Summer Ball, Mushrooms, Floss and Gibbs

As you can tell by the title this is going to be a LONG post.

I finished page 3 of my Summer Ball project!!!!   I am now over the 50% mark on this piece!!!!  Just Love it!!!!

In case you don't know, my husband is a fresh mushroom vendor for Wal-mart.  He works for a mushroom company based out of PA.  Every once in a while, he will get samples in to take to Wal-mart.  Usually we just get enough to take to them and usually an extra pack for ourselves.   This time someone was feeling generous.  Mark thought he was getting like 9 packages....we got 40 instead!!!!  I have coming out my ears. We gave away alot of them to friends, coworkers and family.   I still had 8 packages left ( I used one pack to try out this mushroom soup recipe below) to do something with so I searched the web for a Homemade Cream Of Mushroom soup recipe.  

Soup recipe for one batch

one pint bag = one can

I made the sample batch and loved how it turned out.  The recipe above does NOT have any seasoning in it.   The only salt it has is the butter used to cook it. This is just like a cream of mushroom thickening agent for your meals.  Once you use it, add seasonings to what ever you are cooking.....it will be awesome!  What I like best about it, is that it is just made up of 5 ingredients and no preservatives!!!!!!!   I had 80 bags and wound up the 4 left over...so right now I have 76 bags (cans) of Cream of Mushroom soup in my freezer.  I used a measuring cup to measure a can size which is 10.5 oz.    If you try this, remember this has no seasoning so you will want to add some.

Can you guess what Gibbs ate this week???  Gibbs and Brigen destroyed 3 paper bags.  They just love them!!!

Check out this receipt from JoAnns!!!!!  I went there on Saturday so I could take advantage of the DMC 4 for a $1.00 sale.  I was able to find 314 skeins of floss.  It was $83 before my teacher discount. That brought it too $72.   I actually saved $56 due to the sale!!!!  The sales lady had to ring each one individually and she told me this was the longest receipt she has ever seen!!!!! 

 Here is what a pile of 314 skeins looks like.....Anyone want to help me sort it??????