WINTER COCOA more mason jar ideas

 

Here is your next holiday gift idea using mason jars.

 

Fill your cleaned jars with broken-up candy canes, marshmallows,

and hot chocolate mix. It took 12 medium length candy canes to half fill this jar.

 

 

 

 

Your candy canes could also be kept intact to act as a stir stick.

Get creative and hang them from a basket or tie them up with ribbon to each jar.

 

 

Any size mason jar can be used just remember the bigger the jar the more filling it will need.

Have fun creating these last minute gifts that will warm every ones heart and tummy.

 

 

Pick up thrift store wire baskets to transport your gift and display on the gifties kitchen counter.

 Embellish the baskets with ribbons and bows, or get creative a make

a fancy label with ingredient lists and instructions.

 

You could also stack your jars up in a tall wine bag left over from a wine gift last year.

Put those bags back into use for an alternative festive drink.

 

 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

 

 

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PAINTING MASON JARS

 

Annie Sloan Chalk Painted Mason Jars - custom mixed colors, sprayed, and waxed

 

Because I have a spray gun and a compressor I get to spray my glass canning jars

so it can go quickly however as with anything there are always draw backs.

 

When I want to change colors I have to clean my gun and get a new color set up.

If I were brush painting I could simply go back and forth with each color pot and brush.

When you spray you have a dedicated place to do it so everything has to move to a drying location.

When you use a brush you let the item dry right where you painted it.

 

I like putting 3 different jars together for flower vases.

You can use a single jar in the bathroom for toothbrushes, or cotton balls.

Pens and pencils hid nicely inside the wide mouth jars but you can still get them out easily.

 

 

George is getting quite good at waxing and had a hand in getting these jars ready for

visitors this weekend so we have various brands of these painted mason jars ready for your decor.

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