I saw a short video online with some paper stars made from book pages. So, I tore up a sad book that my mom sourced for us. I started on the project about a week before Thanksgiving by gluing the pages to boxes out of the recycling bin, but knowing the projects that Thanksgiving would bring, we had to knock it out. Emily, Grace, and Juliet all helped trace, cut, punch holes, and string the stars for us to hang. The original had lights, but we weren't quite that fancy.
Alice used the air fryer, for the first time ever, despite the fact that we've had it for four years (according to the date that I wrote on the box when I stuck it down there.) She was making knock off chick fil a nuggets. They weren't bad, but not quite like the original. The first round was pretty overdone, since none of us had ever used an air fryer before, but I fried up the rest using the traditional pan and oil to cook up the remainder of what she had.
When my mom left for Texas last time, she left two bags of kale in our refrigerator, so I thought it high time to make another round of kale and bean soup.
I made some sliders for dinner one night, and while making up leftovers, thought that the leftover mulberry jelly that we'd brought home from Clare, and a dash of powdered sugar, would make them in to a Monte Cristo knock-off. It was pretty good considering I didn't use a fryer!
Looking forward to all of the cooking and crafting that the Christmas season always brings!
later days
