Look who's cooking

It's really a shame I don't have a "before" picture of this play stove, because you wouldn't believe how ugly it was. Originally it was sold as a bedside table for kids and it was painted in four bright colors: red, yellow, green and blue. Tacky. My husband painted it white inside out, we changed the hinges so that what originally was a little door is now the "oven hatch" that opens from the top. We added the metal knobs and made the hot plates from black plastic.

I found a cute little pot at the drift store. The color is just plain pretty, a soft aqua. And the size is just right for playtime although I could keep it to myself as well and just admire it.



Dinner's ready!

I have also made some playfood for the kids. Carrots, fried eggs. A little basket of strawberries (somehow most of the strawberries have disappeared). Fabric fish. I even had spaghetti (strips cut from white fleece) and meatballs, but they were accidentally sucked into the vacuum cleaner a year ago. I should make some new ones. And maybe some sausages from pink felt. And lettuce leaves out of green felt. Making all sorts of playfood is fun and easy, just need to set free some of that creative thinking. I'd like to learn how to knit cupcakes and donuts as well, I've seen some really beautiful ones in blogs of talented knitters!