I needed a new spice rack since mine didn’t seem to hold enough variety for me anymore and I found a really great deal on a wooden, rotating lazy-susan style, twelve jar style at the local Fields store marked down from 20.00 to 3.50.  Never one to pass up a deal or a possible project I snapped up the last four of them figuring I’d find some use for them all.

The project itself is very easy, I simply painted the wooden structure of the rack with black matte paint and did the same with the lids.  While those all dried I printed off some awesome vintage apothecary labels I found on the net and glued them onto the jars under a coat of sealant.

The most important thing to keep in mind is which spice is really in the jar labeled poison or arsenic.  You might like to make your own style of lables with the real spice names on them instead of using the vintage labels, that way your pastries stay sweet instead of spicy and your chili isn’t flavoured with nutmeg.