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Showing off your Spices! (a DIY post)

Aside from being 16 hours away from home, one of the things Mary and I missed most during our freshman year of college was not having access to a kitchen. Instead of weekly baking and homemade family meals, being stuck with a college dining hall meal plan was a change we both had trouble adjusting to. We are both beyond excited that this year we will be living in a four person apartment-style dorm outfitted with a kitchen! 

We were also surprisingly thrilled to find out that the kitchen comes with no supplies. Instead of using old pots and pans shared by students even before we were born and covered in who-knows-what, having an unstocked kitchen meant taking on some fun projects to make the kitchen our own! While some may call us crazy bringing everything from our baking tips, cupcake liners, knife block and ice blue hand mixer and food processor, we are excited to continue our blogging adventures while at school. One of our latest kitchen projects we just had to share is our DIY (do-it-yourself) glass spice jars with chalkboard labels. 


If you have some occasional OCD design tendencies like I do, you might be unsatisfied with the wide assortment of spice jars of all shapes and sizes shoved inside your spice cabinet at home (at least, thats how the spices are "organized" at our house). Though our dad is a fabulous cook and loves his spices, his spice cabinet is a hodge podge of countless mismatched jars and shakers.

While this system may work for him, Mary and I wanted a more organized and cute solution to storing our herbs and spices. After some searches on Pinterest and trips to some of our favorite kitchen stores, we found the perfect solution!


After we decided on a kitchen color- a pretty robin's egg blue, we were so excited to find glass spice jars from World Market that perfectly matched our kitchen decor. For less than a dollar apiece, we grabbed a couple dozen jars to have enough for all our favorite spices. 


After some Pinterest searching, we found the cutest free hand painted printable chalkboard spice jar labels that come in a variety of shapes and colors (via WorldLabel and painted by Emily McDowell). We chose the black circle design, and printed the template on full sheet label paper so we could cut the labels perfectly to size. 

We are so happy with how the spice jars turned out and can't wait to show them off in our new kitchen! Instead of shoving our spices in a cabinet, we plan on storing them in a cute wire spice rack we found, also from World Market! 


While glass spice jars may not be for everyone especially for those like our dad who have their own organized chaos of a kitchen, making these spice jars was a great way to show off our spices and in turn save a bit of cabinet space! 

Enjoy,

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