Shot Glasses Find a Home...Ours!

The vintage shot glass set I purchased this past Saturday now has a permanent home at our kitchen bar.  Meet: (top) Gun Shot, Short Shot, and Big Shot, (inside) Poor Shot, Double Shot, and Shot to Hell.  I used an old wooden cheese box as a shelf and three of the shot glasses fit perfectly inside. We already had another divided wooden box we use to collect paper coasters, beer caps and corks. 


The bar began as an old shelf unit I purchased at a flea market. It was already painted a fabulously bright yellow and had just the right amount of nicks and scuffs. It originally held my cookbooks, but we soon discovered that it would be perfect as a small bar in the kitchen to hold the makings for our "evening cocktails". Instead of gathering the items every night, why not make them easily accessible? We keep glasses, wine of the week, utensils, shakers and such at our handy "kitchen" bar.

We promise we don't have a problem with alcohol, but we do have two bars: our "kitchen" bar and our 1950's "dining room" bar. We purchased this beautifully designed, late 1950's bar, back in 1997 at a huge antique sale. Right now it holds all of my great aunt's china and glassware.

The mirrored disco-ball look of the spin-around liquor holder sold us. It also comes with a key so that you can lock up your stash from the young folks! We haven't had to do that quite yet with Annabelle. Yet we did have a cleaning woman who use to take shots out of our rum bottle, but she did such an outstanding job cleaning we left it unlocked on purpose!