hey guys it's jen and i'm so excited to be back in our kitchen because let me tell you i've been
going down a big rabbit hole of watching kitchen organizational videos on tiktok i
don't know if that's just me is that what the algorithm is feeding me but i swear to you
i've been going insane using my cricut to label everything having like all kinds of different
levels and acrylic organizers and i cannot wait to show you guys those of you who are
really wanting to see the whole process of making those labels with a cricut do not
worry i have you covered i will be showing you that a little bit later on in the video
but let me just go back in time and you guys can see what a hot mess our pantry was really i had a
couple lazy susans but that was pretty much the extent of the organization it was really just
jumbled there were things kind of mixed in with other things and i cannot tell you how pleased i
am to show you what it looks like now so what we did to start is we took
everything out of both the refrigerator and the pantry everything was completely covering
all of our counters it was kind of wild just seeing it completely empty please ignore our
power outlet that's not quite covered yet we keep forgetting to tell our contractor to put a
plate on there we wiped everything down threw away anything that was expired or unused and that just
gave us a really fresh slate to start off with okay let me just show you here's our pantry now
so here is our pantry let's start from the bottom and then go up so down here our family really
loves eating cereal if you can't tell but we like having a few different kinds on hand because i
don't know about you guys but i feel like i tend to get sick of eating the same cereal from day to
day so we have some of our favorites up here and of course our beautiful labels absolutely love
these absolutely love that they're in the clear containers because you can just quickly see what
you're needing from day to day and these are so cool you guys you just push this open and pour
it out i love it you don't have to like rip open a lid or anything they're so easy and they also
stay super fresh over here we have a couple of different lazy susans i think the thing that was
really mind-boggling for me is as you can tell we have a really deep pantry so we wanted to utilize
all of that depth but i found that lots of things in the back i couldn't really see one of the
things that we saw from tick tock was using these level stands we actually put a lazy susan on top
and in front so now we have two layers of lazy susan's we can just spin it to get whatever we
need we love our hot sauces so we have all of our hot sauces which are up a lot we have a lot
of hot sauces we have that back here and then in the front we have stuff for pbj's and also
honey because i love eating tea drinking tea behind there i have a little shelf with some
granola bars because we don't grab for those all the time that's why they're sort of behind our
row of cereals moving up to the second shelf this aesthetically has to be the winner right here not
only do we have our cooking oils and sauces right here on a lazy susan so it's really easy to grab
our less used sauces are behind there especially if they're really tall and we can just sort of
see what they are right away we don't really grab for those as much as these ones up here
on the right side this looks like a store you guys i'm so excited because i always find that with
canned things it's really hard to remember what you have i don't know if that's just true for our
family because for some reason it always winds up in the very back and they're all stacked on top of
each other where you can't really see everything at the same time but we used two sets of risers at
the front and we used another one of those wire shelves and put a second one in the back so we
can see everything now and not to mention because nothing is sitting directly on top of something
else you can just literally grab the exact single can that you need we just know when we run out of
something i never knew about these until tick tock so this is actually an extra little shelf
it's like a wire shelf that hangs from what do you call this the lip of the shelf if i pull this
over you can kind of see i'm sorry i'm destroying everything all of our hard work you can see this
just kind of pulls out and we can keep things that are really lightweight so we have our bread
and our tortillas because it's right over our cans here there's plenty of space to reach everything
and this is still out of the way but it's still very accessible if we need it especially
because i'm very short and i can't always reach everything in our pantry without a step stool so
helps with the short life just gives you an extra little chunk of space to put things
that are really easy to reach and then at the top honestly i underestimated how many of the acrylic
containers we would need so i feel like after doing this i'm just gonna get addicted to going
to the store and buying them especially if i find them at a good price because i could use like 10
times more i'm totally obsessed i even made labels for the little circular pop tops let me show you
you can see i used my cricut to make the labels for these little circular tops which i think looks
so cute this way if i have these in like a lower drawer you can put them all next to each other and
still see what's inside even though the top isn't clear but i might actually end up making labels
for the front because for now we're keeping them on the top shelf alright so i told you i was going
to show you a little bit more about my cricut explore air 2 and how i made those kitchen labels
i have to say the literal actual label design was definitely inspired by a tick tock that i
saw which i loved just like the very clean modern edges and i wanted a material that's going to be
like pretty permanent like not rub off so this has just been super super perfect for it like i said
before this is the cricut explore air 2. i love the minty green color it's so versatile you can
literally use a hundred different materials to design with cut transfer you can make t-shirts
you can do so many different projects and i am personally super excited about that our family
is just cheesy enough to really love coordinating outfits and i really want to make some customized
family t-shirts but for this project i just wanted to do something super super simple with these very
easy to read labels with a very very clean basic font so i basically pulled it into the app that
cricut has for designing i literally just picked the shape i wanted pulled in the font i wanted the
really important thing here is to set things that you want to cut to the cut option and the draw to
the draw option so that you can tell the machine what it needs to cut and what it needs to draw
but honestly when it started going it draws you in with how it like prints the words but it's so
crazy because you just put in this marker and it uses that to draw everything to perfection
way better than i could have drawn that by hand for sure if you guys actually want to check out
the designs that i made i have it saved so i will link that below for you if you just want to like
use the exact same format and these labels are perfectly circular they're also exactly measured
to the size of the containers that i was using i was actually really surprised with my own ability
to just freehand place them on the containers and it looked perfect the very first time and i know
that is because of how precise everything was cut out i can't even take credit for it because
it's definitely this machine so i feel like just because of all the different projects you can make
and you can always like change and customize things as you go so i think it's just like a
really great value if you know you're gonna make a lot of things and if you're definitely a really
crafty person it's just a really great investment i'm so excited to do some more elaborate projects
in the future with it for sure i was also honestly really shocked about how easy it was to use
it's just really such a smart little system that i was just you know kind of like in awe
of it working and doing its thing because this is the first qriket machine i've ever used so yeah i
also found it to be quite easy and very gratifying next i wanted to move over to the refrigerator and
to be completely honest i have never gone all out organizing my refrigerator before
we've just always used the containers that were already in place i guess it just never occurred
to me like what a life-changing change that would be because seriously this makes me really happy
first of all again the same process we emptied everything and then put it all back by category
we have a bunch of sauces here this looks pretty beautiful to my eyes anyway i think that the key
tick-tock organizational things that i learned was just having
some of these acrylic drawers if you have kids and they have yogurt pouches
this is just very satisfying to me but we also have one for our sundubu we have one for some
fruits that are really easy to grab which is fantastic this size is really perfect for having
drinks i always just have them sitting upright but i feel like anything that you can sort of grab and
pull out that's the game changer for me that's what i didn't realize about these containers
is all of a sudden anything that holds things becomes its own drawer once again lazy susan
i have to open and close it because the refrigerator is mad at me for being open okay so
we have our lazy susan which is so awesome to have in a refrigerator i don't know if you guys have
one of these this is so cool it's an egg holder but the cool thing is that you can stack things
on top of it like deli meats but you can also easily see when you're running out of eggs as well
without having to open the entire container got your kimchi got your milk got your other drinks
and your panchan's very necessary down here we got a drawer full of noodles and some dairy things
here we have some extra fruits and veggies mainly veggies in this one so i guess that is about it
for our fridge i love it so much and already i just i'm so excited to just you know be able to go
in grab a piece of fruit have it all be organized be able to see everything it's amazing that is
about it for today's video thank you guys so much for watching if you enjoyed this or learned
something new or if it just inspired you to organize your kitchen i would love it if you would
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to cricut for sponsoring this video i love you guys so much and i will see you in the next one
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