Kitchen: Canisters and Labels

I got very sick of there being food in opened packets in the pantry, spilling everywhere as we dig through them when looking for something else.  I would love a super organised pantry like some of those freakishly beautiful looking ones I drool over.  But I'm not swimming in money right now following Christmas.

So I went down to Woolworths and bought a bunch of their basics range of containers.

I wanted pretty labels, so I went to The Container Store Website where they have free printable labels.  I figured that I would never ever be happy with my handwriting if I filled in the labels myself, and couldn't figure out how to get them written on as the file comes in .pdf form.

This is how I did it, I'm sure there's an easier way, but this is how it happened for me (I have a Mac, so instructions are for my machine).

• Open up the pdf file, save the file as a JEPG.  
• Open up Pages (which is like Microsoft Word).
• Place the .jpg file on a new Landscape document to the size I want the labels.
• Place a text box in each label, making sure they are aligned and centred (Pages helps with this).
• Find the right font and font size.
• Type out each item you are wanting to name.
• Set font opacity to 60% (or change colours).

Here is the result.