Have you seen the full moon? Yeah!? Well, so have my emotions. My GOODNESS does that moon ever take me for a spin! You'd think I'd get used to it, but I don't. Hopefully, Alan will. *grin* Good news, we have a new baby! This little chick hatched yesterday. We're keeping it in the hou...

This week's High Hopes blog challenge is hosted by ME! The theme for this week's challenge is Zigs & Zags! You can interpret that any way you'd like. I chose to keep my card pretty simple, to not take away from the cute bunny image Crissy illustrated. Originally, I'd planned to u...

I had some potatoes that had gotten soft and wrinkly, so this afternoon I decided to cut them up and give the chickens a treat. They get to scratch around the yard for snacks all day, but they get REALLY excited when they get treats from the house. Here's one of the Golden Polish girls who found...

 I had a ball making this card tonight! I wanted kind of a shabby vintage look to the project, so I chose this great "aged" gingham paper from the "Margo" packet of 12x12 paper from K&Company. I used my new Wildflower Silhouette set along with the butterfly trio punch f...

Good morning, and HAPPY MONDAY! I'm so excited, I actually have the day off! A three day weekend ... YAHOO!! I plan to just dink around the house... do some farm chores, some house chores, and be crafty. What fun! The Crafty Secrets girls decided to do a "spring" themed challenge for t...

Yesterday, at 5:30pm, Dixie's Chick delivered her first calf! And, as it turns out, he's our first calf of 2009, too! Alan went out to check on Chick around 5:00 yesterday. When he saw that she was showing signs of labor, he ran back to the house to get me. Sure enough! Two little white hoov...

  We've been busy busy busy making more felt ornaments! Here's a cute little blue bird I made last night who's snuggled up in a red wooly scarf. I stitched on some sparkly beads and added a little white jingle bell. The birds body is lightly stuffed with polyfill stuffing.   ...

I can't even begin to tell you just how hard I've been laughing, for two days now! Yesterday evening, Tiny Tim started crowing. We've never heard him crow before, and it's likely that he's just now figuring out how. The nights have been in the low 30s to high 20s, and that's just too cold for Tiny T...

It's so exciting to have our hens starting to lay eggs! We have 10 Cuckoo Marans hens who lay lovely dark brown shelled eggs. Here are some of the eggs from the past few days. It's a riot to see some of their first eggs as their bodies figure out how things are supposed to work.  Yeste...

Here's another fun project I finished up this past weekend. I tell ya, since it wasn't snowing outside, I went all out for snowflakes inside! The large snowflake is a rustic laser cut wood ornament, 5" wide. While it was nice as bare wood, being dressed up with glass glitter is even bet...