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Sara is an architectural designer turned work-at-home Mom. She lives in New Jersey by way of New England and New York, with her husband and 3 kids under 8. She loves design, being creative, and spending time with family and friends. She loves checking out local businesses and eats and being apart of the local farm to table community. Continue Reading
Spring and Easter Recipes Collection – We have gathered a list of Spring and Easter-themed recipes on Life’s Little Sweets, including cupcakes, candy, snacks, and more!
These Fresh Spring Rolls have vermicelli, cooked shrimp, carrots, cucumber, basil, mint, & cilantro all wrapped up in a rice wrapper. They are delicious when dipped in our easy peanut sauce recipe, plum sauce, or your favorite dipping sauce.
Whether you’re looking for warm soup recipes for the change of seasons, or comfort food to keep you company during the refreshing days of spring, you’ll find plenty of food inspiration here!
Nettle Pesto has foraged, wild, stinging nettles (Urtica dioica), fresh garlic, extra virgin olive oil, Parmesan cheese (or substitute vegan Parmesan cheese, if vegan), Kosher salt, and fresh ground black pepper. It's vibrant, vegetal, and loaded with vitamins and minerals. Try this Nettle Pesto on your favorite pasta, on toast and it's a great sauce to go with chicken, fish, meat, or vegetables.
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What do you do with that dried out Christmas tree, wreath or garland?
Make DIY Pine Mason Jars of course!
This resourceful DIY makes a wonderfully scented keepsake of winter holiday memories.
Even if those decorations are long gone, just use dry pine twigs, to enjoy the fragrant scent of pine in your home!
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A little before New Year's Eve we took down our Christmas tree and decorations, one of them was a DIY Christmas Garland. The garland had been up for about 2 weeks and the dry and fragrant smell of Pine smelled too amazing to throw out into the compost pile. ⇒ Enter resourceful DIY idea!
We gathered some pretty twigs and lots of aromatic pine needles, arranged them in 32-ounce Ball mason jars. We had them displayed in the living room for a while and now they are in the guest bedroom. They can be uncovered whenever someone wants to smell the scent of the winter holidays and remember those sweet memories namely me.
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I added several mason jars that I like to use to my Amazon aStore under “Containers & Mason Jars" category. For this post, I used the Wide-Mouth 32-ounce Ball Mason Jars. It’s very useful to have an variety of mason jars on hand – just in case – preppers unite! Explore my Amazon aStore to see all the tools and ingredients that I like to use in my kitchen.
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Agnes says
What a great idea! Would be a fun project to do with my niece.
Sara says
Thank you Agnes, I am so glad that you like it, it is a fun activity to do with children - my daughter enjoyed it very much! Thank you for visiting!
Anosa says
What a brilliant idea, though I tend to have plastic Christmas trees I wouldn't mind having s proper one this year so I can later do this DIY
Sara says
Hi Anosa, I have 2 plastic Christmas trees too, 1 of which is a hand me down, so I hear you. This would totally work for a wreath, garland or just pruning branches and drying them from the yard, thank you for visiting!
Valerie Robinson says
I love this! I bet it smells great too! Would have been nice to do after Christmas with an old Christmas tree.
Sara says
Hi Valerie, yes! I am all about recycling anything possible instead of just throwing something away 🙂
melanie says
Those are so cool. Do you think if you poke holes in the top you would still be able to smell them? I love the smell of pine and would love to have those around my house to keep it smelling nice.
Sara says
Yes, you can do that or use some fabric or gauze with the mason jar lid to keep it open all the time.
Zoe Alicia says
Oh my gosh this is so simple yet decorative. I absolutely love it, and definitely want to make one of my own now 🙂 x
Sara says
Hi Zoe, I am so glad that you like it!
Elizabeth O says
That is such a wonderful idea and a brilliant creative gift idea. I might fill some Mason jars with all the pine around my neck of the woods. 🙂
Sara says
Yeah, I think these can be like little time capsules to save memories and your favorite things. I love your idea of filling them with your favorite natural things from your local forest 🙂