The Evolving Homemaker

Man oh man. I got the greatest little surprise in the mail yesterday from my Mom. A care package of the living simply, re-using sort.

Ahh…opening it was even better than all of those camp care packages full of M&M’s and Jolly Ranchers I was always begging my sister to send in long winded letters written far from home when I was a kid.  Of course she never actually sent one of those begged for care packages…  She often surprises me nowadays with a little package here and there, a book or two since she is fully aware of my printed page obsession.  Probably pent up camp care package guilt…

My first surprise:

Two bags full of fake flowers.  Lame for some, but you have no idea how many things I have used plastic flowers for.  From afternoon tea party hats for my daughter to her fairy costume.  And if you have ever caught the price of the ‘fakes’ in the craft store for scrapbooking, you will understand the score I just made!

Then:

Sweet Hallelujah! Raffia.  Sounds exciting doesn’t it?  But for me, it is a gold mine.  I was telling my Madre on the phone the other day that this months issue of Mary Jane’s Farm had a pattern for making a straw sun hat out of raffia that I totally wanted to attempt to make.  With the scores of other things of course on my list of ‘I wanna’s’.

Of course there was the:

Sticks for rolling sushi?  Not 100% positive, but if I had to lend a guess, sushi rollers is what I would guess!  So fun!  It has actually never occurred to me to try making sushi from scratch!  Yet, this will now be added to the list of things I must try too!

And last but not least…drum roll please…no longer drum roll…a little bit longer….looonnngggeeeer…..ok….

Wallah:

Did you see the sky opening and hear the heavenly trumpets in their glory to my new cheese making kit?  Oh I so heard them as I got to this little diddy.  A CHEESE MAKING KIT!

My list is ever growing of the things I desperately want to get my hands dirty doing.  So much to do, so little time.  This Mama is going to have to start setting up one goal a week to achieve.  Of course, heaps of hours have been spent in my garden over the last few weeks, you will be shocked at the difference when you see a glimpse of some photos on Thursday, but once the garden is under control…hmmm…the dreams I have…

Isn’t my Mommy the greatest!?  This so beats even a camp care package of Newman’s O’s.

Spill it: Share a bit of the crafts you have yet to get to, or yet to finish for that matter!  All the blogs I follow have these amazing finished products to show and I am in awe at how these Mama’s have time to do it!  How do you make time?

Posted June 8th, 2010 under Cooking, Crafting. Tags: care packages, cheese making, craft supplies, Crafting
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