You pour your heart and soul into canning your annual garden harvest. Don’t let old, rusty canning jar lids take away from the appearance of your beautiful jars pickled beans and garden fresh salsa!
Mason Jar Crafts
Mason jar crafts and gifts are just part of my love of all things mason jars! Sure I love to can in them – but I love to give them as gifts, as decor and fun craft projects too. I am certain I am not the only one that loves them, so I collected some […]
Praise for the New Pint and a Half Mason Jar
Mason jars are hot, hot, hot on Pinterest, in stores, and in uses never dreamed of by their inventors. If you are interested in learning the history of Ball, Kerr, and Mason jars, the long and short of it is they are all very much the same jars now, but invented and popularized around the […]
Jar Sealers To Help Keep Dehydrated Food
Canning is not the only method for preserving those giant backyard garden harvests every summer. We here at the homestead love to dehydrate fruits and vegetables as well. Dehydrated foods are perfect for backpacking and camping meals, having an easy backup food sources for when you have gone though all your canned goods, and also […]
DIY Mason Jar Tiki Lamps
Recycle an old, unused mason jar and make one of these great tiki torch lamps to sit outside. Keep out the bugs and add this great vintage, mason jar feel to your yard!
Canning. And Stuff.
Some people get excited when they get a new phone, or computer game, or whatever. I get excited when I get canning jars, a jar funnel, and a jar lifter.
