DIY blackboard label jars
When we renovated our kitchen, I pored over lifestyle magazines and blogs, coveting their glistening kitchens with their beautiful exposed shelves. Nothing exposes your blocked digestive tract more than your entire kitchen pantry’s contents displayed for everyone to see. So, I recommend a closed cabinet to store (hide) your instant noodles and beautiful, delicious, soft, sugary, white processed bread. But your artisanal legumes? Put those out on display!
You will need:
- Many clean assorted jars in various sizes
- Wide paintbrush
- Blackboard paint
- Chalk or chalk pen
How to:
1. Ensure your jars are clean and free from oil and dirt, both inside and out.
2. Take the wide paintbrush and dip it into the blackboard paint. Using smooth strokes, paint a small rectangle on the front of each jar – approximately 7 cm (2¾ in) by 3 cm (1¼ in), depending on the jar size. Allow each to dry.
3. Fill your jars and use chalk or a chalk pen to add labels. Display with pride and know that you will never, ever get close to finishing that enormous jar of dried barley pearls. But your friends don’t need to know that.
Tip: Not feeling up to getting out the paint and brushes? Did you know that blackboard contact paper is a thing? Simply cut out labels from the paper and apply them to your jars.
This is an edited extract from Roped In by Gemma Patford published by Hardie Grant Books RRP $29.99 and is available in stores nationally.