After many hours in a hot field, many more hours in a hot kitchen, and maybe one more hour in a reasonably cool dining room I have adorable jars of jam that are perfect for giving as gifts or hoarding for oneself. Which is what I'm doing so far.
I scoured blogland for cute canning paraphernalia and ended up using labels from eat drink chic. (There are loads of others - check out the tags and labels from domestifluff, labels from A Sonoma Garden, and more labels from merriment design.)
I printed the labels on sticker paper to make it easy on myself.
The red checkered fabric was in my stash so I simply used my pinking shears to cut squares for each jar.
The 'homemade with love' tags were adorable but I didn't end up using them on the jars. I have to admit that I changed my mind about them because I didn't have the right kind of string for tying them around the jars and I didn't want to go to the store and buy some. 'The jars look so cute already,' I told myself and then I whipped out my camera and started snapping away.
Next on the agenda: raspberry and blueberry jam. How about you? Have you ever canned anything? Any suggestions?
Beautiful! They look awesome with the hearts and gingham, and to think I gave mine away without even a label...
ReplyDeletestan & I made grape jam from concord grapes we found on the side of the road. it was so much fun...and so delicious!
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