Thankful Thursday! I am thankful I got to post several times in the past week instead of the wimpy once a week. I like to write and this is a good outlet for that. I am also thankful that Christmas is around the corner and that we will be home for it this year. The big kids will be out of school the week before but M will still be in preschool so in the morning we can get some baking and treat making done. Wondering if they could be bribed into a deep cleaning on the house during that week.... never mind, there probably isn't enough of anything in the world to get them to *deeply* clean.
I have been sewing up a storm again. I organized my fabric stash a month or so ago and discovered lots of odds and ends and have been trying to make things out of them and work the stash down to a manageable (or at least not so embarrassing) amount. This morning was sewing curtains for M's preschool bathroom doorways; they have some but they are 1) U.G.L.Y. 2) falling down constantly 3) stained with paint and such. I discovered that what I truly want for Christmas is a turbo rocket booster for my sewing machine so when I am working on a boring, monotonous project I can hit turbo and sew those straight lines in no time. A girl can dream I guess.
My birdseed ornaments that I was working on a couple posts ago turned out terrific. Not usually a recipe blog but I will share this.
INGREDIENTS: 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 3 cups birdseed mix 1/2 cup dried cranberries 1/2 cup raw peanuts 1/2 cup boiling water 1/4 ounce unflavored gelatin 3Tbsp. light corn syrup old bowl or bucket old or disposable muffin tins or other small containers to mold the ornaments old pencil or stick
DIRECTIONS:
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl or bucket (I used an old plastic halloween bowl that I could throw away at the end). Add gelatin powder to the boiling water and stir until it is dissolved. Stir corn syrup into the gelatin mix. Dump wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir till all the mixture is moist. Press mix into muffin tins or other molds (I used small old margarine tubs and small old pieces of tupperware). Use the pencil or stick to make a hole through the center of each ornament; remember you will have to insert a string through it later so make it clear enough. This recipe says it makes 6 ornaments but I got closer to 10 out of each batch. Let ornaments sit for 3-4 hours until "soft set". Tap the seed muffins out of the tins and molds and let sit overnight at which point they will be firmly set and ready to string. I put mine on raffia in holiday colors and into little gift bags for neighbors. If you wanted to make the gifts larger or part of a set you might add a birdhouse, a bird book, or some other type of feeder. If you are a member of my family and unwrap some of these as a gift please act surprised and grateful; the terrific thing about this gift is that if someone hates it, the birds will eat it and it goes away. If they like it, you can pass them the recipe.
WOW! This post is so exciting I can see why you keep following my blog. I have covered baking, cleaning, sewing, and making gifts. Just call me Martha---- on the other hand don't because I might smack you.
love and hugs and pics of children in the next post hopefully! B
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