Dash of Granola Farm 2016

I am so glad you came to our site.  We are going to be doing a lot more and a lot will be changing within the next year for

 Dash of Granola Farm

First of all we will be going to the Kaysville USU Farmers Markets

 every Thursday evenings from 5-8pm in the 2016 Summer from July-September,  My family and I will also be making a few transitions, but our garden and little farm will still be in Hooper, Utah.  We have already made preparations for the markets and have over 500 bulbs of garlic planted to sell at the markets.
We will have California Soft Neck Garlic and Porcelain Music Hard Neck Garlic.
Along with the Garlic, we will also be growing a wide variety of vegetables like, heirloom and hybrid Tomatoes, Onions, Leeks, Lettuce and Greens, Kale, Beets, Tomatillos, Peppers, Green Beans, and lots of summer squash, zucchini, winter squash and several varieties of pumpkins.  We will also hopefully have the addition of Free Range Farm Fresh Eggs too!!

I am so excited for the

 season and I look forward to seeing everyone at the Markets.

Please check back for continual growth of our Family Farm!


Review of the start of Dash of Granola Farm's Market Sales and a few products

Jaring everything

I have decided ball jars, well glass jars, are one of my favorite things to store stuff in. Since they come in all shapes and sizes I have found many uses for them lately.  Here's what I did in my bathroom 

I'll post the recipe I used for the lavender bath bombs I made in the big jar in another post. But I think they look awesome.  

I also decided to get rid of the big table top spice rack in my kitchen to save some countertop space.  I already have a built in spice rack above my stove so there is no need for it.  So I sold it and then found these amazing jars on Amazon 

Then I realized that For Your Kitchen was a vendor that sold these and it just so happens that I live 5 minutes from the store.  So I bought a case of them today. I found some herbs at Walmart, the brand Wild Oats, that sells their herbs in square glass jars and that's where I fell in love.  I love how they fit so perfectly on a shelf next to each other.  Such a great space saver.  They also have a little shaker lid inside that is great.  

So then I decided to use my fun little cricut machine and make little chalkboard stickers for the labels.  

Pretty adorable eh? I haven't bought a chalk pen yet, but they will be so cute when I get the spice names on there.  

I also put the spices I use the most in these cute jelly jars.  I plan on making round labels for the lids for these ones. 

I loved how it turned out!! 

Dash of Granola Farm

 Welcome to our little farms blog.  My cute little family and I have decided to start a little farm and sell produce at some local farmers markets around town.  We just thought of doing this about a month ago so it's pretty new.  We are planning on having a much bigger and better garden next year so we can take more produce to the markets. Right now we are attending the Kaysville USU Farmers Markets on Thursdays from 5-8.  Next Thursday will be our last market till next June.  

I've already been planning our garden for next year and I plan on expanding the garden to accommodate the sales for next summer.  

A few crops we will have next year are:

Lumina (white) Pumpkins 

Regular Halloween pumpkins

Garlic

Garlic braids 

Kale

Winter squash

Peppers

Tomatoes 

Carrots

Purple potatoes

Im so excited for next year. It's going to be fun! My little guy is just learning how to walk this year so he will be fun to help pick and sell next year! 

 It will be amazing! 

Look for us next Thursday at the Kaysville farmers market!! 

Quick single strap purse tutorial

I wanted a little single strap purse to take on my vacation. I wanted it light enough to just carry a couple diapers wipes and my wallet. I also wanted it small enough that I could just shove it in my Vera Bradley duffle bag for the flight. 

  I looked at a couple of stores and didn't find anything so I decided to make one myself.  

There wasn't any patterns on pinetrest so I made my own. 

The dimensions is 15 1/2" wide 10" tall (not including the strap) and 4" deep. I also used bias tape to finish the edges. 

I also added a pocket in the lining to hold chapsticks and other little things 

Start by sewing the corners first and then I ironed down the seams.  Don't forget to sew in the pocket before sewing the purse together. 

Next put the two pieces together and see together. 

 Next press all of the seams on the lining and shell of the purse. 

Next I sewed the bias tape to put it all together. I've never worked with bias tape before but once I got the hang of it it makes it easier to finish off the edges. 

I think it turned out great! 

Pimping the trailer some more

I have had on my to do list for over a year now to reupholster the table cushions in my trailer.  I have never upholstered anything before so that's probably why it took so long to finish the project.  

   The fabric was in the closet for so long it collected a lot of dust.  The project was daunting but I began by taking off the old cushions and unpicking one of the backs of the cushions and one of the bottoms of they cushions.  Unpick the zippers off too so I could reuse them. 

Next I laid the old cushion on the new fabric and used it as a pattern.  I cut about a 1/2" extra around it to allow a little give since the other fabric was so tight on the pads.  

