I have always like to make myself gifts for my friends when the time comes, I feel that bought gifts are a bit less impersonnal than the homespun ones. I personally love gourmet gifts, I can't explain exactly to my husband the difference between an oil from the super market or an oil imported from some mediterranean country, well I guess the real deal gets seal by the presentationt. With that in mind, I decided to reuse what I already got and turn it into a great affordable gift
I went to the store and got a regular virgin olive oil, poured into a recycled( pink lemonade) glass , the bottle already comes with a cork attached, I cut some aromatic herbs from my herb garden, washed them and put them in the oil ( rosted garlic or even fancy pantsy truffles can be added), for the decorative part , I reuse and old tag and found an string ball to secure it to the bottle. This is my easy way to "make" a home spun gurmet oil. Oil- $8.75 for the big bottle, I only used half $4.37
Herbs- $0 for me, but if you buy it it's around $2
recycled tag, card, or whatever $0
A pice of yarn, hemp, string $0
recycled old glass bottle $0 = 6.37
This is quite decorative as much as it's useful, you can tell that I need to be resourceful to decorate a vinyl countertop, ohh I love military housing, gives me tha chance to use my brain to find ways to decorate. Everytime we move it's a challenge to reuse one old glass bootle.
Love flavored oils but what caught my eye is the vignette with the cute little bare lamp shade, adorable! Mary
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