won't mention the unpleasant ones. We'll not think about those today.

I really did enjoy my nesting bowl photography....the bowls behaved very well, posed nicely, held it for me for a couple shots each, and forgave me for my weeping and wailing at discovering the fact that there was one among them who is missing. Can you tell which set is missing one of its brethren?

Why had they not told me? Where has it gone? Is it in the trash, all broken up? Is it at some other house living in their pantry or cupboard? Is it in the kitchen at church, where I've left it after a potluck? (I need to look into this, it's bugging me now.)

I also have an orphan bowl and a batter bowl obsession, too, but we'll save those for another day.

Get brave. Show us your obsession with nesting bowls! Please?

(In the background for these photos, I used my three dollar handmade crocheted rag rug found at an estate sale last summer. I love it a lot! It lives on my porch in the summer.)

And this set of mixing bowls caught my eye not long ago at the thrift store, and they are for sale in my new Farmhouse store, not because I don't love them, I do, they're beautiful. And they're enamelware trimmed in silver.

But they are too gorgeous not to be in some beautiful shabby rose and very chic cottage. They just didn't feel at home in my farmhousey-ness; they had no other pastels to hang with!