WishJar provides a beautiful interface that lets you collect and view your wishes any time you want. With WishJar, you’ll move your wishes further along the path to fruition, because it’s common knowledge that a wish that is written down is more likely to come true. This vintage-inspired bottles are made of high quality clear glass, they are perfect for storing liquid, such as oils, perfumes, you can also fill these jars with spices, candy treats, bath salts, herbs, seeds, coffee, tea, sand and any other extra-special wedding favor that plays into your theme. Guests can use the included heart-shaped cards to write sweet notes, and then place them in the glass wish jar to serve as a memento of your special day. Capture all those future wishes, hopes and dreams and happy memories with a Top Shelf Everyday Wishes Wish Jar. It's easy to use and enjoyed by all. Simply fill out tickets with all of your personal wishes, future ambitions, and fond memories and place in the decorative wish jar.
My good friend Steve Lambert has written an article about Why Facebook is a Waste of Time – And Money – for Artists and Non-Profits. Ever wonder why your post reach is always lackluster? Essentially if you want your post to reach your fans, the fans you already have, then you must pay to boost a post. When I found out about this I felt like I had been duped, and you should too. All the time that people spend working to promote our work as artists has been wasted. It’s time to do something different. These companies have way too much influence on our culture and the way we put ourselves out into the world!
Pretty amazing!
Bricolage – Keri Smith from Lucky Treehouse on Vimeo.
I am finally able to share this with you! After doing the festival circuits a little film I made with my friend Mike Schwartz is having an online release. Enjoy. (Italian version coming soon).
“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one’s own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less and less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, and shares. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced or placeless citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers…
Thus, although we are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else’s legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make. What would be the point, for example, if a majority of our people decided to be self-employed?
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth – that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community – and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Steve Lambert is doing something very important. If he wins the ArtPrize $200,000.00 he is giving the money away. Read his story about it. YES Steve!
“I did not set out to design a geodesic dome, I set out to discover the principles operative in Universe. For all I knew, this could have led to a pair of flying slippers.”
–Buckminster Fuller
(This relates somewhat to the book I am working on.)
I recently said no to a contest featuring my books in a popular teen mag. The prize was some postcards of mine that were completed by celebrities. I turned it down because I feel that our society has an unhealthy obsession with celebrity culture, and a need to glorify superficial qualities in people (mainly appearance) and make them into role models. This is a terrible message to send to teenagers, who are often in a difficult and challenging place emotionally, and feeling physically and socially insecure at the best of times. I was at that age. I’d like to start a movement where kids are able to see the cult of celebrity for what it is. The selling of fantasy, with a focus on “selling”, and a fixation on the superficial.
This week I read an interesting article that helped me to relax my “anti-celebrity” stance somewhat, (I believe the author is Alain de Botton, who founded the school). The School of Life posted “Why We Need Better Celebrities”, which talked about how humans have always had an inherent need for role models,
“Rather than try to suppress our love of celebrity, we ought to channel it in optimally intelligent and fruitful directions. A properly organised society would be one where the best-known people (the ones whose parties and holiday photos and clothes and new hairstyles we looked at most often) were those who embodied and reinforced the highest, noblest and most socially beneficial values.”
Aahhh, yes. Let’s start a new celebrity movement, one that seeks out people who kick ass in many different ways (who don’t just have a cool haircut, but also intellect and vision.)
Let’s also celebrate our own unique thoughts, perspectives and gifts! Let’s focus on genuine qualities in people, kindness, compassion, fortitude, determination, creativity, persistence, vulnerability, etc. Doesn’t that sound better?
For a good example of promoting solid role models, (and a genuine voice) I highly recommend Rookie Mag, they have been doing this very well for a few years now! (I so wish I had this mag when I was a teen.)
(Maybe I should revisit the contest idea, with a new approach. Hmmmnn. The way to influence culture in a healthy way is to ask for the changes you wish to see.)
I am VERY proud and honored to share with you a project I have been working on with the Post Carbon Institute. Myself and 11 other artists were asked to create posters for the Public Energy Art Kit. I also did a short video about the creation of the piece. (and I got to draw my bike). Yay!
Hi Creative Mamas! Are you ready to make this Christmas a wonderful and inspiring event for your kids and grandkids to remember for ever and ever? I have a little something to share with you that will make you super popular with your kids this Christmas season: A Christmas Wish Jar for kids!
Wish Jars How To Make
What is a Christmas wish jar?
