I haven’t worked on miniatures at all since my last post. I’ve been a bit busy doing some other stuff. Last weekend?
I went to a friend’s house (both Sat and Sun) where we canned 38 half pints of crabapple jelly, and 20 pints of crabapple butter. To be completely fair I wasn’t even around for all of it, but did help out a lot; if I say so myself. This weekend? Helped same friend paint her breakfast nook and foyer pretty much all day Sat, and then today I roasted tomatoes to make sauce (along with some carrots and, umm, cucumber. I mistook it for a zucchini).
After I roasted those for 2 hours, then put it on the stove for a bit to thicken up I (with hubby’s help) shelled some lima beans, blanched and froze them, along with some ears of corn (all lots of yummy stuff from the farmer’s market).
Then I made dinner.
The local natural food co-op makes these to-die-for pita breads that make great pizza dough. Some pizza sauce, spinach, squash, and just a little bit of some vegan mozzarella style cheese (yes, I’m vegan) and no more hunger. Then hubby reminded me of the remainder peaches his dad brought as a present last weekend (oh yeah, my FiL, his girlfriend, and my BiL visited last Sunday after I got back from the canning escapades). I remembered that my bread machine has a jam setting, so I made some peach freezer jam.
Hopefully there will be time for miniatures next weekend. Though I’m pretty sure I said that last weekend…





July 19, 2010 at 6:23 am
What a productive gal you are! Those jellies look so yummy!! There’s no way I’m showing my family this post just in case they expect ME to prioritise food production over minis
July 19, 2010 at 4:10 pm
will you be making miniature jars of freezer jam and preserves next weekend…?
July 21, 2010 at 12:12 pm
i am SO proud of all your pictures…. and for posting. i wish i could call you a lazy ass for taking so long… but you did more in 1 weekend than i’ve done all month!!
WTG!!! it all looks so good!