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\"canning-labels-dots-aquajar\"I’m having a little mini-obsession with the idea of canning. It all came about in an organic kind of way.
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\nI did a Blog Love Week<\/a> last year where I highlighted five of the blogs I was reading on a daily basis. One of those blogs was Small Measure<\/a>, created by Ashley English. Her current life of homesteading represents in reality so many of the natural, back-to-basics concepts I believe in. Shortly after I wrote about Ashley, I won the September giveaway of Fig & Thyme Jam from her blog. Every month, she had been giving away a canned item that was in her upcoming book, Homemade Living: Canning & Preserving with Ashley English<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.
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\nWe used the jam as she suggested: baked with a wheel of brie (minus the phyllo dough) and oh. my. goodness! The smell alone could have won an award. The sight of me and hubby hovering over that dish of heaven while we consumed every bit of it was shameful. I needed to thank Ashley with more than a handwritten note, so I designed some simple canning tags for her to use in spreading that joyous, homemade food-love to all the people. She even posted about them here<\/a>.
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\n\"canning-scallop-black\"I was hooked. I love making tags. And thinking about designing a whole line of them with matching stickers was exciting. Plus, these were to label food…
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\nhomemade<\/strong> food…
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\nfrom fresh ingredients!
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\nTwo obsessions married into one creation.
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\nI’m excited and a little impatient for my CSA to catch up with my plans for canning. I purchased Ashley’s book and am loving it so far. I can picture all my jars of foodie goodness lining a shelf or two in the pantry. I’m enchanted by the possibilities!
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\nIf you’re a canner (is that a word?) or if you know someone who loves canning, you can check out the tags and stickers in my Etsy shop here<\/a>. They will also be available on my regular site soon with some customizable options.
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\nHere’s to this paper nerd proudly turning into a canning nerd.<\/p>\n

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