However, me being me, my tea collection kept growing. I am guilty of buying new teas long before I finish old ones, so the collection expands on a regular basis. Finally, I couldn't fit any more teas in the cabinet. And the ones that did fit in there, I couldn't see - tins were stacked every which way, one in front of the other in front of the other, and I could never find what I wanted. I put up a "tea menu" on my wall to keep track of what I had available, but that didn't make it any easier to find in that mess of tins.
So what's a girl to do? Go to Home Depot and buy some wood. I had this crazy idea one Saturday that I would build an internal shelving system for the tea cupboard. Everything that wasn't tea that was being stored in that cupboard got moved elsewhere. I bought some boards, nailed them together, bought a large set of matching tins so everything would be the same height, and put everything back in. Look how tidy everything is now!
Now I can find everything when I want it. Victory! The tins were an especially nice idea, and were purchased from Custom Magnetic Spice Rack (I also bought magnetic tins for my spices, so I could stick them on my fridge and have them in a convenient location). I won't show you the actual construction of the shelves; I admit to them being very slapdash. But they're beautifully organized, non? And check out my handwritten labels. Nice and concise and easily understandable.
I am way too excited about all this.
Taken from http://thatpourgirl.blogspot.com/
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