Made With Love circle tags

These are circle tags that can be cut out using a 1 inch circle punch and either glued to an item or you can punch a hole, I suggest 1/8 or 1/16 inch, in the side or top to put a string through the tag to tie it to something. Click on the image for a larger version. There is some bleed area so you can center the design in your punch.

Unicorn rainbow mandala

Every so often I tell my husband that he is my rainbow unicorn snowflake. It's my way of telling him how very special I think he is. His usual response doesn't fit the G rating of this blog.

Anyway, here is a rainbow unicorn snowflake mandala. For people who really love unicorns, rainbows and snowflakes.

Color it in or embroider it. 

Paisley Mandala Coloring Page

Hopefully your colored pencils are fairly sharp. This has got some fine detail.

I hope you enjoy it!

Click the image for a bigger version, and have fun coloring!

There are a lot of mandalas to color in my blog, just click on the mandala label at the bottom of this post.

Pickled Peppers

Recently I made a batch of pickled peppers for my pepper loving family.
I used Lucy Norris's recipe here with some modifications.

For the brine I used
1 cup of water
3 cups of vinegar
1 tsp. cumin
1 Tbsp. kosher salt

Brought to a boil in a stainless steel saucepan so the salt dissolved.

I packed my jars with
1.5 lbs green jalapenos cut into rings
half of a large red onion sliced thin- mix these two.
In each jar:
1 head dill
1 cloves garlic
1/16 tsp. Ball's Pickle Crisp (a calcium chloride additive to make pickles crunchier)
Pour the brine over the packed jars leaving 1/4 inch head room.
Packed in half pint jars and processed for 10 minutes. Makes approximately 6 half pint jars. The basket in the Ball Home Canning Discovery Kit set will hold 5 half pint jars.

One jar I put into the fridge. The other half was processed.

The Pickle Crisp made the fridge jar super crispy. Even the thin onions snapped when bit. The processed jars weren't as crispy.
Because of the cumin and garlic,it has a definite taco-ish flavor. These would be wonderful in omelets or quesadillas.
Since I'm a complete wimp when it comes to spicy, I tried bits of the onions. For less spicy pickles, you can remove the seeds from the peppers. I didn't because other than me, my family loves spicy.
The pickles are a hit. I think today I'll do some refrigerated pickled green beans with the pickle crisp and see if they get crispy.