Advent Calendar Quilt.

Thanks so much to Rug Pad USA for sponsoring this yearly update on my living room situation and the giveaway!I was compensated for my work on this post but all thoughts and opinions are mine as always!Today, my friends, it’s time for a tale of an experiment gone right!

I picked up a giant cantaloupe from the store a couple of weeks ago for Kennedy, because she loves it, but it ended up being too unripe so she only ate a little piece and then didn’t want anymore.Well, I have to tell you before I get to the recipe, that I absolute hate cantaloupe.Can’t stand the stuff.

But this jam is a whole ‘nother story!.I found myself with 2 giant bowls of perfectly cut cantaloupe chunks and no one to eat them, so I thought I might as well play around with it instead of just composting it in the creek right away.

Instead of standing over a stove for an hour, which I didn’t have time to do, I decided to just toss everything into the crock pot and see if it would work.

I was pretty sure it wouldn’t because of the fact that the crock pot needs to stay closed so you don’t get the evaporation and the thickening that you would get on the stove, but clearly it did!But then when you stand back… and you hang a “G” on it, it’s actually pretty cute.

When you pass by it in the hall, it looks like it might be that natural bleached wood that we’ve been seeing around.. And I think it might bring a nice bit of softness to this hall that’s going to end up looking pretty crisp  and contrasty.. And I’m probably thinking just way too much about one little measly door pull..Besides, I can always go back to Leo.Do you ever feel like you’re learning way too many big life lessons for a person your age?

Do you always feel like you should know that already?We went camping this weekend and I did that again.. We left on Thursday morning and by Wednesday, mid-day-ish I had already completely lost my composure and was freaking out (to myself and the cat) about how out of control of the packing situation I was.