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you could make mini Christmas puddings with a little trinket inside or seasonal chutney/pickle to match cheeses and charcuterie, cover with cellophane and ribbons.


- make your own flavoured sea salts, rosemary is lovely with it.


- candied nuts/fruits/sugared almonds/jellies.


- 'retro' sweets or jelly beans in Christmas colours.


- make Christmas table decorations using flowers/leaves/cinnamon sticks/berries etc.


- make scented bath crystals using essential oils.


- buy individual beads/jewellery-making kits to go in each.


- decorate them using coloured paints for glass, use wire so that they can be made into hanging decorations for tea lights.


good luck.

katie, how'd you keep all that stuff inside them?


I use mine lined up on the windowsill with nightlights in, interwoven with christmas baubles and garlands, for very evocative Christmas decorations. But am keen to know what else I could do - frugal Christmas this year.

ditto Rosie.

But Gu is on special offer at Sainsburys.....

I wonder if I could use them to make bird feeders- mix fat and seeds in? not sure how relatives would find that asa xmas present though.

The seasoned salt sounds good but I am not sure it will last that long?

rosie I used jam jar cellophane covers and elastic bands for keeping stuff for me but for gifts you can keep contents inside using same method just add ribbon/twine/string and other material like muslin or coloured cellophane wrap. I got lots of stuff like this from the lovely AJ Farmers shop on LL. also similar from amazon, lakeland etc.


you could use gift wrap paper cut out into circles, secured with coloured bands instead of the patterned jam jar covers to make it less cath-kidston polka dot and flowery style.


(PS - just thought of another, how about making up batch of spice mix/bbq rub to decant into jars with not-so-secret recipe on label and if you don't want to make flavoured sea salts, flavoured sugar is way cheaper -mint sugar, lavender sugar, vanilla sugar, cinnamon sugar)...I will stop now.

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