Easy-To-Find Spices

When we moved into this house I arranged the kitchen in a hurry. We had a brand new baby at the time. Since then I have gone through and organized and reorganized. Somehow, though, I can never seem to organize my spices just right. I've tried tubs, just left them on the shelves, basically everything that didn't work. So finally, I decided to make room in my practically non-existent drawers for a spice drawer.

I love it! The two draw-backs are that there are so many different spice bottles and heights and the spices with black lids. I used a Sharpie to mark the names on the lids, but it didn't show well.

(I took these photos during the process, so the old jars are empty, and the old lids are on the new jars already. - That's how I kept track of what was in them until I finished the new lids.)

So for Christmas my awesome in-laws gave me new spice jars. I briefly considered these jars. They are cute, but not as practical for the drawer.

Then I designed special labels for the lids in Adobe Illustrator. I printed the labels on sticker sheets from 

I meant to cut them on my Silhouette but the computer was having problems so I cut them by hand. It really wasn't that hard.

They turned out looking fabulous! I even organized the spices by color. All the sweet (baking) spices are green and all the savory (cooking) spices are blue. 

Love it! I even ordered an extra box jars so I could have all my spices look this awesome! I'm thinking about coating the labels with Mod Podge or something else to prevent damage.

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