Over the years, I’ve managed to talk a fair amount about how I label my canning jars. In most cases, I just scrawl the contents and date on the lid with a Sharpie. When I’m labeling dry goods in the pantry, I use that same permanent marker and write directly on the glass (it erases with a swipe of rubbing alcohol).
Sometimes, when I’m feeling particularly fancy, I’ll cut out labels with pinking shears and tie them to the jars with red baker’s twine. And of course, I talked a lot about labeling just before the holidays this year.
The most recent addition to my arsenal of canning jar labeling options is this lovely stamp from A Sensible Habit. Designer Brandy Schuman has a pretty little selection of stamps that are perfect for marking your goods with style and charm. You can use them in any number of ways, from hang tags to rounds of paper that you slip under the lid (it would also work really well on those circle-shaped brown paper labels that Avery sells
Now that I have this stamp sitting on my desk, I think I’m going to start putting prettier labels on my more giftable preserves, in the hopes that having them all dressed up will compel me to share more with my friends and neighbors (confession time: I keep far more of what I make than we can reasonably eat. It’s time to get those preserves out of my pantry and into the world!).
Thanks to Brandy, I have the stamp that’s pictured above to giveaway this week. If you’d like to enter for a chance to win it, here’s what to do.
- Leave a comment on this post and tell me about the person who most appreciates your homemade preserves.
- Comments will close at 11:59 pm on Friday, February 8, 2013. Winners will be chosen at random and will be posted to the blog over the weekend.
- Giveaway open to U.S. residents.
- One comment per person, please. Entries must be left via the comment form on the blog at the bottom of this post.
Disclosure: A Sensible Habit provided a stamp for me to use and photograph for this post at no cost to me. They’re also providing the giveaway unit at no cost. They did not pay for inclusion in this post and my opinions are entirely my own.
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My family appreciates everything I cook! But mostly I appreciate the chance to win this great giveaway.
My brother apprecaites my jam – I mailed him 4 jars not long ago.
my friend, Cathy. She makes almost everything from scratch and never spends a dime! She always appreciates something homemade.
The person who most appreciates my preserves is my husband. Barely a jar gets out of our house because of him!
My Mom appreciates my preserves the most so I do my best to keep her pantry well-stocked
My husband love my preserves, and is begging for strawberry jam this year. It’s just the two of us, but he takes the things I’ve made to work and brags about me. He’s so awesome.
My daughter loves any kind of sweet treat, especially my homemade ones.
My brother most likes my pineapple salsa. He pretends it’s no big deal, but really he loves it.
My husband. He has an autoimmune disease that makes it difficult for him to eat sugar, so I began canning no-sugar jams, or jams with alternate sweeteners, and now he can enjoy them!
I love giving my canned goodies to my husband’s son and daughter in law. They give great feedback and check out my pantry for what’s new every time they visit.
My husband, he’s very appreciative.
My three children appreciate my preserves nearly every morning on an english muffin or stirred into yogurt! Yum!
My friend, Michiko appreciates my new love of canning. She’ll “test” anything I am making and so far has liked all of it..
My dad loves my pear honey and preserves. So much so that he hides them from everyone else in our family.
my mom. because she taught me.
My friend Dorothy, who is 90 years old and is limited in what she can eat because she has very few teeth left. She loves my canned pears and peaches and applesauces.
I appreciate my preserves most.
My husband’s dad appreciates my canning the most. He is a widower who rarely gets home cooked food and this is a way I can mail him good food that will keep.
My dad is a big jam guy and devours what I send him, but he especially likes clean and simple flavors like raspberry, strawberry or mixed berries.
my hairdresser loves my peach preserves!
My husband loves my preserves… which is why so few of them make it out of my house!
My mom loves to be my quality control and official taster!
My husband is probably my biggest fan, I have to hide a few jars of everything otherwise they disappear too quickly!
My 77 year old dad lives with us. I do all the canning from the garden and applesauce. I use his moms (mygrandmothers )recipes for chili relish and pickles. Even though he has dementia he always says they taste just like his moms.Its amazing he really doesnt remember much, but he remembers these every summer!
My seven-year-old daughter.
my aunt and grandma….since they are the ones that taught me to love to preserve things!
thanks for sharing!
It’s sad to admit, but I think I’m the one who most appreciates them. I like my stuff pretty, though!
My aunt loves my preserves more than anyone! I try to ship stuff to her quarterly.
I made some seville orange marmalade last weekend and it came out wonderfully! I had never made marmalade before and my friend and I made 3 kinds, in the 3 traditional styles. Such a fun (and exhausting) day
This is a more difficult question than it seems. It might be a tie between my husband and a friend who also cans. (And I LOVE the stamp!)
My husband! My two year old would love it if I only made jam… <3
The person who most appreciates my canning is my husband! It’s great food and it saving on the budget!
My boyfriend’s grandmother appreciates my canned goods the most because she feels that it is a lost art and not enough people my age know how to do it.
my friend Marissa loves and appreciates canned goods. most often, I find other canners make a point to tell me that they liked a particular jam or jelly. (the stamp is awesome!)
My sister-in-law really likes the jam I make. She’s pretty picky about breakfast, so I’m glad to be able to give her something she likes.
My mom and sister are all about my jam!
My friends appreciate the things I make the most.
My husband!
What a neat giveaway, thanks for hosting it!
My delightful brother appreciates my preserves the most, by far. He will send me an email every time he opens a new jar to tell me what he is using it on or with. Just today he opened a jar of cantaloupe jam I gave him for the holidays, and he gushed and gushed about it.
I adore my brother!!
My coworkers always get a tasting of all my batches!
I think the person that appreciates my home canned goodies is my sister-in-law, Chris. I gave her a bunch of stuff a few weeks ago and she told me that she and my brother had used it all except one large can of pear butter that they are saving for when they have company.
I LOVE this stamp! The person who most appreciates my canning is my hubby! Such a good taste-tester!
BTW – I just made your strawberry jam with vanilla and lemon…wowza! What a great recipe!
The person who most appreciates my homemade preserves is my 9 yr old son. He has been eating home canned jams all of his life (including a stint with home canned babyfood
). He loves his jams and products made with jam!
My pickles have been well received this year, most especially by my pregnant co-worker who was stuck with the stereotypical craving.
My Aunt Charlene. She is the one who first taught me to make jelly from scratch.
It seems like my friend Kristine is the most appreciative; and she always returns clean jars!
My husband loves most appreciates my jams! Love the stamp, thanks!
Probably my husband loves my canned goods the most, because he sees the work I put into them. I do have a brother in law who lusts after my raspberry jalapeño jam, though!
All my sisters and my Mom. This year my daughter-in-law made a sweet pickle recipe of my Grndmothers that brought back a lot of fond memorys to my whole family.
That person is Pierre, my husband’s best friend. Even when he makes the 2 hr. drive over to see us by motorcycle he brings a specially padded box so he can take home whatever jars we’ll give him.
We gave him some gooseberry jam last time and he emailed my husband that week wanting to know what a gooseberry is and why we’d been keeping it from him this whole time.