Saturday, January 09, 2010

Favorite Things!




I love getting Christmas cards and hanging them up--I feel surrounded by friends and family. Often I wait until February to take them down. I used to carefully arrange the cards that my parents got and form them into the shape of a giant Christmas Tree--taking up the whole wall. I would build it day by day.

2nd favorite--fun old jewelry "vintage". A store that I really like but find incredibly overpriced went out of business. Paul went with me one evening even though he was sick to wait in the store as I went through the entire selection picking out some selected necklaces. Many of the necklaces came with clip-on earrings which I can't wear. I do not know how women ever wore them--they pinch your ears so. But an incredibly talented friend of mine took the clip-ons and modified them into modern hanging earrings. So many matching sets!

Thursday, January 07, 2010

CHEESE




After listening to Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and the authors families experience of trying to live off the land we were inspired to try making some cheese.

It was suprisingly easy and quite tasty--using the kit that we got for Christmas. Cheese Kit--30 Minute! It would be easier if we could fine fresh milk as almost all of the milk in AK like the majority of the food in AK comes up by barge.

To more exploring with cheese!