A Christmas Wish Jar is basically a jar or a vase which you decorate with Christmas ribbons and colors and you fill it with Christmas wishes using wishing labels which you can download for FREE from the Free Resource Library
It’s super easy to make! You can use any size jar or a glass vase that you may have at home. It creates lots of excitement among kids because they feel free to write different Christmas wishes at different times. I find these jars super cool to give to my friends and extended family a month or so before Christmas.
It helps parents know what the kids are thinking in terms of physical gifts but it’s also an opportunity to wish for more thoughtful things such as spending time with a family member that they miss or wishing to spend Christmas with someone special 🙂
Present this Christmas Wish Jar to your kids when you hang the advent calendar. You can make your own DIY advent calendar for a crafty feel and get your kids involved in gift wrapping and making their own unique Christmas gift tags using these cool self adhesive felt templates.
What do you write in a wish jar?
I encourage my kids to write 4 wishes each. I also encourage them to write a variety of wishes such as toys, food, a sentimental wish or a wish for someone else. It’s quite magical what can happen when kids start to think about others in these holiday seasons.
How do you use a wish jar for kids?
Wish Jar For Retirement
I place our wish jar by the Christmas tree and let the kids put in their wishes when they feel is the right time. I include lots of wishing labels which you can download for FREE from the Free Resource Library. these wishing labels are great fun and it makes it super easy for us parents to know who wrote what 🙂
Wishing jar for kids ideas
Christmas Wish Jars are just one kind of wishing jars. There are many options. Here are some:
- Gratitude jars
- Birthday party wishing jars
- Tooth fairy wishing jars
- Easter Bunny wish chocolate eggs jar
Christmas Wish Jar Printable Templates
These are the Christmas Wish Jar Templates that will allow you and your kids to create beautiful jars all ready to be filled with Christmas wishes and love! Get your kids organized, gather all the necessary tutorial materials, download the templates and be ready to spend an awesome afternoon getting your house ready for Christmas 🙂
How to make a Christmas wish jar Tutorial
Equipment and Materials
- Glass jar without a lid or small glass vase
- Christmas Printable templates and Printable Christmas Wish labels (available in my FREE RESOURCE LIBRARY— get the password for free by filling out the form below)
Before we start the tutorial I just want to share my favorite Christmas Pillow Tutorial using fabric scraps. Check it out here to learn a simple way to create a beautiful Christmas pillow that you can make using fabric scraps. It’s the perfect item to make together with this Wishing Jar 🙂
Step 1: How to start making your Christmas Wish Jar?
Gather all of your materials. I have chosen bright Christmas colors such as red and green in order to create that Christmas feeling that I am after.
Step 2: Preparing the Christmas adhesible felt templates
Download and print out the Christmas Printable templates and Printable Christmas Wish labels from my FREE RESOURCE LIBRARY. Cut around the star shapes with paper scissors.
This is the green adhesible felt sheet that I bought. It comes in an A4 size and has a paper backing.
Place your cut out star shapes on the paper backing of the felt sheet and trace around it.
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Trace all the different size stars so that the kids can get creative with their jars 🙂
Using the fabric scissors cut around the star shapes.
Step 3:
Peel off the paper backing and stick the star to the middle of the glass jar.
Prepare another felt star.
Grab your chosen Christmas Ribbon. Place it around the top rim of the glass jar and make its end meet. Stick the second felt star on top of the ribbon and the third felt star where the ribbon meets. The felt stars’ glue will hold everything in place.
Step 4: Christmas Wish Labels
Now fill the jar with the Christmas pom poms and the Christmas Wish Labels. I also added a few blank gift tags and held them with mini wooden pegs. I like to offer a variety of way for the kids and adults to place their wishes 🙂
The finished Christmas Wish Jars
This is our family 2020 Christmas Jar. It will be placed by our DIY fabric Advent calendar. I asked my daughter to fill the jar with her first wish.
She wrote: I wish to see my grandparents (I am hoping her wish comes true soon! We all love in different countries and with the pandemic we are kind of stuck ) However this goes to show that these Christmas Wish Jars are way more than wishing for toys which makes me really happy!
Download your Templates now and get started making your Wish Jar now!
Also you can place your Wish Jar by your Christmas tree which can be decorated with these cute fabric Christmas angels! They are a super easy to make Christmas craft for the kids!
Save this tutorial to you favorite Pinterest board!
Join the FREE 5 Day DIY Advent Calendar Challenge!