For the love of guacamole

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My good heavens, do we ever LOVE guacamole. Both Justin & I have our own methods of preparing it. His is garlicky and chunky, full of flavor, but really focuses on that sweet and delicious avocado. Mine is more like a real dip, extended with gracious amounts of peppers, onions, shallots, coriander and cherry tomatoes. Seriously, we eat this stuff at least once a week.

Which leaves me with a lot of avocado pits.

Avocado pits are ridiculously easy to sprout, and my love of sprouting things makes them impossible to throw in the compost: I just can’t. But it got to the point where our window sill and entire kitchen counter was COVERED in avocado pits.

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What is a girl to do? A perfectly good houseplant is just around the corner (as is Christmas!). I have been wanting to make shelves for the windows for as long as I can remember, but it would mean I’d have to go somewhere to get wood, then use screws or something to secure them… and really, “ain’ nobody got time f”dat.”

So I thought, “hey! I wonder if I could macrame a continuous jar hanger in the window.” And so I tried with one strand and it worked!

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And that was cool, and everything, but I didn’t so much enjoy all of the jars being exactly the same in the hanger, so I did another, then another, and, well… you can see how it goes from there!

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And that was really cool, but nowhere NEAR as cool as how it looked at NIGHT!

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You can even see to the left a couple stray avocado pits. Currently there are about 9 on the counter, so I’ll have to take the ones that have sprouted out of the jars, actually pot them with dirt, and then put these new pits in the window.

I will probably do this on all my windows because I think it is just  so lovely while adding a bit of privacy.


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