Bountiful Baskets & Crafts

It seems that since Thanksgiving I have had a hard time getting on top of ordering Bountiful Baskets and preserving some produce. Between the holidays, Richard's birthday, and going to Utah twice our money has been otherwise tied up, as well as my time. But now I am committed to building up our food storage again. This week I ordered two baskets of produce and ended up with these awesome items:

2 bags of carrots, 2 bags of potatoes, 2 bags of green apples, 2 heads of romaine lettuce, 2 heads of green cabbage, 2+ bunches of bananas (there were some extra looses bananas),  3 bunches of green onions, 2 melopens, 3 kale, 15 oranges, 4 English cucumbers, 15 tomatoes, and a partridge in a pear tree. All for $30.00!

Hannah assisted in displaying our loot.

Also, in my attempt to be more self-sufficient and domestic, I created these adorable doll clothes as a gift for a little girl in our ward. The kids have been invited to her birthday and I thought this would be fun for her. I made a reversible dress, a bib, and two diapers. I sure hope that she enjoys them!

I have seen so many darling ideas for coasters on Pinterest and really wanted to try some. Besides, I found out that one I have that is similar to these, only with cute paper rather than photos, had been broken by one of my children and then scotch taped together so I would not find out.

I love them so much that I just kept making them. The kids got to pick photos of themselves for their own, I'll post pictures later, and now I have so many that I need to figure out what to do with them. Maybe I can start selling them on Etsy? Or I'll keep making them and sell some at the farmer's market this year. I'll have to figure something out because we do not need this many coasters. LOL!

I made these eggs for the kids as Easter decorations. Actually, I fully intended on making them for myself but Hannah thought they were so cool that she selected her own thread colors (bottom picture). I was fine doing 3 for her and 3 for me, or "the house". Then Richard came home from school and begged for me to make some for him which left me with none. I am actually OK with that because they were a little complicated on the ends and very time consuming. But I love how they turned out and the kids have custom colors.