From Adriel:
It has been AGES since I posted on our blog! I've been MIA for a couple of weeks... took a bunch of pictures today of new stuff! Will share that soon... today I wanted to share pictures with you of our apple picking last weekend. =)
We went down to Willcox to pick apples!
We picked Granny Smith apples.
Some of us sampled them while in the orchard (with permission).
Did I mention we picked apples? Yup! 100 pounds of them! =)
Afterward, some of us had homemade Pumpkin Pie ice cream.
Others in our party chose the homemade apple pie.
We also ate apple-smoked burgers under the apple trees, but I have no picture of that. ;-)The next day we washed all of our apples and cooked a bunch to make applesauce (which went into containers and into the freezer), kept a few for caramel apples and baked apples, and the rest we used our handy dandy apple corer, peeler, slicer tool. It's an amazing invention and we wouldn't have done all that apple discecting if we didn't have one! Our sliced apples when into ziploc bags (8 apples in each) with a little bit of sugar and some absorbic acid (to prevent browning) and into the freezer. We were able to crank out 24 bags of apples... long enough to last us for awhile! Now, when we want to make an apple pie or an apple crisp (or something apple-y), we have the apples all ready to go! All sliced and peeled! =)
BTW, if you are into apples, you really should have one of these. It's a wonder! Watch it in action HERE. =D
Since Adriel shared that "wonderful" photo of me putting the finishing touches on the apple tea book I was making, I thought I'd share with you how it came out (minus me in the pictures :-) I don't know what it is about these little book/cards, but I love making them. I think I love combining the DS papers, colors and embellishments together. Plus I love the size of these cards...their small, but they're full of little surprises inside and out. They're just really cute! We sell these in our Etsy store for $5.50 plus S/H. Here's the Etsy link for this 
We had a potential request for an order a few weeks ago for one of our tea books with an apple on the front. We didn't hear back from the person who made the request, but I thought the idea of the apple tea book was so cute, I went ahead and created one. I thought I'd share this with you, it's cu
