Finishing My Vanilla Extract

I brought it up from the basement today to bottle.

I put some paper towels in a colander with a pan underneath to catch the vanilla seeds.

See all the black vanilla seeds?

Gwen was a great helper.

She didn't like the "dirt" on her hands though.

I should've gotten bigger jars and I shouldn't have labeled them until after I filled them.  Stuff goes everywhere.  Ah well... next time.

Her job was handing me the lids when I asked for some.

The finished products. :)

We're drying the beans to put in some sugar to make vanilla sugar.

Can you tell it's been cold out?  We've done lots of crafts to adorn our walls.