Frugal Friday

Dry Ingredient Mason Jars,
Decorative Styrofoam Balls &

DIY Flower Vase Lamps

Super fun and creative gift ideas

I took advantage of this holiday : )

Dry Ingredient Mason Jars

 Peanut Butter Cocoa Cookies

FIRST

I found cute little mason jars with already

decorated tops at SAVERS 2 for $1. I bought

6 of them :)

THEN, I searched my cabinets to figure

out what ingredients I had 

FINALLY, I assembled to jars and created tags :)

INGREDIENTS

3/4C Flour

1/3C Packed Brown Sugar

1/2C CoCoa Powder

1/3C PB2 (powdered Peanut Butter)

1/2tsp Baking Soda

Chocolate Chips

THEY ADD:

1 egg

1/2C Butter

1tsp vanilla

TAGS:

On One Side:

"Just Add 1 egg, 1/2c butter, and 1tsp vanilla"

Other side:

Directions

- Preheat Oven to 375

- Blend Butter, Egg, and Vanilla

- Add jar contents, Mix well

- Drop dough balls on ungreased

baking sheet

- Bake 8-10 minutes

Decorative Styrofoam Balls

YOU NEED:

-Styrofoam ball (MICHAELS CRAFT STORE)

-Glue Gun

-Hemp String

- Burlap

- Newspaper 

and, LOTS OF TIME & PATIENCE 

NEWSPAPER DIRECTIONS:

-Tear little pieces of tea-stained

news paper

-Hot glue each individual

ripped piece onto styrofoam ball

- after THREE NIGHTS of tearing

and gluing, I finally finished. It was 

totally worth the time : )

HEMP STRING:

Fairly simple, start your hemp string on one

side finding your way around the styrofoam ball

lining each row closely to the previous

BURLAP:

- Cut strips of burlap 

- glue to the ball facing the same direction

- To cover the top of the ball where there is extra strip,

simply use burlap strips to make "flower petal" shapes and

hot glue to the top.

- Finish with a rolled piece of burlap as the middle of the burlap flower

(sorry for the lack of pictures!! )

Flower Vase Lamp

YOU NEED:

Lamp Shade (Antique shop $1 each)

Vase/base (Goodwill $2 each)

Lamp Kit (Home Depot $12 each)

Burlap

Ribbon (not necessary)

Spray Paint

Glass Drill Bit

Light Bulb

LAMP SHADE:

-I purchased these lamp shades from

an antique shop in Morris, IL

-I used stencils and black spray paint

on burlap to cover the lamp shade