Needing to try something new for Christmas Decorations, I went with rustic. I have always been a little partial to rustic anyway, and this just seemed to fit. The best part, it didn't cost me a dime.
Reed and I went out searching for pine cones. In Oregon, in the middle of winter, there is no way we were going to find dry pine cones. But we looked anyway. We found a bunch of closed pine cones, and they were soaking wet, but we picked them up anyway.
We came home and turned the oven on to 200 degrees and left them in there for an hour. The house smelled woodsy and the pine cones dried out and opened it. It was fabulous.
I found gold ribbon in my gift tag box . With a hot glue gun in hand I started making the jars.
Christmas Jars
Large canning jars
sugar
tea lights
gold ribbon
twine
branch off the Christmas tree
pine cones
Really, they couldn't be cuter and they look like and smell like Christmas. I used twine, more pieces off the tree and a cinnamon stick to wrap the napkins. (Next time I will buy cloth napkins for this, but I was so happy to not spend anything on this project, I couldn't bring myself to drive to the store to do that.)
