The Pizza Peel
I found it at a yard sale and the woman who sold it to me thought I was going to make pizza - such a silly idea! I explained that I repurposed things and although I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it, I'd think of something! As you can see, it's pretty large: It needed a good cleaning. You could feel the oil in the wood. A little Dawn dish soap and some scrubbing helped, but didn't remove all of the oil. I considered a few ideas: -Just hang it on the wall. -Add some sort of witty kitchen/pizza phrase. -Wood-burn a design on it. None of which 'jumped out at me'. Then I remembered I had some grapevine wreaths that I had made last summer, so I dug one out along with a berry branch that was in the box with them. A plan started to form in my mind, but first, I had to dismantle that berry branch. The individual branches were wrapped around a central one so it was easy to take apart. I separated the go...