Holiday Glass Canister Challenge: Gloves, hats and mittens jar

Did you totally love Taumi's idea of making an advent calendar in a jar as a holiday-time centerpiece?  

Today I'm sharing my jar creation: a jar full of cozy place to store all those mittens and hats.  I was motivated by our constant loss of mittens and hats here at the time when we really need them.  This would also make a fabulous gift for an entire family as temperatures drop!  

PS, this is the soundtrack song to this project :)  You must listen to it while you make it:

Don't have a cricut?  No worries, search "deer template" or "deer color page" and you can use that as a guide to hand-cut the shape from your glitter paper (just fold in half at the nose and don't separate!).  TRUE STORY: you can totally change this up and glue a cheap snowflake ornament in the middle instead of the deer, I came close to doing that myself, but I'm a sucker for deer!

Glass Canister Challenge: Advent Calendar In A Jar

One of my most favorite of favorite and versatile items (across all genres of gifts, home decor, storage & organization) is the 2 gallon Anchor Hawking glass cookie jar/canister.  These fabulous jars sell for a mere $9.99 at our local walmart and only $12.99 at Target, and the possibilities of what you can do with them are really quite endless.  

I thought it would be fun to call on the two craftiest peeps I know and give them the challenge to fill or transform one of these jars for the holidays (and of course I couldn't resist doing one too!).  I'll be sharing their and my fun jar ideas over the next several days!

First up, we have Taumi.  

  

 So, Taumi transformed her jar into the coolest grown-up advent calendar/centerpiece around!  Here's how she did it:

Here are the links to geo boxes: http://ruffledblog.com/diy-geometric-favor-boxes/ and the larger triangle boxes: http://sassafras.typepad.com/sassafras/2011/04/technique-tuesday-with-marla.html

Here's the link to the shop where she purchased that great necklace!  

Thank you so much Taumi for sharing some of your Christmas Crafty Goodness!!  You can find more of Taumi's fabulousness over here on instagram :)