My earliest mason jar memories were leaving my Grandmother’s house with jars full of pimento cheese and chow-chow, ready for summer sandwiches and cookouts. Eventually I got to help create the different treats that filled the jars, helping out in the kitchen and learning time-tested family recipes. A refrigerator shelf lined with these glass jars seemed perfectly normal. It wasn’t until years later that I understood the cultural significance of these jars and their contents. Surely everyone slathered an orange cheese mixture onto white bread for lunch! How odd to find out my college roommate from New Jersey had never heard of such a thing.
Nowadays you can find a mason jar in almost every room of my house- holding wine corks, flowers, candy- there really seems to be no end to their usefulness. And their knack for perfecting the décor of a room or holding a layered salad means they’ll be around for a whole new generation to adore. I love their resurgence in popularity; it makes me nostalgic and a little hungry for a good sandwich.
Our I Think I Can print was designed to pay homage to the mason jar and our warm fuzzy memories.

Photo cred: Smith Photos + Ink

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