July 10, 2011
Tin Book
Because I’ve never stopped regretting not buying the book-shaped teapot I saw in England four years ago, there was not a moment of hesitation before I bought this book-shaped baking tin today. (I will admit, there have been moments of hesitation since. I have a feeling that collecting decorative baking tins is the beginning of a slippery slope to somewhere horrible, but alas, now it’s mine.) It’s a wide open recipe book, and the sides of the tin are the pages. I kind of absolutely love it, and it also means I can retire the baking tin upon which is printed a picture of Santa Claus looking like Satan.
I bought the tin at Madeleines, where we’d stopped in for our favourite watermelon sherbet en-route to the wading pool this afternoon. And after our successful wading pool sojourn, lovely Harriet (as usual) screamed the entire way home…
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful”
— William Morris
I think you’ve hit the jackpot here…
I love decorative tins (probably have a few too many) but don’t have one as lovely as this!
Very grateful for the tin support. I was just imagining my daughter having to sell it at a yardsale after I die, but I’m feeling much better now.
That tin is fun and will be perfect for bringing cookies to book-related events!
Also, if you’re lucky, you’ll have a grandchild who will have a love of your tins, for kitch or nostalgia value. Or you can promise yourself that when you hit 70/80/90 that you’ll sell them on whatever the equivalent of ebay will be at the time and make a tidy sum.
So jealous! May you have many years of bookish enjoyment with tin and teapot.
Very cute! I also love decorative tins, they are so handy. We have a double decker bus shaped one from M&S that holds our cookie cutters x