She is a missionary to Asia. I have several sweet friends from all around the world. One from France, a friend from Australia, and Asia. They are faithful friends, always writing me and sending things in the mail. I appreciate them so much. They brighten my day each time I think of how they took the time to think and pray for me and my entire family.
Talita showed me her kitchen but more importantly, she showed me a little of her heart. She has such a great perspective and I thought it would be an encouragement to pass along her wisdom to all of my other readers.
Please send me your ideas, I would love to post once a week a glimpse into another woman’s home, the way they organize! What fun!
Here is Talita’s lovely kitchen and her encouraging story of how she makes the most of her Tiny Kitchen space…
I was so happy when I came upon Erin’s blog. To organize and to keep my kitchen organized can be a tiring, constant, and a hard job. Her blog inspires me to keep going and to have a healthy standard. As I once told her, my kitchen is so small if all five of us just put our cups in the sink, it is full, and the kitchen is overcrowded.
The working space that you see in the photo is my entire kitchen working space. What is a miracle in itself is that I don’t get frustrated. If God is somehow putting me through a test of being grateful and thankful, I definitely am succeeding in this test, only by His amazing grace, of course!
I had many different kinds of kitchens in my life. I had kitchens that had so many cupboards there was space for more things than I even needed. I had a kitchen so big you could dance in it. I had a farm kitchen where I pulled an old dishwasher from the barn and used it as a dish cabinet, then I got my very tiny little kitchen. I also cooked for camps, so I am used to kitchens fully equipped, and yet kitchens so ill equipped that you had to use boxes as tables and had to cook in the open air (we love camping!).
The very first thing I do when I move into a new place is to organize my kitchen. It is after all the place that gets dirty very quickly and must be very hygienic. With this small little kitchen of mine I had to break it up in parts. In the kitchen alone is one of my refrigerators. Because it is a renting house, I got a cabinet on the balcony that I use for my dishes and plastic wear and microwave. I bought little plastic drawers and added to an opening in the cabinet. That serves for putting away my utensils.
For example, I needed another utensil jar. For a long time I had this ‘golden’ square flower pot standing around still with old dirt in it. I got tired of it, but did not want to throw it away. One day as I looked at it, still standing around and was inspired by Erin’s new Homestead creation, the idea came to me, use it as the needed utensil jar. So I have this lovely golden utensil jar. I will never replace it with a new one, because the discovery was just priceless.
Just yesterday I baked four pans of rusks, two pans of oatmeal cookies, one loaf of bread, two pans of hotdog buns and I cooked a tomato stew for dinner with rice. In my super small kitchen and in between my children had breakfast and lunch and drinks.
It is possible.
Through Christ everything is possible.
13 thoughts on “My tiny Kitchen: Guest Post”
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I am so glad you enjoy it!
That was super nice to see how you do your kitchen Talita!!
Talita, a huge Hi from South Africa, love your storie! You are very organized, I seem to lack the ability to be organized! I try to though, but with 4 kids and a boer, not so easily done.
Hi Shanelle. It is nice to hear from you out of sunny South Africa. We are approaching Winter here in Taiwan. I do miss Summer Christmases. God is good to us. We grow. We live. We learn to love more.
May God bless you.
Wow!!!! it was so nice to see your home and how organized it is. What an inspiration. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Talita is always an inspiration for me as her younger sister. She will always look at things in a positive way and if you ask her how she is doing she will always replay :”It’s going great” She never complain about her circumstances. And always an spiritual answer to all our questions. I true woman of God. Thank you for sharing with us Erin! God bless you and your families.
Very nice to meet you Talita and thank you for sharing your lovely tidy and organized home that is full of clever ways of storage. There is something very rewarding about having everything in it’s place. I live very differently from you as we have a 1400 acre sheep farm so there is a lot to look after but inside our home I have it organized and neat and clean. that is important not only for your health and happiness but as a lovely place to come into after working all day outside. thank you Erin for sharing this with us all xx your aussie mate vicki
What an encouraging and practical post! I love what Talita said about how she likes NOT having much money – so that she is forced to be creative. God bless!
Dearest Erin
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity. I enjoyed doing this so much. I feel part of God’s family even as far as Tennessee. God bless you for your open heart.
How very interesting. Thank you.
You sound like the type of woman I can live with for many many years. Well done Talita.
Thank you my dear husband.
Ai hoe mis ek jou nou. Kry sommer trane in my oe. Jy is darem maar net ‘ great mensie