If reading the extensive research-based book, The China Study, is not interesting or possible for you, I’d like to suggest you watch this 90-minute documentary based on the research from Dr. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. This video weaves the research around the practical stories of a few people who were making important changes in their diets to improve their health.
This video is a comprehensive overview of The China Study research and followed the career paths of Dr. Campbell and Dr. Esselstyn. While they had not met before, their professional work supported each other’s research. Dr. Campbell was following the science of a plant-based diet, while Dr. Esselstyn’s work provided the clinical research into heart disease that supported Dr. Campbell’s findings. All of their findings were stronger when they finally discovered how their research supported one another.
This video is offered as part of Prime Video at Amazon or the DVD is available for purchase for $11.39. Your local library may even have a copy to lend.
Cataract Surgery Update
Hopefully, after tomorrow I’ll be able to enjoy reading again. It will take a few days for the eye to clear up after surgery. I’ll finally have 20/20 vision for distance. Then, I’ll have to find the right “cheeter” readers so I can see close up. I can’t wait to get back to all my ongoing projects…from sewing Greyhound coats to experimenting with soap and skin care products. While I couldn’t read books comfortably, I seemed to be able to click on Amazon to order some of the cookbooks to go along with the whole-foods, plant-based eating plan. They have now arrived, so soon I’ll share some of the recipes that worked for me. That’s all for now…I have to be at the medical center at 6:10 tomorrow morning! Yikes! More later!
I apologize for going silent for a week and leaving my ugly mug in view for so long! My new (cataract-free) left eye is now 20/20, but of course the right eye will be worked on next week. Soooo…my vision is a little crazy. I wanted to share some information that I’m rereading about the research into the whole foods plant-based eating plan (as opposed to the label “vegan”) but I can’t really see well enough to write up that description. Since I can type without looking at the keyboard, I’d just like to summarize my thinking about attitudes toward nutrition.
Nutritional advice has shifted back and forth over time from low carb to high carb and balanced diet to restricted diets. It seemed diets were driven by folks who wanted sell books, or supplements or actual food.
Back in the 1960’s you might have recognized names like Adelle Davis who pointed out the harmful hormones and additives in common foods. She felt foods were lacking in nutrition and recommended adding vitamin supplements to the diet. (See her book, “Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit”).
Robert Atkins encouraged a low carb diet with unlimited protein and saturated fat. This diet was criticized for putting folks at risk for heart disease.
Around the same time one of the most controversial diet books was published, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappe. This book laid out the principles of eating less or no animal products and using plants in a way to combine their nutrients so we had adequate nutrition (expressed as food combining, like beans and rice). Food companies spent a lot of advertising energy proclaiming that we just couldn’t get enough of the right kind of protein on this diet.
At the time, the Standard American Diet was definitely focused on beef, pork and poultry as the base for an adequate diet. This diet was supported by the industrial food growers and manufacturers with subsidies to farmers and advertising to the public (remember the “Where’s the beef?” and “Got Milk?” ads?). Most plant-based crops not designed to be fed to animals were more of a novelty or appropriate for home gardeners. Families choosing to eat less meat were shamed into thinking they were not feeding their children adequate nutrition.
At the time, nutritionists were taught the basic food groups of a good diet (meat, dairy products, vegetables, fruit and starch (bread and potatoes). any diets that deviated from this Standard American Diet were often described by what they did not include: Vegetarian meant no meat but cheese and milk were OK; Vegan meant no meat, no dairy, but dangerous lack of protein.
When I discovered that I was allergic (or very sensitive to) eggs and dairy products, I would say I was a vegan that could eat meat…so I could reassure folks that I could still be healthy.
The China Study
In 2006 I stumbled upon a book describing some major research in the field of nutrition, called The China Study. This research was spearheaded by T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional biochemist at Cornell University and his son Thomas M. Campbell, MD.
The research was focused first on animal studies trying to understand the relationship between diet, longevity and cancer. The research team then had the opportunity to use a vast database from China that explored many variables, including the relationship between the intake of animal protein and the incidence of cancer. The detailed results were published in this book, The China Study.
The research presented in this book was very compelling to me. However, at this stage it was difficult to see how it could be implemented…especially in the winter in Pennsylvania. Our garden was under snow. I did not have a greenhouse and I had very little experience cooking with beans or tofu. However, I was thrilled to attend a presentation given by Dr. Campbell at Foxdale village here in State College in 2008 and had him autograph my book!
