Cherry Creations Arkansas

08/22/2025

Here's what's been keeping me occupied this week in a few pics: 🐂Rendering leaf fat (aka fat from around the kidneys) into beautiful, pristine beef tallow for cooking or skincare! Sourced from our local Mennonite butcher, this is the best part of the fat to render to get that nice, low scent white tallow (although any part of the cow's fat can be used). We're looking forward to when we'll be back at Mountain Home Farmers Market but in the meantime, please go hit up our fellow vendors tomorrow, Saturday, August 23rd, from 7am-12pm on the corner of 5th and Shiras! Show them some love in these lower temps 🍃

08/20/2025

08/20/2025

Here's a special request I had mango habanero jam! It will be available this week... Don't forget tomorrow is the Mountain Home Farmers Market from 7:00 to noon I hope to see everyone there. It's a drive up market due to the fact it's smaller but still lots of awesome.

08/20/2025

08/18/2025

So what are you going to do when you're in the middle of chopping up close to 25 lb of leaf fat to render and slice the top of your thumb open? Go grab your powdered yarrow and slap some on there! Sealed up almost immediately now I can slap a Band-Aid on it, wrap it a little, throw some gloves on and go back to work. I think everyone should plant a little bit of yarrow in their yard for these very times! If you don't grow it, we do sell a bit of dried ground yarrow packets, which is exactly what I used on this. I'll put my before picture in the comments. Extra bonus photo of my kids wrestling the huge, heavy bag for me because I'm still not allowed to lift anything heavier than a jug of milk for another few weeks.

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08/18/2025

🍇The season hasn't been kind to our grapes. We got some, but despite watering, not near as many as we normally do. The heat & dry conditions took its toll. We did get all our elderberries picked & most of them are juiced, still have another batch for tomorrow. We got a bit of a scattered shower earlier & are so thankful!

08/15/2025

Hey y'all, we're still going to be absent from Mountain Home Farmers Market due to my surgery restrictions & Dustin being up to his elbows in grapes lately along with school starting, been a little hectic. Don't forget, if you want to place an order, we can arrange pickup at Mountain Home Farmers Market or we can arrange a meet up/drop off to thru the week!! Won't be too much longer until we're back in the saddle! Miss all y'all 🫶

08/14/2025

🍫Sent 8 samples out to testers today! Still trying to get my Hillbilly Dubai Chocolate just right 😂

Edited to add: pic of the inside by a tester, also "Hillbilly" as in made by one 😂 otherwise it's the typical Dubai - Pistachio Cream (which was made from scratch by yours truly) & Kataifi shredded filo dough for filling, delicious stuff, then a lil edible gold glitter for some bling!! This started because my doc gifted me some of this wonderful chocolate awhile back so started looking into if it could be recreated at home!

08/13/2025

Freshly made Calendula Salve just whipped up this week! Sometimes hard to keep in stock because it's so popular 🌼 This was one of the OG salves Cherry Creations started off making. Our then toddler was battling a few eczema patches & conventional prescription treatments "burned" & "stung" when applied to the point she was in tears😢 We looked into what could help & made this salve. We started using it, which cleared up her spots in a short time with zero tears ☺️ Also started putting it into our homemade lip balms because our son kept getting badly chapped lips too💋 They healed quickly with Calendula. It's also great for dry chapped, irritated, angry skin!

Don't forget, Nature's Way Natural Health/Nature's Way Natural Lifestyle carries all our salves too 😄