Pantry Project

All right, like I promised, I'm posting about my pantry project I did a few weeks back. First off, I wanna say that I LOVE ORGANIZING! I love having everything in it's place and everything uniformed. Doing this, however, is quite expensive when you buy everything made up. So, I did a DYI project for food storage in my pantry that cost me less than $5 for each jar.

Here's the final product. I absolutely love the chalkboard look on jars. It's so fun to label everything!

I bought these jars from Wal-Mart. I bought the gallon size ones but they come in other smaller sizes as well. The first thing I did was wash and dry them out so they would be ready to use after I finished them.

I bought chalkboard paint from Home Depot. It comes in a small can, but you don't need a lot for this project. You can also have the paint department tint the paint in about a dozen colors if you wish. I saw a blog post about making your own chalkboard paint here on the Salt Tree blog. I haven't tried it, but I'd love to hear from anyone who does and how they liked it!

 I wanted each jar to look the same so I taped off the jars with some leftover painter's tape from when we painted the house. Make sure to have a good seal with the tape to the jar.

I painted each jar with two coats per the directions on the can and then waited for them to dry for three days! It seemed soooo long! 

Once the paint dried and I took the tape off I had some bleed through from the paint. I was able to scrap it away with my finger without too much trouble.

Rub a piece of chalk over the chalkboard before writing on it and you're done. Finished! All I had to do was decide on what to put in my jars and admire them from their shelf.

 I hope you guys like my little project and maybe it inspired you to create one of your own! Thanks for reading and I plan on posting about baking soon!