The researchers in The China Study also partnered with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a noted cardiac surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, who was implementing a diet for his most difficult heart patients that focused on a whole-foods, plant-based eating plan. He was finding the diet worked, even when traditional doctors were still recommending the Standard American Diet. His patients loved him; many of his colleagues didn’t want to hear about his successes!
After reading The China Study 15 years ago (which I found inspiring), I was amazed at the reaction from the government, food industries and nutritional organizations (subsidized by the government and food industries). The revised edition of the book, out in 2016, describes some of the most controversial issues. I could not believe the vitriol being thrown about.
With any research-based book like this, it’s always hard as an individual to figure out how to implement the findings. What should my dinner plate look like if I wanted to follow the suggestions?
Curiously, over the last 15 years, T. Colin Campbell’s wife, daughter and son found ways to define the practical side of the diet. Dr. Esselstyn’s wife and daughter published cookbooks and his son (a firefighter) brought the diet principles into the fire house, creating the Engine 2 Cookbook based on the book and video Forks Over Knives.
Now I realize the language about diet has changed from Vegan (and the foods not allowed) to a Whole-Foods, Plant-based diet (with a more positive image). Both families (Campbell and Esselstyn) transitioned to this way of eating gradually and their younger generation has found a way to champion this way of eating. I find it inspiring!
This afternoon, I’m still uncomfortable trying to read in depth so I’m going to watch the video I have of Forks Over Knives to refresh my memory. As soon as I can actually focus and reread parts of The China Study, I’ll share some of the research. If you’d like to dive into the research yourself, the revised edition is available on Amazon. There are now several cookbooks available that are written by LeAnne Campbell. More about those recipes in the future! Enjoy!
Sometimes it’s the mismatch between expectations and reality that makes things funny. Other times it’s the total lack of skills as I learn something new that makes me laugh. My cataract surgery on my left eye this week gave me multiple opportunities to chuckle. By the time I have my right eye done in two weeks, none of this will even be funny…I’ll just accept it as part of having cataract surgery!
Before surgery I was experiencing difficulty seeing clearly, especially at night. Halos around headlights were getting brighter. Christmas lights on every house and bush made driving at night painful. Even daytime driving and shopping was frustrating while it felt like someone had smeared Vaseline on my glasses. Double vision was something I tried to get used to. It was time for cataract surgery.
Everyone who has had cataract surgery had an experience to share so I wasn’t too worried about the procedure…but you know sometimes folks forget to share the details!
Like any upcoming surgery, I took time to read all the instructions given to me. I’ve had my share of surgeries, so I noted how to prepare the day before…no food or drink after midnight, no meds the morning of surgery and begin administering the special drops.
Hard to believe this tiny bottle holds enough drops!
Day Before Surgery
So, the day before surgery, reality appeared…I had never successfully put in eye drops! The few times it has been necessary in my 76 years, Bert has put them in for me. Sounds impossible, I know. Getting me to not blink when the drop headed my way was funny. Bert kept saying, you can see the drop coming (no I couldn’t…remember my double vision…I saw more than one bottle and couldn’t possibly focus enough to see the drops coming.)
Four times the day before surgery, Bert patiently put drops in my eye. Right after surgery my eye was swollen so Bert continued to put the drops in. By the day after surgery, I decided I needed to master this skill…it was embarrassing to not be able to do it myself. I had Bert watch while I lined up the bottle over my eye. Then he moved my hand until it was in the correct location. That was funny how I thought I was lined up and I was so far off. Finally, by the end of the next day (8 drops later) I could finally hit my eye correctly. Whew!
Good thing I figured out the drops because the day after surgery I was given a chart to show that over the next 4 weeks I would gradually reduce the drops from 4 drops/day the first week to 1 drop/day on the last week. That meant in two weeks when I have my right eye done, I will be tracking 2 drops/day in my left eye and 4 drops/day in my right eye. Yikes! That does make me laugh! I should be pretty good by the time I’m done!
