Bread Box

At the risk of sounding like the children’s literature critic that I desperately wish I was, I would like to suggest that if you are not familiar with Rosemary Wells, you have a gaping hole in your literary life.  My daughter and I believed we had exhausted our library’s collection of Wells’ Max and Ruby series, a favorite of my sagacious three year old, when we stumbled upon Max Counts His Chickens in the Counting Collection section of the picture books. (Sneaky, sneaky!)  All this to say, Max’s sister, Ruby, finds her ninth chicken (the marshmallow peep variety) in the bread box, which began my pondering the topic of bread box altogether.

Not that I haven’t considered the subject before.  Every time I pass them in the Ikea marketplace, I wish they had a selection that tipped the functionality vs. style scale a bit more to the latter.   But Rosemary got me itching for one, so I began my search, from a surprisingly small pool of options, if you rule out the plain wood and metal lunch box variety, which didn’t suit my taste.  Here are my top picks:

{a} Summergirl Breadbox:: nothing but breadboxes by the Summer Girl Shop, on Etsy $50.00 USD

{b} Vintage Blue Painted Bread Box::  by Royal Oak Cottage, a lovely Etsy Vintage Shop $45.00USD

{c} Vintage Enamel Ware Breadbox:: by McCune’s Sporting Collectibles, not the most 2.0 website on the planet, but some pretty nice finds in their Kitchenalia & Household Bygones section $175.00