It’s little blog thing going around (God, that makes it sound like a flu) which asks the fairly simple question: what’s on your fridge? Take a picture, point out the highlights and introduce us to your little refrigerated world. Oh, and no fair putting up stuff to make you look cool. Can’t really think of something you would put on your fridge that would project an infallible aura of coolness, but you get the point. I am only showing the freezer door to my fridge. Why? Come on, you can’t give it all away on the first date. So, here we go.

Oh, and I didn’t arrange the things on the fridge to line up geometrically like that for the picture, I actually put stuff on my fridge that way.

1. Magnets I have recently made, all of which are available at Sixth & Elm (or will be in the next week when I finish posting the rest). It is mildly interesting that with all the magnets I make I am not actually using any of them on my fridge. I just store them there as they are waiting to be sold and I use tape to stick stuff on. But the magnet population on my fridge is in a state of constant flux as new sets are made, sold and replaced, so it is just easier to use tape then the round up replacements to hold our treasures when I sell one of them.

2 & 3. Sixth & Elm promotional postcards that I designed and the Sixth & Elm Magnet Mini Calendar. Email me if you want one. No place like home to get in as many shameless plugs as you can.

4. Etsy.com button magnet – the first one I made with my new button maker. Email me if you want one of them, too! 3 for $5…

5. Chicken Note: “Don’t open the freezer or a chicken will fly out”…. this wasn’t a joke. Adam likes to do this thing where he stuffs the cupboards or freezers in a clever way so things will fall on you if you open them. His sisters said he had been perfecting his technique in this long before I met him. This note was in regards to a chicken he had propped against the freezer door. I tried to shove it in fully but couldn’t and we were having party, so i put the warning on the door. Didn’t work though. Everybody kept opening the door to see what I meant and then gasping in surprise as a frozen chicken fell into their arms. Well, I warned them. The sign was never removed, even though the chicken eventually was. It was yummy.

6. A family picture of our cousins Amanda, Kaitlyn, Melissa, Courtney and their Mom and Dad, Janice and Gary. 4 of THE COOLEST girls you will ever meet. They are so different but they ALL excel at whatever they do. They are each so unique and amazing and they never let themselves be shadowed by their sisters, which is hard to accomplish when you have three of them.7. SARAH & LYDIA!! Sarah is my best girlfriend and the first of us to venture into the world of marriage and motherhood. Her and Bill have three beautiful kids (who probably have perfect pitch) Thomas, Hannah and Lydia and is waiting patiently for me to join the club so we can get back on similar schedules.8. Hannah – Baby number 2 for Sarah and Bill and Godchild #1 for me!!! I love Hannah – She is like a little pixie. I keep expecting little fairy wings to pop out of her jumper.

9 Thomas – Baby number 1 for Sarah and Bill, named after grandpa Lubos, who will always hold a place in our hearts.

10.”What goes in your green bin?” magnet. It is part of the new composting program set up in Peel Region where organics are picked up once a week and composted. I think it’s great. The magnet lists “greasy Pizza Boxes” as one of the items, but what about pizza boxes that are not greasy, like the ones from pizza places that don’t dip the crust in oil? Can they still be composted? Or is the layer of grease actually vital to the composting magic?

11. A birthday card from Baba. Man, I miss her. I wish she had the Internet. And the lottery ticket inside won me five dollars, that I promptly lost buying another lottery ticket that did not win.

12. A signed picture from the mouse and his lady. Oh yeah. It’s the real deal, too. It says “To Chantelle & Bruce (that’s Adam’s actual first name but he has been called Adam, his middle name, since birth)… Love Mickey Mouse, Love Minnie Mouse.” And he actually does his “y’s” like the Disney logo. Adam took me to Disney for the VERY FIRST TIME on our Honeymoon (I was so excited – I’ve been to Europe, been to the tropics but never to Mouseville and I wanted to go there more than anywhere) and this picture was inside a card left in our hotel room on the resort. If the hotel finds out you are on your Honeymoon they give you these “Just Married” buttons (which were so dorky and it was awesome and you have to wear them because you get all kinds of free stuff and line jumps!) and leave a card in your room. It was actually inside a card that said “Happy Birthday” instead of congrats, but that’s okay.

13. This was a perfectly ordinary grocery list that morphed into something else as guests kept adding to it when we aren’t looking. It reads:

Green Apples
Pears
Magic Beans
Fairy Dust
A rock shaped like
Chuki ……..(Our Cat)
Eggs
Alligators
Kitty Litter
Lemon Juice
1 Grandson or Granddaughter ………..(Three guesses who added THAT one)
Jam
Quills & Ink
Potatoes
Firebolt
Purple People Eaters (4)

So that’s it. If you post a picture of your fridge leave a comment here so I can go and check it out.