Thrifted Lemon Apothecary Jar

Ya’ll know I love to thrift store shop! I was out thrift store shopping the other day when I came across this HUGE apothecary jar, it was marked $4.99 with a green sticker. I was shocked because that was really cheap and a great deal, then when I got to the cash register, I saw that green stickers were half price!! Whoa, I am now getting this apothecary jar for $2.50!! WIN!! I walked out of there like I had stolen something, because I felt like I did LOL! They aren’t super expensive but $20 plus dollars for one jar is out of my budget. I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do with it, but as I drove home it came to me, I knew I wanted to fill it with lemons and greenery! I had the greenery but not the lemons….so off to Dollar Tree I went. Dollar Tree had no lemons just limes, 3 stores later and still no lemons. I decided to check prices at Hobby Lobby and lo and behold they has them for 9.99 a bag…ouch! However, they were on sale for 50% off, score! Then I came home to assemble my new to me thrifted lemon apothecary jar!

First thing I did was clean my jar and let it dry. then I cut small sprigs of boxwood that I had on hand, they came from Walmart for .97 cents, which is such a great deal also.

Once I had everything ready I just started filling the jar with the lemons and then tucking in the boxwood here and there in between. It was really easy!

I LOVE how it turned out! It is so bright, warm and happy! I am grateful that Dollar Tree was out of lemons, because the color and quality of the ones from Hobby Lobby were so much nicer! It truly made all the difference!