I have a confession to make, I love boxes and containers! If you take me into a shop that sells organization type stuff my eyes glaze over and I can wander for days.. needless to say the Hubs never goes with me to those places, which I don't understand because I love going with him to the hardware store but then again I seem to wander off to the section of the store with all the little parts and pieces..Humm?

My Studio is the smallest room in our house but of course it has enough stuff to probably fill another room. I have tried to organize my jewelry components and beads for years and just when I think I have the things the way I want them I find some new box that would be just right and so I have to start over again, sorting and placing everything where I want it.

I have decided that this is therapy for me and when I am upset or not feeling particularly creative I find myself dumping out boxes and re-organizing them. I guess its cheaper than a shrink but every time my husband comes into the room and realizes what I am doing he makes himself scarce. Gee do you think I am putting off some sort of vibe?

My point in this ramble is take a look around your studio and see if there is a need to organize something then go buy lots of fun boxes etc. When you are through see if you don't feel better!

Now I have to run, there is a sale at the container store!!

Its September and whether it brings a nip to the air where you live or not, this month heralds the beginning of the fall apples. Apple trees heavy with fruit, apples on the teacher's desk, and apples for making wonderful dishes.

Growing up in Missouri, our favorite apple was a wonderful red crisp sweet Jonathan Apple. As a kid I can remember going to an orchard somewhere in the Ozarks with my Grandmother and buying two bushels of apples, bringing them home and letting them sit for several days on the back porch, as my Grandmother always said they need to settle a bit before we use them.

I have read that apples are America's favorite fruit and there are dozens of varieties. Apples are nutritious especially with the skin on, filled with calcium and iron and vitamins A & B and are good for digestion and our essential fiber just to name a few. Well, the old saying an apple a day keeps the Dr. away comes from lots of factual information on apples! Who knew?

The goodness of apples has inspired cooks for thousands of years, and there is a wealth of old and new recipes that rely on them. My Grandmother made applesauce, pies, bread, cakes just to name a few of her wonderful delights.

I spent a lot of time with my Grandmother as a kid and learned not only how to make jewelry from her, but how to cook many things, but one of my favorites was her Apple pie!

I am going to share the recipe with you which has been handed down from my Great Grandmother and I hope you enjoy it as much as our family has through the years. Take a bite, close you eyes and see the beautiful fall apple orchards with their juicy apples just ripe for picking.

Nanny's Apple Pie

6 cups Jonathan apples peeled and sliced (you can use granny smith )

1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 tablespoons flour

2 tablespoons cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

2 tablespoons butter

pastry for double crust 9" pie

Preheat oven to 450

Combine apples and lemon juice in a bowl. Combine sugars, flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix well and pour sugar over apples and stir to coat. Spoon filling into the pastry and dot with butter.

Place top pastry on pie and trim. Fold under edges to seal and flute. Cut a few slits into the top pastry for steam to escape.

Bake in preheated 450 oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake for 45 min. Use foil around rim if it gets to brown.

Our family always served apple pie with melted cheddar cheese on top, but Ice cream is pretty darn good too!

Bon Appetit

Every one has to have a place that is there own little corner of the world so to speak, and this is mine! I have moved things around a thousand times just to find the way everything feels right to me.

But if I add to many things I find myself moving everything again and again. The hubs says I am maybe a bit OCD and smiles and suggest he can fix my whole studio for me and I will love it!! Not in this life time will he touch my perfect little world. He can do what he wants in the garage but my studio is off limits to him and his ideas. For heaven sake he does not even line up his tools!

Some days it is messy, some days neat and tidy but which ever it is my place to be creative and to dream up new and daring ideas and to play with beads and If I need to line everything up today I will then again maybe today I will be daring and make a big mess!