Homemade Vanilla Extract

Back on July 7th, Kristen and I made our own Homemade Vanilla Extract.  We used various blogs from Pinterest to see how to make it.  Here's the vanilla about a month later.

Kristen, picked up these Martha Stewart labels the other day from Staples.  We got white ones a while back but we decided against them when we talked about the design the other day.  Kristen saw these brown ones and knew they would be cute with our bottles.  :)

Here's our design.  I think the vanilla bean clipart is the perfect extra touch.  :)

Printed labels.....OMG!!  :)

We originally had 4 bottles each.  We needed more.  We made a quick trip to Ellwood Thompson's and got more bottles.  I bottled 10 and Kristen bottled 9.  (She bottled 1 larger bottle for herself)

We had a cheese cloth just in case but the coffee filter is actually perfect for this project.  The cheese cloth will be going back to the store.  :)

My Vanilla bottled, labeled and tied with a cute purple gingham ribbon.  :)

My bottle is on the left and Kristen's is on the right.  The bigger bottle is hers to keep.

Cute.....

All 10 of my bottles.....

I can't wait to bake something with my vanilla.  Making your own vanilla is pretty easy to do so I might make some more in the future.  :)  Now, I just gotta decide who gets a bottle from this first batch.