What We've Been Up To

I don't feel like we have a lot to show for how "busy" it feels like we've been...but we have been making a lot of things. We tried to ignore Christmas, but it kept coming at us, so we ended up doing a lot of last minute present making. Aaron has been making mittens from old sweaters. I don't have any pictures of the finished products, but they are turning out really nice. We are going to try to sell them on Etsy, since we got a ton of old sweaters.


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I have been batiking up a storm.


We drove to Albany and Salem for Christmas. Here is our fruit platter.


Delicious meats and cheeses.


Our cookies that were made while sewing, batiking, packing, etc.


Christmas was fun, our longtime friends and neighbors had been without power for 4 days, so my parents invited them over for "showers and dinner". It was really nice to spend time with them and they were so thankful for warm food and good company.

And we did a little thrifting on the way home. We stopped at this antique mall in Albany called Pastimes that is always fun to visit, only to find out it's going out of business. Sad, but most of the pyrex we found was 20% off, so we um, picked up a few pieces. These match our set of dishes, (we also found two of our small plates for .50 each the other day, pretty beat up, but it's always nice to have extras) a bread pan and a casserole dish.


The refrigerator box on the left is in really good shape and I love it. Small casserole dish on the right and we aren't sure what the middle bowl is for, it's a strange shape. I'm thinking it will be a perfect whipped cream bowl.