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Christmas Cookies in a Jar

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These cookie mixes in mason jars will be a big hit with everyone!Follow the steps below to make your own cookies in a jar. Gather the basic supplies, pick a recipe below, and fill your jar; and then use my suggestions or your own ideas to embellish your jars.

These cookie in a jar mixes, complete with recipe gift tag, were loved by everyone on our gift giving list! Be creative when you make your jars, and add your own finishing touches!

Gathering Supplies

 

  • Quart Size Canning Jars with Lids
  • Scrap Fabric
  • Ribbon
  • Glue
  • Paper
  • Recipe and Required Ingredients (below)

 

Filling the Jar

 

  1. Thoroughly wash and dry the jars and lids.
  2. Pick a recipe from below and gather your ingredients.
  3. Use the instructions and tips from the recipe you choose and fill the jar!

Decorating the Jar

 

  1. Fabric: Cut a circle out of the fabric that is 6 – 8 inches across. (I traced around the top of a bowl!) Place the round section of the jar’s lid on the jar and center the fabric on that. Screw the other section of the lid in place to hold the fabric. Fluff out the fabric where it comes out from under the lid. 
  2. Recipe: Print out your choice of the printable recipe card/gift tag that goes with the recipe you chose. Trim closely around the recipe and graphic. Put a small piece of scotch tape on the upper right-hand section of the ‘Printable Gift Tag’ recipe (right behind the top edge of the graphic). This is to give it a little extra strength. Use a hole puncher and make a small hole in the taped corner. 
  3. Ribbon: Cut an approximate 3 foot piece of ribbon. I actually used 2 pieces of ribbon with colors that matched the fabric. Thread the ribbon through the hole in the ‘Printable Gift Tag’ recipe. Wrap the ribbon around the metal of the jar lid and tie it into a bow. Secure in place with a small dab of glue behind the bow and in the back.

A Christmas Garden

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There is a story told of a magician who conjured up a garden in the winter time. The wand of the wizard, however, is not necessary to disclose even in a northern climate in the cold months the beautiful contents of Nature’s world. The varieties of evergreen, pine, hemlock, fir, cedar, and larch provide a variety of green foliage through the dreary weather. The rich, clustering berries, besides their ornamental character, furnish food for the snowbirds. The Christmas rose, wax-like in its white purity, will bloom out of doors long after frost if a glass is turned over the plant on cold nights. The ivy remains glossy, its green berry another addition to our winter bouquet.

Farther south, but still within our United States, the scarlet holly grows in luxuriance. So full of holiday association is this tree that its branches are carefully transported a thousand miles for use during Christmas week. Its crisp leaves, lively color, and happy sentiment make the holly, pre-eminent as a winter ornament, prince in our Christmas garden.

A contrast is furnished by the delicate sprays of the mistletoe growing upon the limbs of the oak, elm, and apple trees. The white berry attaches itself, curiously enough, without roots of any kind, and becomes an enduring plant.

Best Gift for Christmas and St. Valentine’s Day

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Replica handbags are the perfect gift for the special woman in your life for Christmas or St. Valentine’s Day. Not every woman can afford thousands of dollars for an original designer handbag – but every woman wants to feel like a star! Replica handbags are the perfect, and affordable, solution for making your special lady feel stylish and loved. No longer does your budget have to limit you when looking for a Christmas or Valentine’s gift for someone special in your life. Quality replica handbags are the perfect solution.

In the past, replica bags were considered inferior to the real thing. Today, replica handbags feature the same quality materials and workmanship as the original – the only difference is that replica handbags are affordable. Stars pay thousands of dollars for original designer handbags, sometimes over $10,000! Every woman dreams of walking around as stylish and fashionable as the stars, and replica handbags provide an affordable alternative. Just as stylish, just as fashionable, replica handbags offer the same quality as designer handbags without breaking the bank.

Searching for a gift to impress your loved one is not always easy. You want to choose something that will enhance the attributes that you love and that will provide hours of beauty, fun, and functionality. Replica handbags are a great choice for gifts because they are affordable when compared to original designer handbags and they offer the same quality and features that have the stars raving! Replica handbags are a mirror image of the originals, so perfect in detail and quality that it is hard to tell a replica from the original.

If you are looking to impress a special woman in your life, give her something that she sees sported by her favorite Hollywood star, without having to mortgage the house. Designer replica handbags offer an affordable solution to the old-time problem of making that special someone in your life feel pampered and loved. With the gift of a replica handbag, you will be the star! And, the best thing about it is that she won’t believe you when you tell her it’s a replica – the quality and workmanship are so fine that she, and all of her friends, will think she has the real thing.