all right so I want to share with you what I got in the mailbox I'm going to
start sharing with you the cards when I get at cards just to show you quickly I
got a handful of cards and aren't they special so thank you so much for all of
your cards and in this car oh here's another card and in this card it was
something very special for me and a pack of seeds so I really want to thank you
so much this was a real blessing to me so I'm actually going to be planting
these seeds today and then I got two packages this one I opened them up just
to look at him quick but I don't know what's inside them so this one they
wondered when my birthday was well my birthday was on January the 12th so this
is a belated birthday present for me and this is exciting
well is it this adorable I have never seen a casserole dish so petite like
this isn't that cute so I'm gonna come up with a really neat idea for this and
you'll have to keep watching to see how I'm gonna use this thank you so much for
those birthday present and then I got one more
oh isn't this adorable oh I have never seen anything like this look at these
clothes pins oh they are adorable well I know they're gonna go to my
wooden shelf I never saw anything like that in my whole entire life oh and look
at this vintage everybody knows I love vintage and I am going to keep it just
like this so thank you good so much and add Whaley oh look at the doilies aren't
they pretty and I came with a card oh
look at the doilies and have beads on them I've never seen doilies like that
and vintage oh my word I love it I'm gonna add it to my collection a bandanas
isn't that neat love it we're gonna put that in my basket with all of my be
Indiana's look at the beautiful homemade card that got gone with it and look at
the letters the letters are just amazing some people write me very very long
letters and I enjoy reading them this so unique thank you girls for all of this
thank you so much for the cards thank you so much for the two gifts this is me
and I think that is so neat I just never saw anything like them have you ever
seen clothes pins that look like this now my mama has some but they're little
I've never seen such big clothes pins pretty cool I don't know if they're old
or they're to look old I'll have to read the letter maybe she said so this I
opened the gift on camera I didn't read the letter that came with it and it's so
amazing because this gift came from the UK and she explains a little bit that
the pegs were called gypsy pegs and let me go ahead and let me read you an
excerpt I've heard letter vo you talked about
the simple pleasure of seeing pegs on a line I to find a line a pegs out washing
gently blowing in the breeze oddly comforting than homely so I sent you two
very old gypsy pegs in the old days gypsies would make these from old twigs
and bits of copper to sell door-to-door you might like to use them to clip to
something or whatever I am going to be keeping them as a keepsake
she also went on to say and explained the doilies to go back and watch one of
your older videos and you read from Fanny's diary and that she'd begun to
crochet a pineapple patterned dwelling I like to crochet and pineapple is one of
my favorite so I have sent you some beaded jug covers I made of course your
trademark headscarf I thought you might also enjoy vintage magazine and love
looking through these this is just absolutely adorable so this explains
everything so the doilies are actually the pineapple pattern doily and they are
jug covers oh you know I love that and the Gypsy pins
oh my word I love the history about that so I wanted to get on here really quick
and share with you that she explained these items and that is just so much of
a blessing to me so thank you so much from a friend in the UK
you
hi everybody and this is what I got this week at the thrift store now I may not
go every week because of all this that's happening in our world but for 75 cents
I got this book it's called the herbal yearbook and if I can find the book I
will surely show you the link I'm gonna be using this to document all of my
herbs and all the herbs that I have planted it goes by the month and I think
this is going to be so much fun for me and it also has a project using herbs
for each month so this is going to be another one of my journals that I'm
going to use this year so I'm really excited about that
the herbal yearbook and then for a dollar each I got these plastic
shoeboxes I didn't need the lid so I left the lids there so they were a
dollar each and I'm planting using these to plant so I'm going to be planting
tarragon it's what I'm gonna be planting fenugreek and then rosemary now somebody
said that rosemary needs to be stratified in other words you need to
have the seeds in the cold before you plant them actually on the back here it
says not to it says you were to plant them indoors six to eight weeks before
time to plant them out so I'm gonna try growing rosemary by seed
so I spent $3.75 this week at the thrift store but now it's all about planting
it's all about getting my gardens ready it's all about hunkering down and being
in your own home not going away not spending money and just using the things
that you have one I want to share with you what I got in the mailbox this week
and it's really cute items so the first thing I got was this package and I did
open it because I wanted to see what it was and look at them
I call them slippers look at them aren't they adorable
today as you can see out my window it's rainy so I'm gonna be putting these on
and just relaxing today aren't they cute can you imagine how much time and effort
it took into making these so thank you so much and she also gave me this
and that's now this reminds you of summer and that's what I make so excited
for I've been really busy working outside been getting a lot of my
homestead type chores done and this I'm gonna put on my stove and I'm just going
to really cherish it so thank you so much for the socks the slippers and for
the tea towel all these vintage paper dolls aren't they adorable so she had
them and she's moving so she wanted to give them to me you know I'm gonna put
them to good use back in December about myself these kits
and they come from Mary's heirloom gardens and I will share with you the
link in the description box but what we are going to make is we're going to make
a tincture there are different kinds of tinctures that you can make drink any
alcohol so we are making a glycerin tincture and this is a vegetable
glycerin tincture I will share with you in the description box where I bought it
and all we are going to do is take our dried herbs and make a tincture with it
so she has a kit here but she could easily make it on your end and I will
make it on my own from now on but I wanted to see how her kit was so this
one here is echinacea so echinacea is really good for you if you're sick and
have a cold it's very good for you your immune system what we're gonna do is
we're gonna put glycerin in here and we're gonna steep it for six to eight
weeks then all we do is strain it and we put it in dropper bottles which she
provided she has a lot of different kits that you can make now the glycerin I had
to buy separate so all we do is we're gonna put enough of glycerin in it to
cover all of our herbs I really don't need that much
and there you go that is that one the next one is chamomile
so chamomile also is really good for you especially if you have a nervous
condition so we're gonna use the glycerin or the chamomile chamomile
smells amazing and you actually could drink it as a tea she also has labels
with this I have to find for my I put the labels to it plenty
so glycerin is actually good as steep into all of these herbs and it's going
to take all the quality properties out of them and then you can use them and a
dropper full with juice or however and that's how you're going to get your
nutrition and your vitamins and your herbs you could also do this the exact
same way using vodka but for those people who maybe want to give to
children or those people who don't want to have any alcohol in their system this
is a perfect way of doing it should always suggest that you would do your
own research find out what these what different herbs are good for and use
your own discretion but today we made some out of echinacea and we made some
out of chamomile this is one item that you should have on your pantry shelf
because you just never know and you can make your own medication in your own
medicines and you can learn about your own issues in your life but remember
always consult a doctor if you're on medications but for people like me who
do not take any medications herbs are the way to go