Labelling your preserves/Chalk Paint recipe

For years I've made wee labels for all the sauces, pickles, jams and various other things we make. They're ok, but nothing special. Then a couple of days ago we were over at R&V's for dinner and Ness showed me what she'd done with her jars this year. Painted a bit of them with blackboard paint, then written what was in the jar and the date in chalk. Inspired!
So I did it with Lloyd's last batch of Chilli sauce. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

I thought - can I take this even further?? So I had a wander around online and found recipes on how to make your own blackboard paint! Which is great as it's really expensive.

All you need is any paint type, and colour - stuff you've got left over will do.
and a tin/bag of dry non-sanded grout. Now I have yet to source this here so I hope I can get some...

Chalk Paint recipe
So, pour one cup of your paint into a bowl.
Add 2 teaspoons of the non-sanded grout and mix really well making sure all the wee lumps are out.
And that's it! How simple is that?

Then I saw an idea to use this method to mix up a batch of chalkboard paint the same colour as - say - your kitchen doors, I thought I could do our larder door as I still have lots of the lovely blue paint left that I used to paint the kitchen doors a few months back. Then when you take something out of the larder you can write a list straight onto the door!

Inspired!

Ok a little update - I managed to find the grout powder stuff - Placemakers have it. However unlike all the American blogs I read where they could get a relatively small amount which cost about $2, the smallest box I could find was $18.99 It's made by Dunlop. I suggest if you have any like minded friends, you share. When I asked for non-sanded grout no one knew what I meant, so ask for the powdered grout - it's the same thing!  It's probably worth noting that I live in the sticks so cities  may have a better, cheaper choice.
Also read my instructions properly -like I DIDN'T! It's TEAspoons of grout, not tablespoons!! I've done the mix in the colour I painted the kitchen cupboard doors. First coat is on and it looks great. I'll do a couple more and report back.

Oh and thank you all so much for yesterdays comments welcoming Stella. She's feeding on her own now, which is a huge relief, and is very bouncy in a gangly sort of way, Herbie is beside himself with joy as he now has a wee friend, I think Stella will love him more as she gets a bit more robust. Right now she tolerates him - just!