Black Walnut Crafts

On Sunday we attended an Art Sale...they are always fun to attend.
Since we have a Walnut Tree at home...we found these crafts very interesting!!
Items made from Walnut Shells!!

A Trivet

A Bowl

Magnets

Walnut Harvest

It has been interesting watching how our walnuts 'ripen'....the green coverering opens... (I wondered how that was going to turn into a walnut).

You don't pick walnuts off a tree...you pick them off the ground...so right now mornings are like an Easter Egg hunt.... picking up walnuts!!

Then we wash them...

Then hang them to dry... they say the dryer they get the easy to crack open...

I posted here on the next step of the walnuts...as we had friends give us a bag of there's from last year!

Walnuts...in the valley

Hubby was so excited when he found out we had a Walnut tree in our yard!!
This is our tree in May....

They haven't changed much in the last couple months.
I didn't know....you don't pick the walnuts off the trees....they fall off when they are ready.

Friends of ours had BAGS of walnuts from last year...and they gifted us a bag....

We spent an evening cracking them...

Then roasting them...(and eating them:)

They are delicious....We are looking forward to our walnuts this fall!!