What do you do when you get a bad grind from your favorite coffee house? A whole bag mind you. Do you toss it? Use it some other way? Take it back?

Well this is the second time it's happened (so sad) so I felt wrong about taking it back. I did so some experimentation! Those who follow my Iron Shot Cafe know that espresso is amazing in my shortbread! However a fine grind make a surprisingly weak french press. So I took some of my courser ground beans & mixed it in a bowl one filter size at a time until I found a ration that extracted perfectly! Thankfully it only took 3 tries!

My ratio on my breville is 2 scoops (tbls) commercially ground espresso grind to 1 scoop drip grinds. Leaves just enough space for no pressure overload!

Sewing with salvaged espresso!

Georgia is loving this time of year! 

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In my attempt to organize my studio I've decided I need to clean out some projects.

From previous posts you see that I've finally gotten some mending out of the way and here I'm getting some finished projects out. They are for sale on my facebook page Jewett's Faire Shoppe. I'm also trying to knock out my WIPs .... this is gonna take forever!

Link inspired booties!

Went to work for a few hours today to clean out the book drop then cleaned off what I could of our buckeye tree. There were quite a few I couldn't reach even climbing!