The Spring Kitchen

I love the idea of decorating the house for each season

Here are some wonderful ideas for a Spring Kitchen

Get inspired and decorate your kitchen, change up the decor a little with splashes of color

and you can make some items with just a little inspiration and a few items

Seasonal Kitchens

The Spring Kitchen

Spring kitchens are airy, fresh places where we feel

stimulated, 

energized, alive with possibilities.  The first step

in making our 

kitchens places of inspiration is old fashioned

spring-cleaning.  

Even those of us who loathe housecleaning as a

tiresome, thankless, 

repetitious, and endlessly boring chore can learn to

enjoy the 

process of marking our territory with magick.

By the end of winter, the world looks a bit scruffy

and neglected.  

Dead leaves and fallen branches litter the ground,

along with 

remnants of snow pocked with grime.  Just as a

gardener needs to 

clear away the winter debris to make room for spring

growth and 

flowering, so it can be a good thing to clear away

debris from our 

kitchens.  Make space in your life for fresh, good

things to grow.  

Take some time in early spring to decide on your

kitchen essentials: 

What is truly necessary for you?  

What could you do without?  Give away anything that

doesn't serve 

you.  When your kitchen is clean and uncluttered, your

spirit can 

breathe.

Once your kitchen is as clean as  you feel like making

it, you may 

want to celebrate the stirring of new life with a few

essential 

springtime decorations.  Flowering bulbs and bare tree

branches can 

both be placed in water and allowed to bloom.  

Teardrops of glass hung in the window catch the light

like melting 

icicles.  Dark, earthy, winter colours give way to the

lighter, more 

airy ones of spring--a pastel rag rug for the floor or

a woven mat 

for the table may refresh your spirit.  Look for

shades of mouth-

watering yellow-green, violet, rose, pale blue,

silvery dove-gray, 

and a tender yellow the color of the emerging sun. 

These are the 

colors that will help you to envision, to plan, to be

inspired.

Spring is associated with air, and with thoughts,

ideas, and words.  

You could invoke the power of words in your kitchen by

writing a few 

important ones here and there.  

Use large letters if you want them to be seen (in a

border around 

the ceiling, perhaps), or hide tiny ones in secret

places.  Get 

yourself some magnetic poetry for the fridge.  What

are the words 

that you need in your life?  Is there a special quote

that you could 

frame or incorporate into your kitchen?

By the Spring Equinox, the birds are returning and the

world is 

filled with wings, nests, and the heart-lifting sound

of their 

singing.  One traditional and pleasant way to

commemorate the birds' 

return is to include a nest or two in your kitchen. 

You could buy 

one (Spanish moss, twig, or wicker nests look very

realistic), or 

you could find a real one (as long as it isn't being

lived in 

anymore), or create your own.

Fill your nests with eggs.  Traditionally, eggs have

held a place of 

special veneration as objects of power and magick. 

Egg-decorating 

is an ancient way to honor this season.  And you may

want to tuck in 

a feather or two, as well--these are especially

meaningful if you've 

found them yourself.

There are egg-shaped soaps available now that would be

fun in a 

nestlike soap dish on the sink (look for nice

all-natural herbal egg-

soaps in specialty stores or gift catalogues).  Or, to

make your 

own, try grating leftover bits of soap into a bowl,

mix with a 

little water, and shape small palmfuls into eggs by

hand.  If you 

throw in a few leftover coffee grounds, your soap will

have a wild-

bird-egg's speckled look and will also be a good

deodorizer for 

oniony hands.  Whenever you wash with a bar of

egg-soap, let the 

symbol remind you of the incredible power to create

that lies in 

your hands--and in your heart, your spirit, your mind.

The first tender vegetables of the spring garden make

a welcome 

appearance now.  The tiny carrots, cheery radishes,

asparagus 

spears, and the earliest new peas to sprout up in

gardens may be 

found on everything from teapots to vases to

dinnerware to tea 

towels, which let you invite their hopeful message

inside as well.  

Or you could paint or stencil that veggie of your

choice somewhere 

special: inside a cupboard door to cheer you whenever

you open it, 

for instance.

By late spring, the world is strewn with flowers. 

Make a place on 

your table for a vase spilling over with blooms, or

find an O'Keeffe 

print to brighten your wall.  The sensual beauty of

flowers has age-

old associations with love, sex, and pleasure, and

late spring is 

certainly the time for those.  To invite the power of

loving 

sensuality into your kitchen, choose fabrics and

accents in shades 

of rose to remind you of your own sacred petals. 

Consider making a 

rose-patterned pillow for your power place; then,

every time you sit 

there, you will be embowered by these rich symbols of

the Goddess.

Source:  Cooking Like a Goddess by Cait Johnson