DIY Mason Jars: Thirty-Five Creative Crafts and Projects for the Classic Container by Melissa Averinos

From the back of the book:

With DIY Mason Jars, you’ll find everything you need to make one-of-a-kind creations with everyone’s favorite jar. Featuring step-by-step instructions and four-color photographs, this book will kickstart your creativity with thirty-five imaginative projects that will add a pop of fun to any room.

I grew up in a family where canning jars were actually used for canning. In fact, not only were they used they were kind of treasured. Everyone hung on to their jars knowing they would use them again and again. In fact, if someone sent you home with leftovers from a gathering in a jar they usually expected to get it back again.

I guess that is why this whole canning jar as a crafting material has kind of escaped me. Canning jars are for storing the summer garden for the long winter. Not for painting and decorating. But maybe…

Here are some details about the book:

• 35 projects
• Paper Back
• 171 Pages
• MSRP $18.95 USD
• Also available for Kindle

Chapters include:

• Mason Miscellany
• In the Kitchen
• Around the Home
• Fun and Festivities
• Useful Jars

The book starts off with a bit of history about the canning jar including a bit about the history of Mason, Ball and Kerr and moves on to the Mason jar as it’s seen today.

The first chapter is, as you might expect, full of projects for the kitchen. My favorite it the Salad Dressing Mixer and I’m certain I will have to make one of these VERY soon.

I like that the book is peppered with Crafty Hints and Mason Musings that give you more information about techniques, uses, and even recipes. I also like the quirky illustrations with their handwritten notes as instructions. But most of all I like that the projects are cute, practical and useful. Because while it’s fun to craft it’s also a fine thing to have a useful item at the end of crafting. Don’t you think?

DIY Mason Jars is available from the amazon.com widget below for $13.24 or on Kindle for $7.99.

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Disclosure: Book provided for review but all opinions are honest and my own.