Sunflower Seeds,

Hey everyone!! So here I am, a month later, with a new tutorial/post. So if you have read the newest post on Madness and Fun with The Dolls, little Elliot may have mentioned that I was harvesting sunflower seeds. I thought I would share how I do that. The seeds actually aren't done yet, I'll explain why later in the post, but for now,

This is one of the sunflowers, we harvested three, and these things are HUGE!! So we got a LOT of seeds, I'm trying to think of something to use in comparison to the size, um... got it! This sunflower is bigger than a basketball, and the stem was over nine feet tall and three inches around!!! That's BIG!!! See all the seeds on it? That's what we're harvesting, ;)

Here is my little brother, picking the seeds, eventually I got so fed up with picking them one by one I just picked it up, flipped it upside down, and beat the flower on the deck until they came out. Next, I took them inside, put them in a colander, and washed them under cold running water for about three minutes.

Then, we put down a layer or two of paper towels, and let them dry for about four hours.

Now we have them sitting in a big metal pot of water and half a cup of salt, they need to soak all day, and tomorrow we'll be roasting them. I'll update you (hopefully,) soon on how they turned out. Bye for now!!!

Abbie R,