Canning in the Dollhouse

When the kids were little, canning in our house was a big production.

 It was a work-filled fun activity that brought out homemaking tendencies galore.

 Canning became almost a mania and nothing edible in my path was safe.

Every vegetable imaginable ended up in glass jars.  Berries and other fruits became jams, jellies, and preserves.

Bread and butter pickles, dill pickles, hot pickles, and sweet pickles lined shelves in our house, too.

Speaking of shelves, there was an entire wall of them in the cellar. There wasn't an inch of space left once the dozens of glass canning jars were placed there.

It felt good being Queen of Canned Goods.

These days, with only one person left in a far different homestead, it's easier to pick up jam at a local farm stand. It's delicious, too.

 No more pickles grace the shelves nor canned beets, peaches, tomato sauce or anything.

However, this fall canning of fruits and veggies for the dollhouse took place.

The tiny bottles came from Dollar Tree.  The actual peaches and so forth began as different colored Skulpey clay. 

Rolled into balls, then sliced, and baked in a 200 degree toaster oven for about five minutes, the clay made fabulous canned fruits and veggies.

The clear liquid  inside the tiny jars came from a plastic bottle of baby oil. That was the brilliant suggestion of a woman who belongs to a miniature site on the internet.

See?  Canning around here is not dead. It just shrunk. 

HAVE YOU EVER CANNED?