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It’s not too early, is it?
The last paper bag book (previous post) I made had more of a vintage feel.
For this one, I went with the typical red and green Christmas theme colors.
It’s filled with tags awaiting photos and memories.
I found some fun embellishments in my stash of goodies for the binding as well.
Beads, bells and trinkets give it fun texture and movement.
I feel like I’m starting to get my mojo back. It must have been lost in the yard…all the raking must have brought her back to me.

The other day, my mom said that she wished she had a Fall colors wreath for her apartment door. 
I took it upon myself to get something made up for her.
I salvaged everything including the straw hat out of the Fall decor/costume box. 
I think she’ll be  pleased.

 

On Saturday, a few families on the block got together to help harvest the apples from our neighbor’s trees. 
It’s a big job but the fruits of our labor really pay off.
This year 63 grocery bags of apples were picked.
The apples were all big and beautiful with very few blemishes or worms.
Amazing!

We took home about 6 bags worth. 

I set up shop in the garage so I could make a mess and not worry about it. 
Concrete washes quite nicely. 
 After countless hours of cranking the peeler, I ended up with 23 gallon size freezer bags of peeled and sliced apples ready for the next stage of processing.

So far I’ve dehydrated 10 trays of apples, 4 pans of apple crisp-ready to be thawed then baked and cooked up about 2.5 gallons of applesauce. 
And I still have a freezer full of bagged apples. 
I am going to have to can the rest of the applesauce I make since my freezer can’t hold any more.

 

Little J came home from school last week telling me that she was trading cards at school. She said her teacher wanted them to do this. I was confused. Usually trading cards are banned from school especially during learning time. 
Tuesday evening she shows me this….
AH! Now I understand. 
They are making ATC’s!!!!

How cool is that! Her art teacher got them started making the artitst trading cards then encouraged them to trade with their classmates.
It was interesting that she didn’t realize that I also made these, although it’s been a while.
  I pulled out my collection to show her that I traded them with artists from all over the world. 
We decided to make a trade ourselves.

 

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