Garlic Keeper @ MindSay

These are heady days -- Eric and I are on the hunt for our first home. Can it be that our life in the shadow of Wal-Mart will soon be coming to an end? Yes, it can. And while there are advantages to a 400-step commute to a 24-hour Wal-Mart, we are very excited about the alternative.

Before we began this latest venture, nothing bored me more than HGTV. I didn't even watch that much TV. Now, I can happily watch marathons of "National Open House," "What You Get For the Money" and "If Walls Could Talk." I have learned the definition of "short sale" and "radon mitigation" and can distinguish a gambrel from a colonial. I am lodging-obsessed AND I LOVE IT.

We went for our first viewing over the weekend and I would have happily made an offer on the spot; while Eric really liked the house as well, we both figured that might be a big hasty.

As an update to my previous post, my search for a cute garlic keeper was relatively successful! Etsy did come through for me in the end:



While it still has the traditional garlic keeper shape, at least it's not that blah unpainted terracotta.

For several months I have been on a casual but frustrating hunt for a cute garlic keeper, and can't for the life of me figure out who mandated that every garlic keeper has to look like this:



The ugliness pains me! That said, I did find this much cuter garlic keeper on a New Zealand website, proving that cute garlic keepers do exist, if not on this continent:



My hope is that I can find something decent on Etsy. Who would have thought that a cute garlic house would be so hard to find?