It's been well over a year since I've had any time for projects ... my time has been all consumed by studying for LSATs, writing graduate school applications, relationships, a new job, blah, blah, blah, blah ... but this morning, I woke up and found that I actually had some free time and it would be only marginally irresponsible - rather than wildly irresponsible - to use it doing something other than the aforementioned things.
So, I did a project!
I've been dying to figure out a better way to organize the millions of different grains in my poorly organized, poorly planned pantry. While wasting time on Pinterest the other day, I saw lots of inspiration - mostly of the sleek, modern, mason jar kind - and I decided to create my own. My most important criteria was that I had to have some way to label my jars. It wouldn't due to go mixing up my couscous with my wild rice of-course!
Enter the ever popular among crafters, diy-ers and Martha Stewart wanna-be's everywhere - chalk paint!
Instructions:
1. Start by taping off the area on your mason jar that you would like to convert to an awesome chalk board surface. Be sure that you tape up the entire bottom of the jar to prevent any drippage. I learned this the hard way.
2. Mix the paint well and brush it on your jar in a thick coat. Try to use as few strokes as possible so as to get a nice smooth surface.
3. Let dry according to directions on packaging.
4. Remove tape.
5. Despite my thorough taping job, I had some dripping and oozing going on when I took off the tape. Nail polish remover worked wonders to touch things up. That stuff is amazing! A scraping tool was also helpful for cleaning up the edges of the painted area.
Ta-da! You've got yourself some lovely, stylish, inexpensive new storage containers.
Happy organizing
