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Adorable Snowman Pails ~ Homemade Gifts for Less Than $5

December 17, 2014 by Laura Leave a Comment

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Homemade Gifts for Less Than $5

Here’s a fun idea Karen sent in. All it takes is someone with a vision – then a simple pail becomes a snowman. Love it!

Good afternoon Laura,

While I am not particularly crafty, one of my daughters is very gifted. She took one look at these metal buckets and saw snowmen! The little ones come three in a package in the party supply section of our local Dollar Store (3 for $1). The bigger one was on a clearance rack at Joann Fabrics for $2. We simply cut shapes from some felt scraps we already had and used the hot glue gun to attach. We thought about adding more decorations but decided on the simple look. Just fill with treats, nuts, or granola for gifting. With the huge success of Frozen and the snowman character Olaf, these have been a big hit with kids!

Blessings, Karen

Snowman Pails - Less Than $5

This ends our Homemade Gifts for Less Than $5 series. I have had so much fun creating gifts and learning from you. THANK YOU all for making this series so successful and enjoyable. Now be watching for what’s coming up next here at Heavenly Homemakers – a special healthy living invitation and our annual Holiday Brunch. I can’t wait to share these delicious recipes with you!

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Homemade Instant Oatmeal in a Jar With Printable Gift Tags ~ A Great Gift For Less Than $5

December 12, 2014 by Laura 5 Comments

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oatmeal gift

What’s more exciting than receiving a sock full of dry rice for Christmas? Getting a jar full of oatmeal, of course.

I wish you could have seen my 12 year old’s face when I told him we were going to make Instant Oatmeal as gifts for our church ministry staff. After all, in a land full of chocolate, candy canes, and marshmallow snowmen – why in the world would we want to give someone instant oatmeal? I reminded my son that our minister has had heart surgery and would likely not appreciate a gift of sugar covered corn syrup. I told him that our office administrator loves to eat healthy food, and that the others on staff would surely appreciate a convenient, warm breakfast.

I also reminded him how delicious this Instant Oatmeal is and assured him that it would look adorable in the jars I’d gotten on clearance after Christmas last year. I lost him after the word adorable. Ahhhh, boys. It’s okay though. He still helped me, and even if he doesn’t get why oatmeal in a jar is a great gift idea, I hold to the belief that our office staff will be thrilled. It comes in a jar, after all. What’s not to love?

Homemade Instant Oatmeal in a Jar Gift Idea

If you haven’t made this Instant Oatmeal for your own family yet, I highly recommend that you get right on it. You’ll especially find it helpful this holiday season as you may be just a little bit busy with extra jobs like stuffing rice into socks, pounding nails into boards, and frosting homemade mint oreo cookies. Not only is this a very convenient and quick breakfast, it’ll warm you right up.

Find our Instant Oatmeal Recipe here.

Skip the individual bags and instead fill up gift jars with Instant Oatmeal Mix. Download and print these fun gift tags, then attach them to the jar so your recipient will know how to make their oatmeal.

Instant Oatmeal Recipe and Free Printable Gift Tags

Download Our Free Printable Instant Oatmeal Gift Tags

I may be in the running for the “Most Practical Gift Giver Award.” Who’s with me?

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Homemade Gifts for Less Than $5

December 1, 2014 by Laura 12 Comments

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What do you get when you cross a hot glue gun with a pair of socks? Some scraps of fabric with shower curtain rings? A jar with some freshly ground flour?

The sky’s the limit, right? Homemade gifts are loads of fun to make, give, and receive. I have some fun ideas I’m working on, and I’m hoping you have some even better ideas. But you know how I am with crafts, right? I beg of you – help a girl out?

Homemade Gifts for Less Than $5

During the next two weeks, I’d love to share many ideas so that we can all put together some simple and inexpensive gifts. Whatcha got for me?  I’d love to feature your ideas here!

No pressure, but if your homemade gift ideas can include words like no-sew, easy-peasy, or maybe even crafts for dummies, I for one would really appreciate it. My clumsy thumbs shy away from difficult projects. I break out in hives when I see crafts that include more than 5 simple steps. I love making gifts, and swoon over homemade crafts, but I’m not gifted in this area and I don’t even know what “modge-podge” is. (Noun or verb? I seriously don’t know.)

So let’s review. I want homemade gift ideas. I want the ideas to be easy enough for a fifth grader (wait, let’s go with third grader, just to be safe). And I want to be able to make the gift for $5 or less. An added bonus would be that the gift actually be useful and make the recipient joyful instead of forcing them to politely say, “Oh, this is…interesting. Isn’t that nice.”

If you have an idea, take a picture, write detailed (but simple – bless you) instructions, and email them to me. My younger boys and I have a sack full of project ideas we’ll be working on this week. If any of them actually turn out – and they totally should because I did invest $2.97 in a new glue gun today – I’ll be sharing my ideas with you soon.

Stay tuned during the next few weeks for these Homemade Gifts for Less Than $5 tutorials, plus plenty of yummy new recipes for the holiday season.

Ahhhhh, recipes. That I can do. Don’t worry. I’ll keep my new glue gun out of the kitchen….

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Save Money By Giving Gifts in a Jar

December 12, 2013 by Laura Leave a Comment

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Remember all the fun ideas shared last year when we featured 12 fun Gifts in a Jar? Here are all the links for you again!

1. Applesauce Bread
2. Cranberry Biscuit Mix
3. Steak Rub
4. Homemade Bubble Bath
5. Caramel Sauce with Apple Basket
6. Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffin Mix
7. Apple Crisp
8. Peppernuts
9. Santa’s Snot
10. Cranberry Pecan Granola
11. Whole Wheat Pancake Mix
12. Fruit and Nuts Trail Mix

My personal favorite, for the jokester in your life:

Santa’s Snot

For more ideas, don’t forget to download our FREE Gifts in a Jar eBook!

Be sure to Download Your Free Gifts In A Jar Tags too!

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12 Days of Gifts in a Jar…Begins Tuesday {Get Your Free eBook Now!}

November 25, 2012 by Laura 11 Comments

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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!

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