Day of Surgery
The instructions for surgery day said I was to wear loose fitting clothing… preferably a button-up shirt so heart sensors could be easily applied. No mention was made about a bra under the shirt, so I figured I’d be comfortable and wore a camisole that tucked into my slacks. Great idea…NOT! They forgot to mention that one of the heart sensors would be placed about waist-level almost on my back. That meant that while lying flat on my back with my right hand hindered with an IV, I had to reach around and untuck my camisole. Crazy! That just made me chuckle. Next time I’ll skip the camisole! (TMI I know!)
When I checked in for surgery, I was handed a paper surgical mask. I assumed I would wear it throughout surgery. Just a note: I really don’t like wearing a mask. However, it was surgery so I guess necessary. I had that mask on for almost an hour while the nurses did their prep. When it was time to go to surgery, they took the mask off me and put the oxygen tubes in my nose. Off I went to surgery. Granted, the Doctor did lay a rubber shield around my eye and over my nose, but it felt strange to have them remove the mask as I headed to surgery.
After Surgery
When I got home from surgery, I took a selfie. The eye shield was an odd shape but you can see how it was applied.
The next day when we replaced the tape on the shield it ended up like this:
We couldn’t decide how it was supposed to go, but when we compared it to the first picture, we ended up turning it around. Nothing was mentioned about the right way to put it on so after that I ended up putting it the original way. It was a little more comfortable to sleep. Of course, when I put the tape on, I obviously got it too long…right up my nose! Made me laugh!
About the time I figure out how to get the tape right I won’t need the shield any more!
The Day After Surgery
The day after surgery I had an appointment to see the surgeon. Everything looked good. My vision started at 20/80 and by day two it was 20/40. It should get better each day as the swelling goes down. Thanks to a suggestion from the nurse, I was able to stop at the glasses desk and have them remove the left lens from my glasses. My brain was struggling with the conflict between my two eyes.
Removing the left lens from my glasses seems to help my brain confusion for a little while. In two weeks I’ll have to make further adjustments!
One final chuckle after this experience…all of a sudden, I needed my bigger purse! I had just started using a smaller bag and I could immediately see a problem.
This small bag was great for my wallet and phone.
I now had to haul around a bunch of extra things, like paperwork, glasses case and the sunglasses I’m to wear on really sunny days.
Folder with information.Sunglasses and my glasses with one lens removed.Adding a paperwork folder and two glasses cases meant I needed my larger bag. I’ll have to save the small one to use after the second eye is done.
My cataract surgery on my left eye is considered a success. No one really needs to know all the details that made me chuckle this week, but I thought you might like to know why I’m not sewing or cooking much for the next few weeks. That detail work might need to wait until I figure out what I’ll need for correction for close work. But…I should eventually be able to drive without double vision! Yea!
I have an assortment of different kinds of rice, from Basmati and Jasmine to short grain brown rice. Off hand I couldn’t tell you why they are different from each other but someday I’ll look them up to see if I can tell the difference after they are cooked. I do know that if I have a choice, I prefer the heft of the short grain brown rice.
I picked up this bag of Wild Blend of Gourmet Rice at the grocery store recently and gave it a try yesterday.
Just a note…this rice blend had 3 gm of fiber in a 1/4 cup serving: the brown rice also had 3 gm of fiber, while the Jasmine rice had no fiber. Good to know!This blend was a mixture of black, brown, red and wild rice.
It’s a good thing that every bag of rice has cooking instructions…each kind seems to have different liquid requirements. The way this bag was glued shut, I could hardly see the instructions, so after I measured out what I wanted, I saved what was left in a jar and cut up the bag so I could read the instructions better. I’ll drop these pieces of plastic into the jar for the next time I want to cook it!
I started with 1 cup of rice blend and rinsed it over the sink.I put the 1 cup of rice in a saucepan with 1 1/4 cups of water and a tablespoon of butter. Then I brought it to a boil and reduced the temperature until it just simmered. I set the timer for 40 minutes.
After 30 minutes it looked like the water was all absorbed but the rice was still pretty chewy, so I added another 1/2 cup of water and let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
Then the instructions said to remove the lid and let it sit for 10 minutes.
While I waited those 10 minutes I pulled out a few green beans, snap peas and 1/2 a sweet potato, chopped. In a saucepan, I added some water and boiled the vegetables. A little butter, salt and pepper and I had a great lunch!
Delicious!
