past jar lives

image from the movie Past Lives

jar lore

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jar lore 〰️

A few years ago, I had been craving a new medium of art to explore. I was itching to make create some sort of functional art, an art piece I could carry around or use daily, something that was small and cute and could be shared with friends!!!

Then one day, I absentmindedly (stonededly) adorned one of my weed containers from the dispensary with stickers and paint. I stickered it with big bold letters that said GET HIGH OR DIE. I thought it was soooo cute that I made more for friends. Then it snowballed— I continued to make more, obsessively bought plain jars at thrift/craft stores, and started gluing anything and everything that I could find on them. I made so many that I started making dollhouses for them to live in. Eventually I had no choice but to sell them— they were taking over my house.

Since I have hoarder genes, I decided to offload these precious gemstones of jars in order to make room for more shit to hoard. To my surprise folks seem to steadily want to buy them, and I’m forever grateful because my ultimate dream is to live in a hobbit-hole-fairy-cottage and spend the rest of my days making art, with maybe a once weekly outing to the local post office to ship my jars out into the world. I guess you could say, stash jars became my calling 👽🍯

my first generation of stash jars :)

The funnest part about these is ANYONE can make them. You just need a jar, glue/hot glue, some doo dads and whatever else you want!!!!!!