October Applesauce and Handmade Cards

Making Applesauce

start to finish :) 

 

 Steve bought us this lovely

apple peeler and corer for 

our  Kitchen Aid mixer

a couple years ago.

It is so handy when you have 

a lot to peel or when you

have arthritis in your hands. 

 

 

 

After cooking my apples down

and smashing them with a potato

masher and seasoning with 

ginger and cinnamon(no sugar)

it was time to fill the jars.

 

Then into the canner.

 

Steve always did the water-bath

outside with propane.

this year I purchased this stainless

steel canner that can be used

on my glass top stove.

I found that canning alone is not

the fun it was when we canned together.

More work, less enjoyment.

 

If you are interested, you can find

this canner on Amazon.

 

Into the water bath for

twenty minutes.

After filling eight pint jars

I had a little bit left . . .

 

The perfect time for a snack 

with toasted bread.

 

 

Beautiful & Thoughtful

handmade cards.

It is such a treat to go 

to the mailbox and find a 

heartfelt card and note clustered 

among the bills and junk mail.

You walk to the mailbox tired and ready

to call it a day . . . then your steps

lighten as you can not wait to get

inside and open your card :) 

This beautiful card came for Marilyn of

Pink Paper Cottage

https://pinkpapercottage.blogspot.com/ 

The enclosed seed labels are 

so pretty. I hope to do something

creative with them by Spring :)

Marilyn makes marvelous paper crafts 

and sells them in her Esty shop.

 

 

 This lovely card is from Nancy of

Cozy Thyme Cottage 

http://cozythymecottage.blogspot.com/ 

Nancy and I have been pen pals 

for . . . I don't know maybe

eight or nine years.

She is much better at keeping up 

with our correspondence than I am.

Forgive me Nancy, you are so sweet. 

She has health issues of her own,

but is always thinking of others.

The last one to show you . . .

but far from the least, is from Connie of

Connie's Crafty Creations

http://conniescraftycreations.blogspot.com/ 

Connie is a card maker that has

a beautiful blog where she shares so many

paper crafting ideas.

I would be very surprised if she doesn't

dream about making cards in her sleep.

 

That's my blog for today.

Thank you for visiting . . .

I don't post as often as before,

my heart just isn't into it.

As joy returns to my life I know 

that I will find more time to blog.

I have made so very many lovely

friends here in blog-land.

~~~~~🔆~~~~~

Some things can happen in life that knock 

the breath right out of you. Some days 

it’s a hard decision that you have to 

make alone. Sometimes it’s the words 

of a song that bring a memory to your heart.

 But when that breath gets knocked 

out of you, God blows His breath into 

our lives and gets us back on our feet again.

 We grab a hold of His strong hand 

and keep going on the path He leads us to. 

  Life is not an easy journey. 

The road can be very rocky; I pray that 

when I stumble (and I do) that 

I will quickly get back on my feet 

and run with my goal 

being the face of Jesus. 

 ~~~~~🔆~~~~~

 Thank you again for visiting.

God bless you and your families.

Connie :)

 

Knitting Children's Hats :)

 I love to knit hats for children.

Why, because:

you can use any mixture of colors,

you can experiment with stitches
and create many funky patterns,

and you can add any fun embellishments.

When I make a hat for a child,  

I allow for the amount of ribbing to fit 

comfortably on their head and that is my only rule.

 After I have that figured out I go wild and experiment. 

I never make two a-like.

 That would take the fun out of making them. 

Depending on the mood that I am in . . . 

I make them fairly plain or amazingly fancy. 

  

You could say that sometimes 

I'm a plain Jane and other times I'm a fancy Nancy, 

but all the time I'm having fun:)

Looking away from the fun . . . children need to be warm . . . 

so this is what I do.

Each year I go to a local preschool and

 play my guitar and sing with children.  

I usually dress-up as a scarecrow or as a cowgirl.  

Two years ago I made a hat for each child and passed them out.

  It was so rewarding.

  

Then the next year while I was making hats, 

I starting having a terrible problem with my lungs.  

I thought it was allergies or some flu bug, 

but no matter what I did it wouldn't go away.

In fact it kept getting worse. 

After about two months of this, 

I bought a new lamp to sit by my chair 

and I noticed that every-time I pulled out more yarn 

the air was filled with flicks of yarn.  

I was breathing these in.  

I put away my yarn and quit knitting and my lungs cleared up.

I had my yarn on the table next to me.  This year I am putting it in a basket on the floor . . .

 I'll let gravity help take those flicks of yarn to the floor. 

If you are reading this and you keep your yarn on the table next to you . . .

 get a strong light and see if you are breathing in yarn . . . 

and please switch your basket to the floor. :)

  

I hope you like these few hats.

I'll post some more at a later date.

Which of these did you like best?

Have a marvelous day . . . stay happy :)

Connie