Stefanie Ackerson, March, Date Jar

My project for March was to make a date jar.  I knew that March was going to be a crazy busy month for me at work, so I wanted to keep my project to something fairly simple that I could finish in a single day (or better yet, a single hour!).  It was getting close to my one-year wedding anniversary (April 13th) and my husband and I were already running out of ideas for creative weekly date nights.  Most often we find ourselves just going out to eat or popping in a movie or something like that, so I wanted to make a date jar for us to contribute fun date ideas to "keep the romance alive" without breaking the budget.

Last year I was reading an issue of the LDS Living magazine and saw a little blurb about a list of creative date ideas created by Six Sisters.  I had cut out the advertisement and stuck it in a mason jar I found at a dollar store and promised myself that I would someday make it into a cute date jar.  Of course, it just sat on a shelf for the rest of the year, until I pulled it out again a couple weeks ago to finish the project.

I'm almost embarrassed to admit how ridiculously quick and easy this was to do... I went to LDS Living online and found the article from Six Sisters Stuff titled 50 Cheap and Fun Date Ideas.  All I did was copy and paste the list into Microsoft Word, adjust the formatting, and print it out on colored paper.  Then I cut them into strips and stuck them in the jar.

To make it look like I'd gone to a little more work, I topped the jar with a white paper doily and a glittery pink heart from my haphazard scrapbook supplies bag.  Ta-da!  And there you have it, a very simple but functional date jar.  I figure Paul and I can add more ideas to it as they come to us.  We've already stuck in a couple of free passes we've received to some hot springs and a fun park near us.  This is going to be our first week using it, and I can't wait to see what we pull out first!