Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Making Butter

K so I saw this thing pinned on Pinterest, making butter in a mason jar. Super easy and if you have a bunch of people around it makes it even faster.  I bought the heavy cream the other day with plans to do this myself. The hubby suggested I use child labor and get it done today. So we did. 3 kids in the house a few mason jars, a pint of heavy cream, and a little bit of shake shake shake and butter was made =)

So we have pint mason jars, this makes it easy to store cause you dont need to transfer from one jar to anything else. fill the jar about half way with cream. and start shaking, when you get tired pass it to the next person. it really does take right at 20 minutes and you dont have to work hard at it. when the butter starts really seperating and there is obviously liquid  and butter in the jar, stop shaking and use another jar or the carton the cream came out of and pour the liquid out ( save that its buttermilk, use it in other recipies like pancakes )  use a fork to stir up the butter and pour a little cold water on there and shake a little more, keep doing this cold water mix and shake and pour till the water is clear. then add a little salt stir , shake and refridgerate you are done ( OH and taste it) awesome right?

We made 2 kinds, plain salted butter, and dill salted butter. So yummy! Not really that cost effective but not bad, we figure its about 2 sticks of butter per pint. But yummy and the kids thought it was cool =)







Friday, April 19, 2013

Baseball Bracelet

I know there is a link somewhere for this on my Pinterest page, and if I can get time I will find it and put it on here, but for now, for the sake of getting this done....

Edit: The Original I have pinned

I saw this on Pinterest and thought that with baseball season coming up this would be a super cute project,  and it totally is!

All I did was take an old beat up baseball, and cut around the stitching with an exacto knife.



then I peeled that piece off and found where the stitches started, I folded it in half and cut it into 2 pieces.



then I cut and unraveled the string from the leather, I recommend you do this like 5 stitches at a time until the strings are long enough to tie. I then did a really basic square knot on one side so that the strings will slide and then glued a piece of felt to the back to "finish" it off.






Only took an hour, it was easy and look me and Wes have matching baseball bracelets =)