We have a huge drawer of spices in baby food jars, but their paper labels are now greasy and all the same yellowy-white colour, so we always have trouble finding the right jars. Alphabetizing the drawer was not a sustainable strategy.
So this is the new approach. I think colour-coding the lettering according to the item contained within will help. Herbs will be green, mustardy and gingery things ochre yellow, curry and turmeric orange, darker spicy things brown, salt and garlic powder white.
I love these chalkboard markers. If I were a teenager all over again I would teach myself hand lettering and drawing with these implements and contract out my skills as a café board artist. I think it would be the perfect part-time college job.
That is such a cool idea! I too dislike white labels on things in the kitchen for the reasons you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI would like to try this as a way of making my motley collection of reused jars look nicer, as well as identifiable. I fear if you were a teenager now, though, you would be competing in that role with twenty or thirtysomething art school grads.
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