Slices of Life

 While it looks like I only made 7 cards for the month, I actually made much more than that since I made 40 copies of my Christmas cards!  First up was a shaker style card I made for my husband's birthday.  Then I made this beautiful all white card using cardstock, vellum, and die cuts.  This Surfin' Santa set was perfect for our Christmas cards this year since we'll be heading to Hawaii in December!  Then I had fun playing around with my new stamp set-- I love that the pie and the drink can be just about anything from pumpkin spice to apple, to cocoa/chocolate & more! I even have plans to try and make a key lime pie/summer themed card but we'll see...  And I made up 2 scrapbook pages yesterday! Linking up with:

Tomorrow is the last Saturday of the month and time for the Share 4 Somethings link up with Jennifer. Once again we'll be sharing some things we've  loved and/or disliked, accomplished, some things we've improved upon and/or that need improvement, and noticed. Loved: We have been having the most beautiful sunrises lately! Accomplished:  I finished my latest painting and got almost all (40!) of my Christmas cards finished.  Improved upon/needs improvement: I really need to go through my closet and clean out those fall and winter clothes that I no longer wear or like how they fit but I just have not found the energy to do that yet.  Noticed:  We can't help but notice everywhere we hike that we are experiencing a major drought this year. To give you an idea here is the same river; one photo taken in Nov. 2021 and one taken this month...  same waterfall this month versus it in 2022 Linking up with: Final Friday, Spread the Kindness, 

 In writing up my final post today I realized I must have forgotten to photograph one box somewhere along the way as I recounted our pick up days and found that we have had 17 Thursday pick-ups but I only have 16 photos. I'm betting there was zucchini, and corn, and tomatoes... and more of the same! LOL.  All in all this program was well worth the $500 it cost us at the start of the year as I feel 100% confident that buying this much produce over the span of 17 weeks would have cost me more than $500.  I feel like we did real well with minimizing food waste too and actually used 99% of what we were given. That said I think if we were to participate again next year I'd drop us down to the 1/2 share size only because the vast majority of the vegetables were only eaten by my husband and myself. And it really started to feel like a job to find something to do with the produce before it went bad.  Box 12:  Corn on the cob, zucchini, butternut squash, green beans, mini potatoes, toma