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Future me here. I've gotten ahead of myself again, so I'll be double posting until I catch up to my one-week-only prepublication schedule.

My guy and I went to walk an antique mall yesterday, and then stopped by the local church thrift store on the way home, where I found some neat cookbooks. I'm getting into the cooking doldrums again, and with the holidays on the horizon I really need some new inspiration.

Here's my receipt for the cookbooks. I also donated $5.00 in cash to the store's pantry fund, as they provide free food for the needy in our community. They were actually handing out bread and sacks of potatoes under the fair share program while we were there, and I saw a lot of seniors taking advantage of that. People on fixed incomes can't afford the prices at the market these days, hence my donation.

When I got home I jumped on my thrifted fabric bundle challenge by selecting these two upholstery samples for a dog bowl mat.

I generally don't work with upholstery fabric, but it does make sturdy projects. Both samples were so stiff I thought I might handwash them first (which you should never really do with upholstery fabric, I admit.)

I'm glad I did that, because the water turned purple! I'll be sewing these together into a mat tomorrow after they line dry.

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