I think I’ll make sure to keep this rice around for future meals! Enjoy!
I was checking out recipes online the other day and came across an article with this title: 24 Things to Add to Jiffy Cornbread Mix to Make it Even Better. I remember loving those mixes and was so surprised that they were still on the shelf at the grocery store.
Now that I can have an egg here and there, all I had to do was substitute my almond milk for the regular milk. Then, in that article I mentioned above, I found an addition that might taste good: 1/2 cup of blueberries and 3 tablespoons of maple syrup. I picked up a box mix and some blueberries and thought I’d give it a try!
The dry mix was a little lumpy so I used a mixing spoon to break up the lumps. Then I added the almond milk and 1 egg.
After adding the blueberries and maple syrup I gave it a good mix. The batter was pretty runny…but I didn’t want to add anything more until I saw how it baked. Next time I think I’ll add a little flour to stiffen up the batter. The additions also meant I might be able to make 7 muffins…so I’d better use the full size pan!
The muffins needed 20 minutes in the 400 degree oven and still looked a little flat. The extra flour would help that the next time.
However, they were delicious!! Very quick and easy. I think I’ll check out the other variations that were suggested in the article. I did another search online for “additions to the Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix” and found dozens of ideas! Since it only makes 6 muffins, I won’t have too many to deal with at one time. Give it a try! Enjoy!
This is the time of year that we start planning our garden for the next growing season. Why? Well…the garden seed catalogs have arrived to entice us with beautiful photos of garden plants and produce, of course! It’s called “marketing!”
We’re sitting here while we watch the snow/drizzle/rain/sleet outside our windows and the mail arrives with catalogs like this:
Who could resist thinking about these lovely tomatoes!
We have gardened long enough to be mindful that not every plant in the catalog will grow successfully in our backyard. We also have tried many vegetables that did well…but we’d rather not eat a lot of them. As long as there are great Farmer’s Markets nearby, many of our vegetables can be purchased from accomplished growers.
So, each year after we get the catalogs, I first check my shelves for the things I grew and preserved last year. I know we ate our share of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans. Lettuce and radishes were the base of many salads. Then, I preserved tomatoes as pizza sauce, cucumbers as pickle relish and beans as 4-bean salad.
Pizza sauce, sweet pickle relish, Four-bean salad and fresh carrots.
If you’ve followed along during the year, you’ve seen my posts about some of those crops. You know that we didn’t grow everything we needed but we grew the vegetables that did well for us and then filled in with vegetables from the Farmer’s Market.
Lettuce and Radishes
We grew lettuce and radishes in a raised planter. They did beautifully and I had 5-6 plantings throughout the summer. We’ll make sure we order the seed that did so well! Watch for our Garden Updates throughout the summer.
Lettuce and radishes
Pizza Sauce
We love our Super Sauce tomatoes from Burpee. Bert starts them in the shop under grow lights around the end of March. We plant about 10-12 plants in the garden and end up giving away the extra plants to neighbors. They do well for us and make great sauce. You can read about how I make pizza sauce at: https://marykisner.com/time-to-make-pizza-sauce/
Four-Bean Salad
This pickled salad has our green and yellow beans, kidney beans and chickpeas. I can wait until I have picked enough green and yellow beans and then add canned kidney beans and chickpeas. Delicious all winter long! You can read about canning this salad at: https://marykisner.com/canning-four-bean-salad/
Four-bean salad ready to add the kidney beans and chickpeas.
Sweet Pickle Relish
This last year our cucumbers did not produce well. I had enough to eat but not enough to make the relish. This is where the Farmer’s Markets come to the rescue. I was able to pick up a whole box of cucumbers for less than $20 at the end of the summer. You can read about making the sweet pickle relish at https://marykisner.com/canning-sweet-pickle-relish/
Applesauce
I love to have small jars of applesauce in my cupboard. I can regulate the amount of sugar added (usually not at all) and it’s just the right size for the two of us. Since we do not have apple trees, we head to Way Fruit Farm on the other side of town. I try to make applesauce in the early summer. Remember, the apples we buy here in PA in June were grown last summer. Then they were stored in a climate-controlled setting and by June they are much easier to peel. I think last year I purchased 3/4 bushel of apples. You can read about canning applesauce at: https://marykisner.com/a-fond-memory-while-canning-applesasuce/
Fresh Carrots
We like our carrots fresh. Since we don’t have a root cellar that would control temperature and moisture for storage, we’ve discovered that we can leave carrots in the ground until late December. Then we clean them up and store them in the refrigerator. That way, we can have fresh carrots most of the year. You can read about our carrot crop at: https://marykisner.com/carrots-the-last-of-the-2022-garden/
Dehydrated Green Beans and Corn
Throughout the summer I dehydrate small batches of vegetables like green beans and corn. I use them in vegetable soup all year. Snapped beans need to be blanched and chilled and then spread out on the dehydrating trays. It’s amazing how many fit in a jar when they are dehydrated!
