Tutorial Tuesday: Fabric Advent Chain

This is for all of you who want to go just a little farther with your paper chains. It's reusable, you can use up a lot of your little fabric scraps and you can do it all without sewing a stitch.You can check out the tutorial over at Roots and Wings Co. They are currently in the middle of doing 8 weeks of Heartfelt and Handmade Holidays, so I am sure that I will be finding more very interesting Tutorial to share with everyone.

Food Friday's: Pumpkin pie in a Jar

Here's a great recipe that I came across in my trusty 4H cook book. Now you can easily make pumpkin pie at any time of the year with fresh pumpkin. I always use up the carved pumpkins after Halloween because I feel bad just throwing away perfectly good pumpkins.


Pumpkin Pie in a Jar

Peel, remove seeds and cut pumpkin into small pieces. Bake, steam or boil in small amount of water until tender. Then put through a sieve. Measure the pumpkin pulp and any juice remaining. Then to each 3 cups of pumpkin add the following:

2 cups sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tbsp molasses (optional)

Mix well together and bring to a boil, simmering until quite thick. Stir often to prevent sticking. Seal in hot sterile jars. May be put in hot water for 10 minutes to be sure that they seal.

TO MAKE PIE

2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 1/4 cups prepared pumpkin

Beat eggs well. Add milk and pumpkin, mix well together. Put into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 375F until golden brown.

Tutorial Tuesday: Car Cozie

Here is a little something for those of you who have boys to sew for this Christmas.

If you want to know how to make this for one of your little rugrats...I mean Gems, head on over to My Little Gems for the tutorial. Sadly, I have no boys to sew for on my Christmas list, so this one will have to wait...although my girls aren't afraid to play with cars, so I could still sneak it in if I have time.

My newest creation

OK, there is a story that goes along with this. If you want the details you can go to my personal blog to read it.

This is our new passport holder. I planned and cut it out last night, and then sewed it together this morning. I am pleased with how it turned out. It will fit nicely in my purse or in the glove box, or really just about anywhere. Not to mention that it is stylish and not likely to accidentally end up in the trash.

Tutorial Tuesday: Pot holders...but not what you think

On the day I came across Obsessively Stitching in my web travels, she was finishing up her pot holder week. No she wasn't showing off all her different kinds of pot holders, she had a whole weeks worth of ideas of what you can do with pot holders...making them into many different useful things. Each idea comes complete with step by step instructions and pictures.

pot holder Seat belt covers
pot holder Travel "sewing Project" kit
pot holder Makeup bag
pot holder Clutch wallet

My favorite Idea was the pot holder quiet book. Cute, easy, fast. Another item to add to my Christmas To Do list.

sorry

If you were looking forward to today's Food Friday post, I am sorry that I didn't post one. I've been too tired, and still to tired to think of anything clever...so I am heading off to bed. Maybe I'll make it up tomorrow.

The magic number 57

Well it's all over folks. My Totally Random Give-away i over. I was a little worried there for a bit that I wouldn't reach my preselected number of comments. But Kelly O Made it happen with her comment on my Tutorial Tuesday: Bunny Bowling post the 57th comment. Kelly made a comment on nearly every post since the announcement of the Random Give-Away and she is a follower of my blog. So lucky Kelly will win her favorite item in my shop, which I believe is this carseat canopy. Along with this she will receive a special surprise that she will just have to wait to see what it is. Thank you all for reading my blog and leaving comments. I love to read what you are all thinking. Keep reading and keep commenting.

Tutorial Tuesday: Elegant Hexagonal Pillow

Isn't this a fun pillow? I found it over at Sew 4 Home. I love these colours! Unfortunately they will not match any of my holiday decor. So either I will have to buy the whole collection of fabric and start all over, or I will have to find some other fabric to make this pillow to match the rest of what I currently have.
There are even more tutorials to do up your entire living room and dining room.
What fun! Like these! I think I am going to make Stocking like these this year.




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