Bottled Memories

To make a remembrance gift for your mother (or another loved one), you will need: a few miscellaneous objects to act as “fillers” in the jar (balls of yarn, spools of thread, fabrics, ribbons, laces, doilies, buttons, and/or large safety pins, etc.); a clean quart canning jar with a lid and a screw band; personal items (see following paragraph); a pen; a piece of fabric; a ruler; scissors; an elastic; a length of narrow ribbon; the gift tag from this page; glue; heavy paper; and a paper punch.

You will need to decide what personal items (with your parents’ permission) to put in the jar that would have special meaning to your mother. Some possible personal items might be: items when you were a baby (photo, bootie or shoe, rattle or toy, etc.) or any items that represent your mother’s (or other loved one’s) interests (old jewelry, photo of her, old eyeglasses, art brush, large needle and thread, artificial flowers, seed packet, golf or tennis ball, wrapped candy, measuring spoon, recipe card, etc.).