Corn is available at the Farmer’s Market around the middle of August. I will buy 1-2 dozen ears, cook it for eating and whatever we don’t eat I’ll cut it off the cob and put it in the dehydrator. After 3-4 times, I have several jars of dried corn ready to throw into vegetable soup.
I’ll try to remember to post about dehydrating vegetables this year!
Corn cut off the cob, ready for the dehydrator.Green and yellow beans; corn cut off the cob and dehydrated.
Chicken Stock
The last thing I want to remember for this summer is to can chicken stock. I use a lot of it and last year I made stock and froze it. Big mistake! It takes up so much room in the freezer. If I wait to make it when all the canning equipment is easily, I think it will be much more practical. I could even make several pots over several days. You can read about making chicken stock at: https://marykisner.com/making-chicken-stock/
Garden Plan for 2023
Given what grows well here and what we like to eat…NOW we can look over the 2023 Burpee Catalog, see what seeds we ordered last year and order seeds for the coming growing season.
Seeds left from 2022. No tomato seeds were left!
We decided to NOT plant any shell beans or cucumbers, but we may add potatoes and Delicata squash in the spring.
Using last year’s order from Burpee, we know what we need for this year.
Finally, we’ve made decisions about this year’s garden! Seeds have been ordered! A great New Year’s Day activity!! Enjoy!
Planning ahead for family celebrations is always wise. Being able to roll with the punches is also ideal! This year involved unpredictable weather, ongoing health of family members, and of course reliable transportation.
We do not make a big deal of decorating our home at Christmas because we usually drive to our daughter’s home on Christmas Eve and come home on Christmas Day. Just enough time to hug everybody, enjoy opening gifts and share Christmas eggnog.
This year we had the outside lights on one of our dogwood trees and a tree by the front door…perfect all month!
We plugged in a small ceramic tree that belonged to Bert’s mother many years ago. That, along with two special snow globes and a small creche scene was the focus at our house.
The two days before Christmas Eve, you may remember, was a big snow storm followed by a drastic drop in temperature…at least here in Pennsylvania. We had about 6″ of snow over two days and then the temperature dropped 40 degrees overnight. We did not lose power but Bert was kept busy over two days shoveling and plowing and then putting down anti-skid material before we hopped in the car to make the 2 1/2 hour drive to Kathy’s on Saturday.
Before we left the driveway, we got word that Anna (10) was sick with strep…but not Covid. We agreed to not hug much when we got there and we headed out.
O my goodness! I could not believe the roads! It was a long slog over the mountains where it didn’t look like a snow plow had worked very hard to clear the road. Maybe it was Bert’s white knuckles on the steering wheel that was unsettling!
The wind was blowing snow around and luckily there wasn’t much traffic but it was slow going to get to Kathy’s.
Kathy’s house, as usual, was beautifully decorated for the holiday!
I really wanted pictures of the whole family but it just wasn’t appropriate to cram us all together to get posed pictures…so I managed to get a whole lot of selfies.
Merry Christmas from Daisy!Merry Christmas from Kathy, Me and Steve!Bert and Kathy were all smiles.By Christmas Eve, Ben (15) wasn’t feeling well.Anna was a trooper and had started antibiotics by the time we got there. She felt better on Christmas morning.
You would think by Sunday, Christmas Day, the roads would be much better coming home. In town things were wet and slushy. However, over the mountains…
Coming home we passed several folks off the road that reminded us to go slow. There didn’t seem to be any anti-skid material on the road.When we finally came down into Altoona on Christmas Day, the sky was lightening up and the roads were pretty clear.
