Making Butter

I have never made butter before.  I was getting ready to go to the store and buy more butter when Dan's cousin's wife told me she needed to churn her butter before going to bed.  I asked her how to make my own butter and she told me what she did.  So I got the stuff and did it!

 I got 1 qt of heavy whipping cream.

added 2 T of  Real Sea Salt (that is my salt of choice now days when I have salt) (Salt is optional)

Then we churned the whipping cream in the mixer until it separated from the buttermilk.  Then we strained in a colander and rinsed with cold water and then we wrapped it up in a cheese cloth to squeeze out the extra water.

The whole process took about 10-15 min.

The blue dish is my butter dish (and only some of the butter is there) and the other is 2 cups of buttermilk, that I will save and use for cooking.

Thanks Jessi for giving me a simple way to make raw butter for myself.

Home Improvements

We have lived here for 4 months now.  We are loving our home, and we bought the stuff to fix the missing shingles on the roof including a taller ladder then we had to get up to the roof.

We have not done a lot of  home improvement work on the house yet, but I am so proud of what I did yesterday.

This is my front door.  I hated not having any privacy with it, but I loved the light that it gave me.  After much thought, I went to the store and bought this:

This is a $5 fix to my problem.

This is now what my front door and laundry room window look like:

I am loving the look with the front door, I have the privacy that I wanted, but yet I can still see the shadow of someone at the door when they come to the door, and I am loving the look of the light this morning coming into the room from that door.  It is not as harsh as it was. 

I am loving the look in the laundry room, I have all the right light but don't have to worry about everyone looking in my laundry room window and seeing everything in there.  I loved the way it looked yesterday afternoon when the sun was hitting it the most, it just made the room look great!


I am glad that I found a cheap fix and that I am loving how it turned out!  Now onto other projects!