Rubyellen, I just love your Family Meals series! My mouth always waters when I read it. I am particularly excited to see your tagine (I LOVE tagine). Also, the linguine recipe has inspired me to try fennel, something I haven’t ever really cooked with before> Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you am! I honestly don’t get much feed back on my family meal posts, so I never know if people like it. Despite that, I keep doing it because it keeps me accountable in planning meals, so if no one likes it, it will still be here! I’m thankful you like it though! And try fennel! It’s so good! We even eat it roasted with carrots and love it that way too!
I do the cooking and he does the cleaning. I do the shopping but he does the “I forgot” shopping. But late at night when the kids are in bed I do let him make me decaf coffee and kettle corn for a date night in. It is fun to have a partnership for getting it done!
I have a large growing pile of fabric scraps. I refuse to throw them away because I am sure they can be used for something. I have been seeing different types of interesting necklaces made of buttons, beads, and fabric. Then, I figured why not make one out of my scraps...
I think it made my white shirt a little less boring. This was so quick and easy to make.
How to make a recycled scraps necklace (which is very similar to the straps on my braided tablecloth bag):
1. Take your scrap fabric, I cut a .5''-1'' snip and tear the rest of the fabric down for a nice frayed edge. Used 3 different fabrics for each strand.
2. Take 3 of the torn pieces and tie the ends together with a rubber band.
3. Braid the 3 pieces together and tie ends together with rubber band when done.
4. Repeat steps 2 & 3 for more strands. Remember you can make the strands any length you want, if run out of fabric, just weave more into the braid.
5. Once all the strands you want are braided, gather one end of each strand together and straight stitch together with sewing machine. Repeat for the other ends of the strands. Snip off any excess.
6. Gather ends of the necklace and sew together (snip excess) or a ribbon can be sewn at the ends to be able to tie the necklace closed, but I just sewed both ends together.
7. Voila! A nice way to make use of all your lovely scraps.
Sorry if the directions get you a little lost, but it really is easy. I promise. Maybe I should put some in the shop. Please share any other good ideas you may have of things that can be made with scraps. I would love to hear (read) them!
Rubyellen, I just love your Family Meals series! My mouth always waters when I read it. I am particularly excited to see your tagine (I LOVE tagine). Also, the linguine recipe has inspired me to try fennel, something I haven’t ever really cooked with before> Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you am! I honestly don’t get much feed back on my family meal posts, so I never know if people like it. Despite that, I keep doing it because it keeps me accountable in planning meals, so if no one likes it, it will still be here! I’m thankful you like it though! And try fennel! It’s so good! We even eat it roasted with carrots and love it that way too!
Yum! : ) Look delisshhh!
I do the cooking and he does the cleaning. I do the shopping but he does the “I forgot” shopping. But late at night when the kids are in bed I do let him make me decaf coffee and kettle corn for a date night in. It is fun to have a partnership for getting it done!
Your dishes look so delicious!
I love your family meal posts! It inspires me every week. That linguine with fennel and shrimp looks delicious!