I guess Kathy and Steve both were under the weather by Monday. Bert picked up a head cold that has lasted most of this week. So far…I’m fine (fingers crossed)!
So, we had a great holiday visit with the kids and grandkids, but getting there and back was challenging. Of course, this weekend the temperatures will be in the 50’s with rain! Go figure!
Yesterday, anticipating the snow that arrived today, I made a quick stop at the grocery store…along with many of my neighbors! I wanted to make a pot of vegan chili in the crock pot today and just needed a few ingredients. Here is the recipe:
Not a very complicated recipe and very adaptable to whatever you have available.
I picked up a red sweet pepper and some freeze-dried garlic. I don’t use a lot of garlic and this little jar is so easy! I had carrots, celery, and onion but I took a look at the canned tomatoes and found some interesting flavors. I started with three cans of tomatoes and ended up adding a fourth can of diced tomatoes just to fill up the crock pot.
After dumping everything in the crock pot, this is what simmered in my kitchen all day. Delicious!! Try it yourself!
Writing this blog has certainly kept me entertained for almost two years. I’ve written 223 posts so far and have taken hundreds of pictures. I’ve written about random stuff from what I’m making, what I’m baking and memories from the past. Through your comments I’ve met some wonderful people, rekindled friendships and reached out to my extended family.
The program I’m using, WordPress, is pretty simple to use but it still stretches my brain to figure out how to do things, like how to embed a pdf document that lists all 223 of my posts so far so you can download it yourself. I did it once, but for the life of me I can’t figure out how to do it again.
Soooo…if you want an updated pdf that lists all 223 of my posts with hotlinks to go directly to articles (which is how I go back and find just the article I want) you’ll need to email me directly (marykisner@comcast.net) and I’ll email it to you. Simple as that.
I realize some of my posts are really just “musings” but many have step-by-step instructions about how to make something. I guess I could make booklets that focus on one subject…like bread recipes or how to work with melt and pour soap…but that seems like more work than necessary. I’m sure I’ve missed an important piece of WordPress that will create an Index but to do that, I’ll have to go back through 223 posts and type in the necessary key words into each post. Oops! I should have figured that out at the beginning!
If you are just enjoying catching up with what I’m doing, great! Thanks for checking in!
If you really want to try that recipe I wrote about several weeks ago and can’t find it, send me an email and I’ll send you the pdf with hot links! Enjoy!
I was recently asked if I could make a greyhound coat…with a matching scarf for the human owner! I love a challenge and I wondered if a matching scarf for any coat or outfit would be possible. Of course! One search on Pinterest gave me some ideas. Fleece is a great fabric to start with because it won’t unravel. The edges don’t need to be finished and it is washable. A plaid pattern on fleece was my starting point.
The last greyhound coat I made used this plaid, lined with light gray. I wanted to experiment and had enough left over to use this plaid.
I needed a strip of fabric about 12″ wide and 54″ long. This piece was left over from a dog coat I had just finished. I had a piece about 1/3 yard long (12″) and 54″ wide.
Note: I could buy just 12″ of fleece (since fleece is usually about 54″ to 60″ wide) or I could use a strip 1 1/2 yards long if I have extra along side my pattern pieces.
Fleece does stretch a little more in one direction than the other but in a scarf it really doesn’t matter. I let the plaid guide how wide the scarf ended up. Cutting on the lines made for a neater-looking finish.
I wanted a scarf about 10″ wide. I let the pattern of the fleece guide me…it could have ended up 9″ or 10 1/2″ wide depending on the pattern. Use the lines of the plaid to cut along.
Next, to mark where the fringe should be cut, I measured 4″ from the end and put a strip of scotch tape. That helped me keep the fringe all the same length.
I first measured along the bottom edge and snipped every 1/2″. Then I moved the measuring tape up to the scotch tape and cut from my snip up to the scotch tape.The scotch tape comes right off.Now the human (owner) will have a matching scarf when walking the dog!
The next scarf I made was to go with this purple plaid coat with a lavender lining.
I used the black and white check scarf as a pattern, lining it up with the X’s of the diagonal plaid. Since I now had a pattern, why not a second scarf of the lavender fleece. This human will have two scarves to choose from! Such fun!
I can now see the potential with all the color choices as JoAnn Fabrics…maybe I can find something to go with my new winter coat! Enjoy!
