Woe is me. As of late, my life has been filled with difficulty and hardship.
While I’ve been preparing for this new Christmas feature, I’ve had to do hours of work with lots of jars from my huge collection. I’ve been tirelessly digging through my stash to find jars of different shapes and sizes. I’ve had to experiment with new recipes to see what food items work well to be baked in a jar and what mixes fit nicely in my jars.
As you can imagine, utilizing jars and playing with recipes has just been so very stressful for me (she says, with the back of her weary hand held pitifully upon her pinched up forehead, as she works in vain to hold back her despondent tears).
I just thought {sniff} that maybe {snort} some of you would appreciate seeing some new and very inexpensive gift ideas. And that maybe some fresh Gifts in a Jar ideas would help you figure out what you could give to teachers, neighbors, co-workers, friends, or that “hard to buy for” person this Christmas season.
And if you really think I’ve been weeping over my lot in life as I’ve prepared for this, you must be new around here. (Welcome to HeavenlyHomemakers.com. We are so very glad to have you here.)
I LOVE JARS!!!!! I love recipes! And if you put food in a jar, I get even more excited because those are two of my very favorite things. Put together. In one place. At the same time!!
I think food in a jar looks so pretty and well, when I see it, sometimes I actually do shed a tear.
So thank you. Thank you from the bottom of my happy heart for providing me with this wonderful opportunity to make food and put it into a jar with a lovely ribbon around the top (she says, with the tips of her trembling fingers pressed tenderly upon her smiling lips as she calms her quivering chin and tries to gain her composure).
All this (nonsense) to say:
Beginning Tuesday, and continuing on for 12 consecutive days, we will be featuring 12 fun, new Gifts in a Jar ideas. There will be fun for all ages and genders. Gifts of food, gifts for the jokester, gifts for the difficult to buy for, gifts for everyone.
And all of the gifts are in jars. It does not get any better than that. (This is where you all just play along and act like you understand how much I love jars even if you really think I am a weird jar fanatic with too much glass in my house.)
I hope to see you all here as we feature all 12 of these ideas. I hope to hear more of your fun ideas as we share ours. And I hope you will all discover some new gift ideas to use this Christmas season.
Want to get started right away? Download this free Gifts in a Jar eBook that Heavenly Homemakers readers helped put together last year. It is filled with fun gift and recipe ideas – great for any time of the year, but especially helpful right now. Read more about the Gifts in a Jar eBook here.
Download Gifts in a Jar eBook HERE
Stay tuned for 12 days of additional ideas. Dust off those jars. It’s gift making time!
Laura, I just came here to send you a link because as soon as I saw it I thought of you and then what do I see but this post. Amanda White at “Truth in The Tinsel” has this cute post about an advent calendar using jars! Here’s the link: http://truthinthetinsel.com/mason-jar-advent-calendar/ (If it’s not okay that I linked to someone else’s website then please delete this with my apologies…)
Yea! I love “jar ideas”!
Okay, I have a question. A jar question. You said you love jars and that jars can be frozen (that was news to me, but, hey, it works!) It seems to make the most sense to use canning jars, but I would have to purchase those. Can I make jar gifts and store things in the freezer in regular jars, like the kind I get my salsa and pickles in? That would be easier for me. Maybe then one day I can upgrade to the nice canning jars. ; ) Thanks for your help and thank you for all the wonderful e-books!
Hello Laura. Thank you for your generous ebook. You blessed me today =>
I love putting just about anything in jars. I have no pantry and a tiny kitchen so all of my baking materials go in one tiny cabinet… in jars. I would love to do gifts in jars, I just wish jars weren’t so bloomin’ expensive! I never run in to them any other way then buying them. But like I said, they’re so expensive!
Emily, check Craigslist for jars. I almost sold 30 of mine for $.50 each until I realized I wanted to do gifts in a jar this year.
Awesome, I’ll have to go check it out!
Yes, you can definitely just save salsa and spaghetti sauce jars and the like – recycle them and use them for gifts! They look just as cute and often come in fun shapes!
For some reason I cannot download the jars e-book. May be operator error, I’m not real sure, except most electronics seem to commit suicide when they see me coming.
Sharing your post on my FB page today. Awesome that you went through all that painful toil to bless others! (wink!). Seriously, that’s really kind of you to share your knowledge and I’m spreading the word so that you get lots of downloads.
Bless you,
Chris
Thank You so much,what a wonderful idea!!!