Which Craft for Mass Production?

[kimmie]

Boy, lots of great ideas here! Thanks all!!!

and Hello!

[sunshine]

[babetteq]

one of my old standbys is sundried tomatoes, and oil& vinegar in baby food jars. I fancy the tops up and they're pretty.

You need as many roma tomatos as you can find (depending on how many people you have to give them too) A bottle of oilive oil (if it's a tight year, I mix olive & canola 1/2 & 1/2) A few sprigs of fresh basil (from the produce department) and garlic.

tap the tops off the tomatoes and slice them lengthways in half. Put them cut side up on a baking tray.

srpinkle TONS of salt on them. Like so that there is a crust.

Turn the oven to 150.

Go to bed.

In the morning, they should be pretty shrivelled.

Place them in your clean, sterilized babyfood jars. fill with oil, add a leaf or two of basil, a clove of garlic. They'll be ready to eat in 2 weeks.

In other babyfood jars put half balsamic vinegar, half olive oil. close it up tight.

I put them together and give it to people as a mediteranean treat in a jar. Something different, yummy, slightly exotic. for good friends, I throw a little feta cheese pack with it too.



Christmas ornaments are always good for quick and mass produced. Salt playdoh (I dont' have the recipe on me but very easy to find). roll out and cut into shap you like.

Dry in a low oven overnight (like really low -or on top of a radiator). Paint, and decorate as you like. Easy Idea = cut into star shape don't forget to make a hole at the top for stringing) once it's hard adn dry, paint it red. Hot glue gun a string of pearls (found in the thrift store) around the edge. Glue the star to the centre of a paper doily. Paint with glitter. Voila. Or you could, instead of painting it red, do a decoupage of christmas themed stuff onto it.

babs