The Cluttered Pantry

You may have thought that Cluttered Pantry is just a name we came up with for a blog full of lots of different topics. In fact my actual pantry is far more a part of my world than it should be. I explain this a bit better in theIntroductory Post for the site, but suffice it to say that when I came across a new option for custom labels to use in my pantry I got more excited than most people might at least admit to.

Twisted Sticker is a Canadian-based company that makes all kinds of labels and stickers that are super great, especially if you have kids with lunch boxes, water bottles etc. But besides having a most excellent name, it turns out they make custom labels specially designed for your spice jars and ingredient cannisters.

There is a pretty funny side story to how I found them. I recently asked several people to blog, email, Face Book post, and Tweet to help us promote our new Really Really Big Wall Photos online store. One of the people I asked was Natalie of Bake and Destroy. She was nice enough to post a tweet about our wall prints and in it she said she wanted to use us to make a giant version of the awesome Bake and Destroy logo, and within moments she got a direct message from the people at Twisted Sticker saying they could do it better. Har! I mean, who knew this was such a cutthroat business. Kudos, though, to them for using social media marketing faster than any competitor I’ve seen. She sent me a note about it, so I checked them out.

I was all set to be aggravated by seeing the competition but, Be Still My Beating Heart; look at what they have! Besides being able to select the background color and options for choosing from the list of ingredients you want labels for, you can select the font–

something that makes my day since I hate the font that standard labels come with. The labels are made of a durable vinyl so they’re washable, and they say they’re also microwave safe (I haven’t tested that yet).

Then, if you want, you get to choose graphics for them as well. I love the idea of using the skull and crossbones on items that no one else should be using, but that might be taking it a bit too far, even for me!

This isn’t a product review since I’m literally ordering my set as I finish typing this post, so I’ll just say that they look great online, and even though they tried to scoop a potential client from us using Twitter as a mad marketing tool, I think they have a great product line and plan to spend some time standing in my pantry admiring the newly-labeled goods as soon as they get here.

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