Kitchen Play

Looking around my kitchen, I realized that functionality is a big value for me but I seem also to enjoy playfulness. Some of these tools I purchased but others have been gifts from friends and family who seem to understand my love of whimsy.

Here's a little quiz. You'll recognize the Santa egg whisk, the yellow duck nail brush and the tomato timer perhaps but what's the function of the star on the end of the long stick between the pink octopus dish brush (with soap in a cavity in the head) and the green fish soap holder under the squid whisk that always make me smile when I use it? Will you hazard a guess?