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.

 

Oh sorry….was the click, click, click, click bothering you??

 I apologize. I gave my mom a couple of these scarves for her b-day a few weeks ago and a bunch of the ladies in her building have been asking where she got them.  When she said “my daughter makes them”, they were all excited.

I’ve been enlisted to make a bunch and bring them over for the ladies to peruse.

 

When I heard the overnight low forecast for last night, I decided to pick the rest of the tomatoes off my 12 plants. 
Now I have a plethora of green babies that I’m hoping will ripen over time. 
Any hints on helping them along??

 

I’m really happy with the way all the random fabrics from my scrap bin came together in this American Girl doll sleeping bag.

 

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