Decorating jelly jars for gifts

My favorite gifts to give are homemade edible gifts. They’re also my favorite to receive. If you’re looking for some great ideas on what to make and give, here are 100 to get you started! This post contains a giveaway, for more information read my full disclosure. When you are young and broke, homemade are […]

6 inexpensive and easy mason jar gift ideas you can whip up in your kitchen using simple ingredients in under 10 minutes.

If you love mason jar crafts and you're looking for a perfect gift this holiday, make these diy mason jar gifts. You'll definitely have a lot of fun making these crafts and produce a nice diy gift for your friend or two.

Each year around the beginning of December, a few teacher friends and I get together and make homemade jam and apple butter. Then we can the jam and apple butter and give them out as gifts. Due to scheduling issues this year, we couldn't do it together. Luckily I had my sidekicks to help this year - Kerry to help can and Stout waiting patiently for any apple butter goodness to fall on the floor. I made the apple butter in the crock pot, using applesauce and other ingredients, and let it cook…

No, I promise this isn’t turning into an all-canning blog, despite my most recent posts. I wanted to share a super neat trick with you that I originally saw on Pinterest from Brown Paper Packages. If you’re looking for cute jam jars as a way to spruce up your home-canned goodies, look no further. Prepare...Read More

Dana had a lovely tip last week on covering your freshly-filled jars of sauces and preserves with fabric and yarnThis is a nice tip for an extra muffin liners hanging about in the back of the cupboard — too few for a whole batch of cupcakes. (I have so many mismatched liners hanging out in my baking cupboard!) Use them to frill up a jar or two of homemade jam instead. Tie them to the jar top with twine, or with a rubber band.

If you’ve gone to the trouble of making homemade jams, jellies, or pickles1 Canning Party Printables, from The Cottage Industrialist: This printable set doesn’t stop at cute jar hang tags; it also comes with invites and recipe cards for a complete canning party.2 Canning Labels, from Make: This printable set gives you a variety of shapes and designs so you can keep your gifts straight.

I love canning jars. I use them for everything…organizing craft items, keeping foods in the refrigerator, storing baking supplies in my kitc...

Today I've rounded up 11 Jar Gift Ideas! All of these pretty crafts and projects were created using Vintage Graphics from my site. These projects have been posted on my site in the past, and now I'd like to share them in one place so you don't have to search for them!

Learn to make a decorative fabric mason jar topper to decorate jam, jelly and other jar gifts. This is a quick and easy sewing project and fabulous for using scrap fabric.