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Spring Cleaning with Spring Gleaning: Guide to the Best Herbs to Grow at Home Right Now
Spring Cleaning with Spring Gleaning: Guide to the Best Herbs to Grow at Home Right Now with nine quintessential herbs.

Add a Spring To Your Business Steps
Whether by reimagining trademark scents, brand colors, or outer packaging that their products are delivered in, ensure booming success for your brand with these latest color, flavor, scent, and packaging design trends of 2021.

Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Cookie Mix in a Jar
Who doesn’t love cookies and who doesn’t love gifts? For Valentine’s Day, there is nothing sweeter than giving or receiving a handmade token of crafted care. So, to help you kick start your holiday gifting brainstorming session, here is Valentine’s Day red velvet cookie mix in a jar.

Why You Should Be Creating a Business Out of Glass Candles (or Any Business) at Home, Right Now: A Jar Store Customer Spotlight with Scripted Fragrance
The daughter half of the mother-daughter candle making duo Scripted Fragrance sits down with us to discuss a recent “CBS Sunday Morning” news appearance as well as strategy, candle making, and breaking rules for small business success.

A Leap into Spring: Groundhog Day Parfait (in a Jar)!
A Leap into Spring with Groundhog Day Parfait (in a Jar)! We’re all ready for our favorite seasonal critter to appear. But if you’re ready to make that groundhog appear ahead of time, then let’s get to it with this parfait in a jar!

Winter Indoor Houseplants to Grow on a DIY Wall Planter with Mason Jars
As we sit right in the crook of the winter season, the seasonal blues can surely hit. With less sunlight and shorter days, you can still bring some life into your world with plants. Yes, you can still grow and have houseplants in January by picking seasonal varieties! First, let’s explore creating a DIY wall planter with mason jars nearby a window in your living room or other open space of choice that gets the most sunlight in your home, then get to picking the best winter indoor houseplants to seed and grow in the wall planter!

Organize Your Home with DIY Mason Jar Organizers
In honor of Organize Your Home Day, or if you’re just looking for ways to optimize your surroundings, here are some DIY mason jar organizers to start implementing all around. Freshen up the down winter season with some environmental changes.

Winter Bubble Bath in a Bottle
In honor of Bubble Bath Day, boost your mood this winter with this DIY bubble bath recipe. We propose the following scents to offer a bit of a spring (literally, using a spring mint aroma) and bounce.

DIY Chore Chart with Mason Jars for a New Year, a New You
The New Year is a time where we all rejuvenate and revamp our personal and professional lives with new changes and goals that will push our accountability and productivity. Let’s explore this DIY chore chart that can not only work for your children in helping them get their work done around the house but also for yourself in tackling your goals! In that case, call it a DIY job chart or a project management board in 3D real-time.