Presents in a Jar

Presents in a Jar

I have always loved vintage kitchen ideas especially for gifts; something that is useful, fun and pretty. In my mind there is nothing better than an adorable cake stand and matching cake slice, lace cupcake cases, a lovely apron or an amusing salt and pepper shaker. One of my special friends is celebrating her birthday at the end of this week so I was thinking to myself “What should I give her?!”. Similar to me, she loves kitchen gadgets and anything vintage and unique so I searched around the shops thinking of ideas, and as I also like making my own presents I took ideas from things I saw, planning to do something similar.

One thing that caught my eye that I loved was a glass jar that was full of flour, sugar, cocoa powder and chocolate chips all layered and the idea is that you use the jar to make brownies only adding an egg and voila! Brownies all ready to eat, perfectly served with a cup of tea.

The only issue is my friend is gluten intolerant so whilst I loved this idea, I needed to adapt it. I know when we were shopping a few weeks ago, she bought one of these jars for her partner for their anniversary and she kept mentioning how much she liked the jars. It had suddenly hit me; I could buy an empty jar and fill it with things she loves!

I went shopping and bought a really nice mason jar and then bought a load of sweets, some old fashioned and nostalgic and others more modern and filled it to the brim, tied a ribbon round it and attached a vintage label – ta da! I then bought some of her favourite wine and some pretty jewellery and present complete!