Saturday, 25 May 2013

The most honest cookie jar

♫ Battlelore – Buccaneers Inn

What a lazy blogger I've been. I suppose I've tried to be less lazy in real life (with little success).

A few weeks ago a friend of mine had a housewarming party. It wasn't particularly easy to come up with something nice to give to him; one one hand we'd been hinted that something edible would be nice, but on the other hand I also wanted to give something that'd last a bit longer. And this guy has a very elegant taste when it comes to décor, so I wanted to give something that'd look like "him".


The result: I purchased a glass jar, baked some white chocolate chip cookies and designed a sketchy blotchy poison bottle label. This was pretty much a sequel to the project I showed in the previous post. I used the same sticker paper too. The nasty thing, of course, is the fact that with the home-printed label (on a matte paper) the jar can only be washed very, very carefully on the inside. However, my friend got a spare label to stick wherever he wishes. :D


The poison label was also an efficient way to imply that everyone was eating cookies baked by me at their own risk. Cannot say they wouldn't have been properly warned!

6 comments:

  1. I love the label and the idea is great! Of course you are right that the label might not stand up to washing cery good. Could you maye seal it with clear varnish? Or glue some self sticking foil over it? It would suck to have the pretty label being detoriated...

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    1. Thank you! :) I thought of some protective measures like that but in the end I didn't have the time to carry out any of them. :x But at least I can print new labels to replace the old one if it gets damaged!

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  2. Hauska idea! Kaikki erikoiset etiketit ovat tosi virkistäviä. Ihan senkin takia olen miettinyt arkituoksun tilaamista jostain rapakontakaisesta indieperfuumilafkasta kun perus Sokos-pullojen ulkomuoto jotenkin tökkii, mutta voipa noita näköjään kätevällinen ihminen värkätä itsekin. :>

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    1. Kiitos. :) Etikettejä on aika näppärää tehdä kun ostaa vaan tarratulostuspaperia! Aina kiva kun jokin näyttää vähän omalta.

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  3. Ha ha. Cookies are poison indeed :). Your pictures are so nice, is it little glass tablets with clock faces in the background?

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    1. Thank you. :) And yesss, they are my precious flea-market find! http://quicksilversanity.blogspot.fi/2012/09/time-stands-still.html

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