Since I have time on my hands these days I've been looking for little projects to do around the house. One of the things that has been bugging me is the state of my spice drawer.
Brace yourself.
What a hot mess. I've been looking for squat jars that I could transfer my spices to and I came across 4 oz. quilted Ball caning jars. The drawback to them is the two piece lid. I didn't want to have to monkey with that every time I opened a spice jar. Well Ball to the rescue again. They have plain white lids that fit all their standard mouth jars.
A note on prices – in store the lids were only $3.99 for a box of eight. I'm not sure why they are almost twice as much online.
I took inventory and then printed off labels for each type of spice or seasoning I have. I added a red band because I like the kind of retro vibe it has. I used the Traveling Typewriter font.
The labels are from Avery and their website has templates where you can type in whatever you want and add graphics if you want and then print them off. The only down side is their fonts are limited so I used the website to add the red band and then downloaded the MS Word template (also from their website) and used Word to add the text. For some reason I couldn't add the red band in Word because it kept messing up the placement of my text. I just printed the labels using their online template first to get the red band, then ran it through the printer again using the MS Word template to add the text.
Doesn't that look so much better? I didn't get enough jars for all my spices (who knew I had so many?) but I had a number of half jars and I just slapped the label on the lids of those. If I ever decide to get more of the Ball jars I can fit twelve more jars in the drawer.
The entire project took about 45 minutes and cost less than $30.
