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Jar Mixes

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Homemade Bath and Beauty Recipes

Bath and beauty products that you make yourself to give as gifts are more personal and meaningful than their expensive commercial counterparts.  Carefully chosen oils, herbs, fruits and spices allow a wide variety of fragrant concoctions, while common ingredients such as epsom salts, baking soda or oatmeal are easy to work with and readily available.
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Soups in a Jar for Gift Giving

If this photo of two soup mixes looks familiar, it might be because you saw the original recipes at http://www.allfreecrafts.com/giftinajar/soup-mixes.shtml, or even before that, in 2001, when I had a domain hosted by the now defunct Webseed network, called EasyHomemadeGifts.  I designed these recipes - one (on the left) for Chicken Noodle Soup and Minestrone (on the [...]

Gifts in a Jar Recipes

Gifts in a Jar are one of the most versatile homemade gifts that you make.  Many are easy and inexpensive to prepare, yet they look attractive and suit a useful purpose for the recipient -whether it’s providing a tried and true recipe for hot chocolate, a new taste experience with spiced tea, or providing all [...]