Mrs. Mouse has been busy in the Mouse House kitchen making peach preserves. The mice think the peach flavor goes well with cheese.

I've been ask how those little jars were made. They are created from a product called Easy Cast. It's a two part resin. I used pencil erasers as the mold. I cut the tips off the the erasers so they sit upright. Clean out the eraser dust from each one with a q-tip, then coat the inside with vegetable oil to act as a release.  I set them up on a tray covered with wax paper to protect the table. Mix the resin following the instructions in the box. put a few drips of resin in the eraser then fill with yellow lentils for peaches. Then continue to drip the resin onto the lentils until the eraser is full (I used a coffee stirrer to drip the resin into the eraser). Let that cure. When they're solid, cut the erasers off.  If the jars are cloudy you can paint them with clear nail polish. The jar lids are card stock paper circles punched with a hole punch, they are stacked and glued together and painted silver. I use some sticky tack on a tooth pick to hold the jar lids while painting them. Glue the lids on your jars and your done! I had a few drips of resin on the wax paper that made a nice"spill" in the mouse kitchen.

Here are some jars with other items in them. Some have seed beads, slices of left over eraser tips, pepper corns and the little candies used to decorate cookies. You can make food from fimo or use whatever spices you have in the kitchen.