So several months ago I posted this very long post on some kitchen updates that included the story of how I wanted to make one of those magnetic spice racks but it was a major fail so instead I ended up with this:
Well I have really enjoyed having my spices so accessible and organized but there has been one little problem. The names of the spices are written in sharpie on the bottom of each jar which means that if I want to find out which spice is which I have to lift it out and check the bottom. And while this might seem like a fun carnival game akin to picking rubber ducks out of a kiddie pool and checking the bottom to see if you won a prize, the game got really old really fast.
So, enter my new toy: the Silhouette Portrait.
You can find all the info on this awesome machine here. It is basically like a printer except it cuts a variety of materials including paper, cardstock, adhesive vinyl, fabric, etc. I have been contemplating buying one for a while now so when I received some money for my birthday from my in-laws, I decided to take a leap and buy one. I LOVE it!
My first project was making labels for my spice jars using adhesive vinyl. I bought the label shape in the Silhouette online store. The online store has tons of shapes for download that cost 99 cents a piece. It is so much nicer than buying multiple cartridges of designs like other similar brands of cutting machines. There is also a featured free shape each week. The font I used was called stencil and I think it was one that actually came with Microsoft Word but who knows now that I have so many free downloaded fonts.
After putting all the labels on, I put them in alphabetical order to make them even easier to find. I love the way they look. This project was phase one in organizing my kitchen. Yesterday I finished organizing everything inside the cabinets so the kitchen is nearing completion. My next Silhouette project is a menu board for the kitchen wall. I'll share as soon as I finish!
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