Canning fancy giveaway: Riverdog Prints

This spring, as I was packing my suitcase full of jams, pickles and preserves, heading out to the West coast for book tour events, Cyn sent me a tweet @reply to the photo of 15 jars stacked tall in my suitcase. She mentioned that my jars looked a bit naked and she had just the thing for me. A couple weeks later, when I returned home, I found a little envelope of wonderful in my mailbox. Cyn owns Riverdog Prints, an eco-friendly, sustainable paper/packaging & pet-partnered print and card shop.

I fell in love her tags (which can be sticky or not, depending on your preferred jar labeling tactic); I used up my little round inserts nearly right away. I’ve coveted and squirreled away my little rectangular gift tags.

Photo provided courtesy of Cyn Thomas

When I met her IRL in Northampton MA (she drove in from CT!), Cyn was kind enough to offer two of my blog readers sampling of her canning labels and tags. Even non-canners can enjoy these, since she has cute tags that are blank and will hang from any kind of gift pack you create.

Photo provided courtesy of Cyn Thomas

This will be a shorter timeline giveaway, so there’s time enough to get these to you hopefully before the holiday. Entries close December 15, 2011 at midnight CST.

To enter: post a comment below sharing with us any homemade holiday gift idea you plan to try this year (or next)!

To sweeten the deal, I’ll send both winners each a little jar of my tangerine marmalade to either gift or gobble up yourself. Winners will be selected by good ol’ Random.org, entrants accepted from US & Canada since Cyn is shipping these out of her own pocket. Thanks for understanding my awesome further-abroad folks.

p.s. if you don’t put your email address in the little box on the comment form (only I’ll see it, and no one else), then you won’t win.

Update on Friday, December 16, 2011 at 9:22AM by Kate

Congrats to lucky numbers 3 and 44, Patricia and Joanna!

Thanks all for reading and entering, happy holidays with all your yummy homemade-ness.

Comments

[Jennifer Wood]

I have been making large baskets full of cookies, fudge, and homemade teas for gifts this year. I just canning gars decorated for my teas and wrap it all up in decorative celephane. They are turning out lovely and I'm so excited to deliver them.

[Kathya Ethington]

Wow, this is amazing. Anyway... I love making and giving salted caramel sauce or granola. :)

[jannine]

This Holiday I'm giving Jam & Marmalade, and my new-found obsession - infused liquor (for the over-21 crowd). LOVE the labels!

[Amber]

I bought and canned a half bushel of jalapeños! Spicy gifts!!

[ten]

this year we're doing candies - peppermint bark, fudge, divinity, pralines, and chocolate covered pretzels (the kids especially like the pretzel rods covered with bright colors - they think they're light sabers)

[goldilocks]

Making flourless peanut butter cookies with bittersweet chocolate and fleur de sal. They are gluten-free, egg/dairy free and vegan so all my friends and family can enjoy!

[Kara]

This was my first year canning and I am so excited to share my homemade salsa from this summers garden with my friends and family!

[Robert]

Home made fudge sauce

[Linda Woods Taylor]

This year I did my own vanilla extract--delicious!--next year I'm going to try adding additional flavors to the vanilla. I'm also going to try to get enough raspberries from my miserly bushes to do enough raspberry jam to give away to family and friends!

[Candy from Candied Fabrics]

On top of the gifts I'm sewing for my nieces and tie-dyeing for my nephews, I make mini-loaves of cranberry orange nut bread for the folks in my department to enjoy. Usually I just write right on the foil - Cyn's tags are much prettier!