Just stopping in for a quickie!

Its been a few days since I posted, but I have been busy! This week I worked at Zach's school, which was fun and exhausting.And last week I met a new friend in Kansas City for a play date, and that was fun for me. I am still working on the quilt but have halted cause I don't know where to go from where I am at. I am going to consult a few folks and some books to see what I need to do now.
I did start working on fabulous new bag for moi, and since Sharon sent me some fabric for Zach he wants some new pajamas.
I made a new flavor of marmalade I am calling Sunshine cause its pinapple and orange and its just darn good and sunny. Zach and I made our own peanut butter this week too, now I am going to crank out a few loaves of bread and I will be all set, for some PBJ's. Anyways that's all for now. I could really use some quilting vibes about now, so send em' if you got em'. Evie

Skirting

Okay I have tons of fabric and no summer wear, so when I finish the quilt, soon I hope! I am going to make myself so simple easy skirts to wear. I found a great link with lots of skirt patterns and I just wanted to share:
http://craftersjourney.com/free-skirt-patterns/
Anyways happy skirting everyone.

I went for a quick thrifting yesterday am, and here's what I found:

This giant jar filled with goodies for only $6.00, I would have paid that for the jar.
Here are the items outta the jar:


All kinds of neat little do-dads, and a snap thingy, to put snaps on clothes and such. Cool huh?
I don't know what I am going to do with it all but there is some nice thread in there too I am sure I will make good use of.

Garlic Jelly

Well its made and I am done. The house smells amazingly garlicky. I made a whopping 14 jars of this amber delight. YUM, I saved a little for us to have this weekend on some crackers with cheese. I found several ideas for cooking with garlic jelly and hope to try some of them soon.


And now the sad news.. Zach has taken over the computer and I am now competing for some darn computer time. Darn little stinker!

Our trip to the Nature Center

OKay..so I forgot I did have something quick to blog about..lol
I took Zach to the local nature center for a class about the rainforest. He declined to join the class..(yay, saving me the $3.50 it cost to go to the class). Instead for free we walked around and did some activites ans played in the preschool room it was awesome and fun!





OKay, I just want to say how much I love the prarie dogs OMG, they are just so darn cute!
I really need to get us out the door so I can make that garlic jelly today. toodles

What no post??

Okay so I have not posted in a few days..but I have been busy trying to sew that darn apron for Zach. It is giving me fits!! Nothing to blog about either. We made a cherry pie at Hy-vee the other day a free class offered there, and that was fun. Zach has taken up residence in some costume we got at the Social Service League, he thinks its a power ranger cotume, but I think its a Special Police forces costume, but hey who am I to judge? LOL He wears it every moment we are home and the only reason he is not wearing out is because I won't let him. He will not let me get his picture in it..but I going to sneak up on him! I am planning to make some jelly this week since we are home. I am looking for a garlic jelly recipe to try. Its really good on yummy baked things like chicken and pork...YUM-O

Pie Day Friday

On Friday morning Zach woke up and proclaimed he needed to make a pie. This was brought on by his new cooking kit I got him for valentines day. When he wants to do something fun like this who am I to question him? We found a crust recipe and made up the pie filling. The results were really good. Since we had one pear and one apple, he choose the pear. What a wise boy he is! The pie plate is tiny, as seen in the first picture, so one pear was all we needed. We made it like you would make an apple pie, lemon juice, fruit, cinnamon and sugar. I am making him an apron, since the one that came with the kit was a flimsy piece of plastic, which he torn the first time he wore it. I will post pics of the apron when I finish it.