DIY Christmas

My sister and I decided to make some of our Christmas gifts this year. We decided to take the citrus fruit from our backyard that Filipinos commonly use in their cooking (Kalamansi) and infuse it into some vodka to give to our cousins.  We picked the fruit and boiled some mason jars in preparation. In order to decorate the jars, we stopped by the craft store and had a little too much fun:

We tasted the vodka after infusing the kalamansi in the liquor for a week and it was good enough to drink straight.  We included a little recipe for the cocktail using bitters and ginger infused simple syrup.  Below is a what the finished product looked like after we glued on our PIG DOG label:

We have an extra bottle for ourselves to use on New Years Eve so I'm ready for a Kalamansi hang over this weekend.  We got the instructions from this website along with the cocktail recipe.