Vacation Memory Jars

I love to travel!  As soon as I return from one vacation, I am planning the next one.  I mostly do beach destinations and have always collected my beach treasures in jars.   I now do jars for any destination I travel to, including my home city of Chicago.

Things that are great to save for the jars:

• Ticket stubs
• Napkins or match boxes from restaurants
• Little umbrellas from drinks
• Pieces of nature (sand, shells, pine cones, leaves etc.)
• key chains
• Animal figurines and other little trinkets
• Souvenir thimbles
• Photographs
• Currency from other countries
• Postcards

I buy my jars at the craft store, but reusing plastic jars from food can work as well.  I label them by tying a tag around the jar.  If you go to a destination more than once, you can add to the same jar later. 

Here are some examples (I didn't take pictures of all of them):

St. Maarten

Catalina Island, CA

Palm Springs, CA 

Wisconsin

Indiana

 Chicago

My Midwest shelf.  I still need to make a Michigan one.

 

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