Personalize your gift tags with cards made from old photographs. Use a hot glue gun to adorn the edges with lace, buttons, pearls, rhinestones, ribbons, or other embellishments.
Party In a Jar. Create a new holiday tradition and start hosting
an annual gift jar exchange party. Invite all of your guests to create and share new recipes for gift mixes. Ask each guest to bring two pre-made jars (decorated to gift), a dish made from their jar mix, and pre-printed copies of the recipe to share. Using a small sticker or dry eraser marker, mark one of the two jars each guest brings and place it on a table. Set their second jar in a large decorated box. After a fun evening of celebrating good friendship and yummy treats, have each guest draw a number for a gift jar. After everyone has sampled the recipes, have each guest write down their favorite dish of the night on a secret ballot and place it in a box. At the end of the night, reveal the results of the “Favorite Dish” contest. The winner takes home the big box of gift jars! Annual gift jar parties will ensure you never “put a lid” on finding new ideas or recipes to share as gifts. TEXAPPEALMAG.COM
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