Oh, how I love an organized pantry! For some reason, keeping my pantry in tip-top shape is extremely hard for me though. I have figured out a few tricks that really help. My number one, favorite trick is labeled baskets for school lunch and snack storage. The baskets eliminate all of those pesky cardboard boxes that are half ripped, half opened and all cluttered looking. I also love the larger baskets for chip bags (on the bottom shelf). The great thing about the labeled pantry system is that anyone in my family can put away groceries and things are always “where they’re supposed to be”. When we put away groceries, we remove all the granola bars, gold fish, rice krispie treat packages, etc. and dump them into the baskets. Then we flatten boxes and haul them straight out to the trash. This makes pantry clean up virtually non-existent! Everything stays nice and tidy, for the most part and it’s so easy to see what we need at the store, when it’s time to make the grocery list!
I organized the entire pantry in “zones”. This makes finding everything from ziplock bags to baking supplies – super quick and easy!
I thought I’d share an easy tutorial on how I made the labels for my pantry baskets.
First, I found the baskets at Lowes, in the closet organization section.
I made the tagboard labels for the baskets using my Silhouette machine. Here’s a complete list of the supplies I used…
Silhouette Cameo Machine
Black Vinyl
Tagboard
Hole Punch
Hook Tool
Transfer Paper
Transfer Card or Credit Card
Twine
Baskets
Create rectangles measuring 1.5″ x 2.5″ and center the label names using the font “Janda Closer to Free”
Next, peel away the words. As you can see in photo below, I collected all the letters on my finger as I peeled. The hook tool is a great accessory for this job!
After each label has been peeled, cut transfer paper to exact size of label.
Peel transfer paper and attach to top of label, as shown below. Use a credit card or the “scraping tool” to ensure that all areas are completely attached.
Peel away the transfer paper, along with attached label.
Center label on tagboard. These tagboard pieces measure 3.8″ x 2.2″.
Use the same (above) transfer paper method to attach the label to the tagboard.
Isn’t it a cute label?
The photo below shows all of the labels, as I had just completed them.
I used some old christmas twine to attach the labels to the baskets.
Project done!
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