Grateful Jar

Have you heard of the grateful jar?  You take a jar and for a year you fill it with remembrances of moments during the year for which you are grateful.  I'm going to include a small note pad and pen along with the jar.  We did one last year and kept the paper and pen by the jar so it was easy to quickly jot down a note when we thought of it.  At the end of the year you take out the papers and read over the items you wrote down.  It's a good way to focus on the positive things that have happened and helps to build thankfulness into our lives.  My ladies Bible study group will make one this week before our study. 

I took a clear jar here like you see on the left and colored the jar with alcohol ink on the inside of the jar.  Besides the one color, some blending solution was added to help spread the ink.  For the paper on  the lid, some double sided adhesive was punched with a Marvy punch and placed on the middle part of the top.  Then the paper was punched and placed over the adhesive. A stamp by Sweet N' Sassy was inked on the paper.  Then a coordinating ribbon was tied around the lid.