Last week I canned my very first batch of strawberry jam, following the recipe and instructions on Pick Your Own. Thank goodness for canning instructions for dummies! I'm always worried that I'm going to poison someone. This jam will mostly likely be gifts for some of the folks at the school where Mr. Greenhab works. I'm also planning to make some of this apple butter from The Farm Chicks. Drool......
I've been going through some of my favorite blogs gathering ideas and making lists, so I thought I'd share some link love with you here.
By the way, have you joined Crunchy Chicken's Buy Hand for the Holidays Challenge? If not, check it out. She has issued a challenge to make it, buy it handmade, or thrift it. She also has many ideas and links listed for you.
Cozy Homemaking also has an enormous list of gifts to make in her Handmake or Buy Handmade post.
Going Green Mama has a great section from Christmas of 2008 labeled Homemade Holidays where she links to everything from food to hand-sewn gifts to wrapping options.
And you can always click on the Green the Season label below to see some ideas that I posted last year. I'll be sure to share more over the next two months!
2 comments:
Lovely jam! Any chance I can get a job at Mr. Greenhab's school? ;)
I have never really made Christmas gifts as I always wait until the last month or so, although I have given jelly that I made earlier in the season to a few relatives. However, if you keep posting about it maybe I'll get around to it...
I keep intending to make cookie and pancake mixes for gifts. I'd do it sorta like a store bought mix, with all the dry ingredients mixed and packaged in a mason jar and a recipe card with instructions, but I have yet to do it...
That looks gorgeous! I will have to check out your other ideas. I'm doing handmade for my family, the trick is finding out whether we're traveling to the inlaws or not and how to handle shipping if not. I have ideas percolating....
(And thanks for the link love!)
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