I sewed them all together with the striped fabric for the back cushion and I did a dark blue for the bottom cushion.  I also added vinyl to the undersides of the cushions so that I could flip them over when the kids sit and eat so that it's easily cleaned.  

It took me a couple weeks and lots of unpicking to get it right but I think they turned out fabulous. I'm pretty proud of myself! 

Pretty much adorable right?!

Zipper ornaments

My mom started a tradition when I was a kid to get each child a new ornament each year for Christmas. Since Jefferson had open heart surgery on 3/25/14 he needed a zipper heart ornament for the tree! 

I saw this blog

http://lemonsqueezyhome.com/2014/12/zipper-heart-ornament.html

And thought it was perfect! 

So I bought a bunch of red zippers from fabric.com and made 8 of them. I kept one of them and sold the rest.  That blog was super detailed in the instructions so I just followed it. Here they are for my little zipper! 

Stella is obsessed with Frozen, so she of course needed an Elsa ornament for 2014. 

It hangs perfectly on the tree too! 

Kids table

We were on a tight budget for Christmas this year, so I did a little DIYing for gifts for the kids. 

 Found this cute wood kid table and 2 chairs on KSL for $25. SCORE!! 

So I spent many nap times out side sanding. 

This is what I ended up with. It took forever to figure out what I was going to do with it. 

I bought a dark stain and stained the table. I ended up making the top a magnetic chalk board too. But the red still showed through, but I think it doesn't look too bad.

The chairs, still not too thrilled about because they don't really go with the table, but I spent a lot of work on them so I just left them. I had the paint left over from a wall I did and I thought it was gender neutral. I also decided to paint in chalk paint their first letter of their names. 

It was from Santa, but none the less was a big hit Christmas morning!

Brave party

Stella had a brave party.  She had got the little brave bow and arrow from the Disney store for Christmas last year and she is actually pretty dang accurate with it. 

So we had a brave party and it seemed to be a hit. We made bear paw necklaces, shot bow and arrows that they got to take home and ate cute cup cakes!

Here's some pics of her special day!

The cup cakes! 

I forgot to take a picture of all the sweet bows we made, but here's Stella's. 

She had to ride the bank of the west bear while she shot her bow and arrow

Surprisingly they can be accurate as well. PVC bows rock! 

The only thing we changed from all the other pinned PVC bow instructions is my husband used a blow torch and bent a handle on the middle. It made it easier to draw back the string too. Worked great!

Heart party!!

This year Jefferson's 1st birthday was heart themed. He had a rough 1st year but he is amazing and so tough! 

I melted the red candy melts from joanns and used a piping bag and drew hearts for decorations. Turned out pretty cute. 

I need to prefect my cake decorating skills though. I suck at frosting cakes 

J didn't care he loved it! And that's all that matters

Here's his invites. I had a friend make them for me. Turned out super cute too!

We sure do love our little heart baby!

Lotion bars

I had a bunch of wax from 2013 and 2014 honey harvest, so I decided to make up some Lotion bar to hand out for Christmas.

I used a recipe from doterras blog and it works great! I love this recipe and it doesn't leave your hands greasy after. 

Here's the recipe 

2/3 c beeswax 

1/2 c coconut oil 

1/2 c cocoa butter

1 ts vitamin E oil

15 drops ( I used more like 35 drops) serenity and lemon (1/2 and 1/2) or you could use citrus bliss, peppermint, anything you like really. 

Here's my beeswax I filter and melt into cubes 

Pretty eh?

You melt that all (add essential oils right before pouring in molds) in a disposable container because it gets super messy and I used the silicone molds.

Turned out perfect 

I ended up selling the extras for $3 each! 

Pop up trailer Reno

 Last year we bought an old pop up trailer. I wanted to clean it up a bit so it didn't look so Old. The curtains were faded and half the clips were broken off the curtains and the table cushions, I didn't dare sit on because heaven knows what's on those things. So I decided to attempt a reupholster job. 

(I haven't gotten to the seat cushions yet but those will be done this summer!)

I didn't plan on recovering the beds, I just have a memory foam mattress topper and mattress cover and sheets all on them to cover them up. So I started with the easiest, the curtains. 

I stayed with the real theme from the bed colors and went with that. 

Here are the colors I chose 

These two are for the curtains and..

This awesome stripe will be the cushions! Back and the bottom is a royal blue solid. 

Here are the before curtains 

Super gross right?

So I attached the floral to the top of the curtains and did the solid teal on the rest.  Is isn't want to go too dark because I don't want it to be too hot, I thought this was perfect. 

There was a valance over the old curtains, and I don't like ruffle valances so I just used the old clips from the curtains and valances and hand sewed them onto the new ones. 

Here they are up 

I used they same floral for the straps to tie them back. 

I think they turned out awesome! 

Next is the seat cushions!! 

Here's the original ones.. Nasty!