My First DIY Christmas Gift
Being a full-time grad student and working, Christmas is on a tight budget this year. That is when I came up with the idea of using sticviews custom stickers to help meet my DIY project needs: make awesome hot cocoa and decorate with fabric and custom stickers!
I started out for a search of the perfect hot cocoa - my mom uses this awesome recipe from Cooks.com, but we have a little family secret added to bring out the richness of the chocolate. Use your imagination to adapt the recipe!

Then I went to Handcock Fabrics in Plano to get my fabric for the lids. They were having a great sale: $0.99 for each Fat Quarter (18′x22′) and $0.50 for the ribbon! (I could have just bought 2 Fat Quarters and 1 ribbon strand, but I didn’t realize that till after I finished. And I wanted to have four different fabrics - so I’ll have to find something else to do with the fabric - maybe use as wrapping paper!

Then I mixed all the wonderful ingredients together. I had a hard time because this is a recipe for a large amount, and I didn’t have a bowl big enough. Next thing on my list is to get a larger mixing bowl! (I split the recipe into two bowls) I used two cup mason jars (from Target - four jars for just over $4.00) for the hot cocoa.

Now I have 12 mason jars ready for decorating! I started with sticking on the custom sticker I made. There are several types of free downloads on Living Locurto that I used for inspiration, but then I found one on Blonde Designs I ended up adapting one of the freebies and making it my own!

Then I cut out squares of the fabric (not an exact measurement) and secured the lids. Added the ribbon and there you have it! It makes a perfect gift for friends, family and co-workers! I spent about 3 hours total between mixing the cocoa, designing the sticker, and decorating the jars. (My only suggestion is to use a wire ribbon instead - mine were a bit hard to tie tightly.)

The best part about this is that the recipent won’t have to throw away the jar. They can reuse it because the sticker will come off clean after they are all done with the cocoa!
Thanks for reading my blog! Do you have good DIY projects that could use custom stickers?
Keep sticin’
Kat Farmer