.....baby food jars.
As an avid crafter my little heart goes pitter-patter at the sight of these things. Though it took a couple months The Kid is now a baby-food eating champ. Well, as long as that baby food is fruit. And, as long as it is store bought baby food. Apparently someone does not particularly care for Mama's home cooking already.
We now have a plethora of baby food jars, which have set my creative juices flowing. All I want to do is grab them and go organize all the bits and bobs I own with them. I don't really have any un-organized bits and bobs, or even that many bits and bobs, but that's not the point. The point is that I now can organize them with these teeny tiny jars. Then I start on the slippery slope in my mind: Bobby pins! I can put bobby pins in them! And hair ties! And hair clips! And I can use them to hold up my eyeliner and mascara! And buttons! And, and, and.....and it is all downhill from there. (I made sure to add in that excessive amount of explanation points there so that you can get a clear picture of how freaking excited I get over these things)
But wait! They're not just for storing things, I can make crafts with them, too! My mind is just a-flutter with the possibilities.
Seems ridiculous, I know, to be this in love with baby food jars. But I am. And I am not apologizing for it.
Know any baby food jar crafts? Point me in their direction, please!
tiny terrariums, snow globes, spice jars,and these puppies:
http://www.housetohome.co.uk/room-idea/picture/playful-playroom-storage-ideas/9
I totally undersand your obsession with them,they are so tiny and cute ^_^
have fun lucky duck!
(I'm 18 and am not planning on having kids any time soon, so i will have to wait awhile for a stash of jars)
Posted by: Mireya | January 27, 2012 at 03:34 PM
I too have a small person (10 months old) who occasionally eats baby food, and I do mean occasionally. He'd rather eat people food :) And I have a hard time throwing them away because they ARE super cute and I have the same need to use them for organization of some sort. I feel for you!!!
Posted by: Lynne | January 27, 2012 at 06:50 PM
Dude, I have an entire pintrest board dedicated to mason jars, which was started because I couldn't bear to throw out the baby food jars we've been accumulating! I made a menorah out of some of them for Hanukkah, but so far haven't done much else.
Posted by: aja | January 27, 2012 at 07:43 PM
I'm with you on this! And my fiance hates it! I'm always trying to keep jars of all sorts... salsa jars, pickle jars, spaghetti sauce jars... and now that are baby is also eating store bought fruits and veggies i'm wanting to keep those jars. He's already given me a limit to the number of jars i'm allowed to keep. But i hate to throw them away; it seems such a waste and there is no where in our town where i can recycle them. What to do?
Posted by: andrea kiss | January 27, 2012 at 11:24 PM
I don't have a picture of this, wish I did. But my dad had a workshop in a small building attached to the back of the garage. He took the lid of the baby food jar and screwed it into the celing. Then he could just screw the jar into it and he had a whole celing made of jars, and he put his "bits and bobs" (screws, nails, whatever) in them. When he needed something he could just look up and unscrew the jar he needed. :-)
Posted by: Jill Schaefer | January 28, 2012 at 07:49 AM
I hoarded baby food jars with my oldest baby (my God he's 10 now) and was determined to use them some how...we ended up using them as center pieces at our wedding!! We filled them with sand, wrapped a burlap ribbon around them and then tied on a piece of raffia and put in some silk flowers. People took them home as favors then too.
Posted by: Joslyn | February 12, 2012 at 07:53 PM