Birthday Presents for my Mommy

So my moms 50th birthday is coming up. She loves Queen Anne Chocolate Covered Cherries and of course everyone gets her some, so I wanted to get her something different. Well just so happened I was at walmart and they have all their valentine presents out. Amongst all the stuff I found a display of Hershey Kisses chocolates, my favorite are the kisses hugs and as I was looking for some for me, when I found a limited edition CORDIAL CHERRY KISSES. I just new she would freak when she saw them so I bought her a bag. Later on that day I was at the Bulk Barn getting some valentine candies for cupcakes when I came across Jumbo Chocolate covered Cherries and I'm not kidding when I say jumbo. These things are like 2 inches around! Well keeping with the cherry theme I bought her some of those too, except who wants to give a gift of chocolates in a bulk barn bag so I needed to come up with something else thats when I got this bright idea.

 

Thats right Mason jars. My mom loves mason jars she even collects the older ones. The best thing is its reusable and they keep everything fresh. I wanted to jazz them up a bit so I had previously bought a new pad of scrapbook paper for another project I'm working on (which I will post about later). Inside this great cardstock scrapbooking paper pad was an assortment of tags for gifts, cards, recipe cards and you name it. Here is a look at it

Anyways, so I took a piece of border and wrapped it around the centre of the mason jar and secured it with scotch tape. Then I picked a tag I liked that matched with the border and labeled it with what was in the jars.

 I got so carried away with labeling the mason jars, I labeled jars in my pantry and my jars on my kitchen counter. They are perfect........................SIMPLE, FUN and FANTASTIC.