Fields Of Heather: Summer

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Tangy Dill Cucumber Salad

All of these summer recipes have amounts given, but it's very unusual for me to measure much of anything. I come in from the garden with a few cucumbers... then I make what looks to me like enough dressing to coat them. I believe this is typical of many old housewives, and why so many of you will remember something tasting slightly different than it does when you follow the recipe your grandmother gives you.

This dressing is one of my favorites - it's great for cucumbers, but it's also a great salad dressing, or on broccoli and cauliflower... just an all purpose summer dressing. Quick and easy.

Cucumber Salad:

Approximately 4 "smallish medium" cucumbers, peeled and sliced - around 4 cups sliced.
1/2 a red onion, sliced thinly

Dressing:

1 cup mayonnaise
1 tsp lime
¼ cup white sugar
4 teaspoons white vinegar
½ teaspoon dill seed
½ teaspoon salt

Again, I never measure the vinegar. Add everything except the vinegar into a small jar with a tight fighting lid. Then pour in a little vinegar, and shake. Check the consistency, add more vinegar as needed to reach the consistency you would like.

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Simple Cherry Tomato Salad

A Quick and Easy Summer Side Dish -

Simple Cherry Tomato Salad With Mint

We have an abundance of cherry tomatoes in the garden! They are the grandsons favorites, because he is allowed to pick and eat them while playing in the backyard. I have half a dozen varieties - including sun gold, black cherry, an indigo, a sweet 100, a yellow pear.... and more, all of which vary by year.

For a super quick side dish in the summer time:

2 cups, or so, cherry tomatoes sliced in half
1/4 a red onion, diced
optional -thin julienned carrot

Dressing:

1 tsp white sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 T EVOO [extra virgin olive oil]
2 T red wine vinegar [or sherry vinegar]
2 T finely minced mint leaves

Mix the dressing, toss it over the tomatoes. You can serve immediately, but it's better if you can put it in the refrigerator for an hour or so before serving.

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Sunflower & Bee Banner

A Sunflower & Bee Banner, made with a variety of svgs

Here's what I used:

These are the same bee and flower svgs I used to make the magnets.

Unfortunately, the bundle, from Canada Crafts, is no longer available. CC is no longer on Creative Fabrica at all, although they do have a store on Design Bundles - this particular bundle is not on there.

However, there's a FREE, similar svg from:

https://bearly.art/products/bee-you-tiful-sunflower-bloom

Daily Dose of DIY has a free bee svg that I like a bit better than the bearly art version:

https://dailydoseofdiy.com/3d-paper-bee-craft/

And there's an entire selection of free sunflower svgs here

https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2023/07/free-svgs-for-making-paper-sunflowers.html

The banner I used is my favorite banner base - it's from Special Hearts Studio.

https://specialheartstudio.com/easy-patriotic-banner/

Just use the base - skip the flag and star tops for this. I cut 10 of the base, then glued them together in sets, so I have 5 pieces two pieces thick. That's not necessary with heavier cardstock, but I always find my kraft brown cardstock to be a little thinner than a lot of my other 12x12 papers.

The svg in the center is from a bundle I got in the Dollar Deals ages ago. It's 40 bee designs, and I've used a lot of them on wine pouches and garden flags.

https://bit.ly/3Tsd3dY

A garden flag made from the same svg bundle

https://bit.ly/3Tsd3dY

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Handprint Eagle Craft with Free SVG

A child's handprints make the feathers for this eagle craft - perfect for the 4th of July crafting. :-)

DOWNLOAD THE FREE SVG HERE

There will be two different svgs in this bundle - the "Uncle Sam Hat" is for a separate craft, I'll add the tutorial for that one soon!

For this one, you want the Eagle SVG.

Upload the svg, resize the group to 12.887 wide by 8.77 tall.

Then change the colors of each item. Either ungroup them, or just select one item at a time from the layers menu on the right.

Fold a piece of white copy paper in half, trace your childs handprint. Cut, giving you two handprints. We liked copy paper for this rather than cardstock - it made the "feathers" lighter, and is easier to cut.

We used a glue stick to assemble everything except the googly eye - we always use hot glue to attach our googly eyes. And we hot glued a magnet on the back... I buy packs of magnets at the Dollar Tree, and we attach them to the back of most of my grandsons crafts.

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