DIY | Date Night Jar

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Six years later, and Dan and I are no longer in a long distance relationship! Yaaaay! That means that we not only see each other each and every day but it means that all of those date nights that we could never do because of only being able to spend a week together every now and again can be finally popped in the schedule. Now, if you are anything like me, and you are just a tiny little bit of a Pinterest addict, you've probably seen this little idea floating about and pinned to more than a few peoples boards, but as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make one. It's easy to get a bit samey when you've been together for a long time and you tend to end up going to the same favourite places, doing the same little things so to avoid slipping into a bit of a routine, we both came up with a list and got to making... 


One of the best things about this little DIY? It costs barely anything... in fact, the jar we found when clearing out Dans room, and all I really had to buy were the lolly sticks from a local craft shop for around £1.49... I know! Bargain, right?! 


First, you need to list some little date ideas.... these can be whatever you like! We did a combination of silly, cheap or even free things like making forts and making our own pizzas to surprise Blackout nights. We also included some pricer ones like day trips to cities we want to visit, going out for dinner at restaurants that we want to go to and trips to our favourite eateries... I even popped some secret ones in there that Dan knows nothing about so that will be a cute little surprise when we pick it out. Be creative and a bit different, there are plenty of ideas on the internet but mix it up, thats half the fun! You might notice that some of these are day trips rather than date nights, so technically I guess you could call it more of just a date jar, but hey...


Next you need to take your lolly sticks and fill them with all of your date ideas, after a bit of trial and error, biro works a treat. Sharpie marker ink bleeds a bit because of the wood so it ends up looking a bit messy, biro on the other hand works much better! 


Next up I split the dates into two groups, all the cheaper dates and the free ones and the ones that would cost a bit more like the city trips and things like the Zoo and Alton Towers. I took my Sharpie markers and colour coded with some cute little hearts (it is a date jar after all!) so that we can choose whatever date we fancy according to our budget at the time! 


Finally, for a little bit of prettification,tie your string in a bow around the lid. Mine was just a length of pink and white bakers string that I bought a roll of to hang some Instagram prints on ages ago but a pretty ribbon or even just ordinary string or twine would look equally lovely. I made a label out of a circle of brown parcel paper and hand wrote it, although there are plenty of templates online for really nice printed ones. I thought hand writing it made it look even more homemade though. I got a bit Blue Peter and stuck it onto the jar with some double sided sticky tape (that way if we do ever want to reuse the jar again, we can just remove the label) although another idea would be to use a slightly thicker paper or card even and thread your string through so that it hangs. Voila... one cute little date night jar! 


6 comments:

  1. Nayzee15 August 2014 at 17:47

    What a fantastic idea! I love this!
    Renee x

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  2. Nicole Sage16 August 2014 at 07:18

    Aww this is such a lovely idea! Need to do this :) xx

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  3. daisychain16 August 2014 at 10:20

    This is such a cute idea!

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  4. Coco Cami19 August 2014 at 17:04

    Such a lovely idea :) I love your blog and I have followed you with Bloglovin, if you ever get a chance to check out my blog I would be delighted, thanks! Best wishes.

    Camille xo

    www.cococami.blogspot.co.uk

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  5. Aleesha Cocker12 October 2014 at 10:28

    Love this idea think it's great going to have to do it!! 😊

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  6. Paige Bryan18 June 2015 at 06:16

    I love his idea!! Definitely going to do it! Paige xo

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