The very first crafty things I ever did as a kid probably involved glue. That’s what kid-crafts are about: crepe paper, glue, glitter, big beads, construction paper, and other brightly coloured things. I’d get good and sticky and there’d be glue everywhere. I still like doing crafts like that, although I have been sticking to knitting recently. Knitting, that craft that doesn’t leave your hands sticky, and rarely leaves them dyed. I played with glue recently. Grown-up glue though, and for a grown-up purpose:
A spice rack!
Someone posted a project like this on craftster YEARS ago, and it has been in my mind since then. I finally got around to doing it!
The cases are 70mm watchmakers cases from Lee Valley Tools, and the magnets are 3/8″ rare earth magnets, also from Lee Valley. (How weird is it that the cases are only listed in metric, and the magnets only in American Imperial?
The labels that make them look oh-so-pro were just in the bottom of a kitchen drawer, hidden under the aluminum foil. They’d been there since we moved in, part of one of the boxes of random implements I got from my grandpa’s house.
Ikea sells similar things at $10 for 3. My set of 24 cost me about $36, including a gigantic tube of E-6000 glue that will last for years, provided I don’t glue the top on.
I did go to Ikea for the magnet board. They have a stainless steel kitchen wall panel (that’s also magnetic… isn’t stainless steel NOT magnetic?) called Imperativ that would’ve been $35, and I couldn’t see any way of attaching it to the wall apart from glue. The also had magnetic bulletin boards in almost the same size, for $12.99. I got that one.
