Cards, Garden, More Yard Sauce, Chickens

My stepdaughter is an extremely talented florist and we scored one of her wreaths.  I can't wait to get it up on the house. I will move the one out front to our birdhouse or pumphouse so it can be seen when we pull into the driveway. 

I can't wait for the Christmas pageant on Sunday. I hope the snow stays away. Yesterday I was lucky to help set up so when the kids show up on Sunday it won't take as long.  It is one of the many charms living in a small town .

The first half of the day was spent grocery shopping with a sprinkling of Christmas shopping. 

Then home.

I got caught up on making cards. I panicked since I needed so many more.  I took items that were meant for gift tags and transformed them into cards.  I have made and sent closed to 40 cards. 

I took the drawers out of this cabinet and put them out in the bird house.  With 30 birds I felt they needed more nesting boxes to lay eggs. 

 Then I filled the regular boxes with new fresh straw. 

I received a bunch of yellow tomatoes. 

Time to make more freezer Yard Sauce.  I found the recipe over at The Pricillas. It's like spaghetti sauce but better. 

Used the last of our grown onions. 

I got two batches made today. 

I went out to check on the greenhouse.  It was been pretty cold and below 32*. 

I got a new rosemary Christmas tree (the last one they had).

And a striped tea rose plant. 

The girls came over to say hello when the dog and I went out for a muddy walk. 

We celebrated Our Lady of Guadalupe with a taco dinner tonight. 

More cards were made after dinner. 

Time for a hot toddy.  I will update the Jesse Tree tomorrow. 

peace 

Card making, crafts and more yard sauce made

Started the day early with card making. It always stuns me that we just start with paper and end up with cards. Shout out to my teacher Sherri. 

Can you see the "cotton" is puffed up?  It is with puff paint , heated with a heat gun to puff it up. 

Card 2 is a repeat card. 

Card #3 is gorgeous!  It is a beautiful Christmas card. 

Then more yard sauce is made. I got the idea from Pricillas  blog. The garden has been good to us this year.  I alter mine just a bit. Roast tomatoes, onions, garlic, zucchini with olive oil, salt, pepper, and oregano at 400* for 40 minutes with my oven. Then whirl the whole batch in blender or food processor.  I freeze them in quart bags. I got 4 quarts today. 

A quick Halloween craft. I have seen these all over the internet but most use plastic skull and have a tough time sawing them. 

First get a fake sunflower. 

I had a Styrofoam skull and easily cut it in half. 

Also used some moss. 

Hot glue the moss down and then hot glue the skull. 

I did have some smaller flowers and small skulls to do the same thing but simply hot glue the skulls to the middle of the flower. 

That's it. 

The last of the yard sauce is ready to batch up and freeze. I need to get back to it. 

peace