Go check out this nice giveaway over at Down on the Farm!  She has some wonderful wool bags in her store, too. Link to the store is on her blog!

I’ve been quite preoccupied lately and haven’t posted like I should.

I thought the best way to catch up would be to catch up with photos.

Here we go!

Here are some pictures of our farm. It is pretty much a “clean slate” for us to start with, just a small amount of clean up work. We will plant fast growing trees around the back and side property lines as a windbreak and also to hide the view behind us.

February 20 would have been my Mother’s 84th birthday. We had our first two Serama’s hatch that day. Felicity named the first to hatch Tina. I named the second to hatch Nonnie. That is what my Mother’s grandkids called her, and being her birthday, I felt it appropriate. If it turns out it’s a boy, we will call him Jack instead. Jacqueline was my Mother’s middle name.
This is Tina.

This is Nonnie. The baby chicks love Beanie Babies to nestle up to.

Here are the two of them together.

Gregory loves to hold the chicks and is a very good incubator monitor. Here he is holding Tina.

We also celebrated the birth of our first Naked Neck (Turken, aka Transylvania Naked Neck) chick. Her name right now is Liza, but if it turns out to be a boy, will be Curly.

Mike once told me he thought the Sicilian Buttercup chickens were pretty neat. Since they are on the critically endangered list, I though I would surprise Mike with some eggs for these chickens. He thought it was neat, but we figured we wouldn’t be able to keep the chicks, since they are LF (large fowl, meaning full size chickens, not bantams). Well, once we signed the papers on the farm, he decided he wants to keep them and raise the breed. Here are his first chicks to hatch this past week.

Here’s ONE ROTTEN CHICKEN, Gabe!

Yet another baby in the house, Bunny is her name.

I am participating in Judy’s Quilt a Long over on her blog at PatchworkTimes. Here are the HST (half-square triangle) sections that were the assignment for part 2.

Last but not least…a full incubator! 75 eggs inside!

Have a wonderful Sunday evening!

Here’s my breakdown for week 8 & 9.

Fabric added this week:  0
Fabric added year to date:  24.5

Fabric used this week:  4 (some used, some sold on etsy)
Fabric used year to date:  31

Yarn added this week: 0 skeins
Yarn added year to date:  3 skeins

Yarn used this week:  0 skeins
Yarn used year to date:  7 skeins

Well, today was supposed to be a day of sewing on quilt blocks for Felicity and I during Judy’s Quiltathon.  We got nothing done today because….

We signed the papers on our 5.4 acres of land for our farm today!!!  We even got a farm truck along with it!!!  We are all eggstatic (lol). It needs a bit of clean up work, but nothing serious.  It is down the road from where we used to rent before moving to our current rental house.  We looked for land when we moved out of that place, but could find nothing where we wanted to be in our price range.  God made our week this week AWESOME!

Also, obviously I was off count on hatch day for the first of the many batches of eggs in the incubator.  I had planned on hatch day for Sunday. We had 3 baby chicks hatch yesterday and 4 so far today. WHEW! What a tired Chicken Mommy I am tonight.  Photos to come soon.

So in getting back on track for the Quiltathon, tomorrow I will have photos as proof that Felicity and I are participating lol. We’ve got so much to do and are excited to have the day after Mass to work on it all while Mike is at work.

I recently participated in the Sassy/Flirty Apron Swap. 

It was so much fun! I designed my own apron pattern for my swap partner, Diane in Arkansas, and it turned out great!

Here’s a photo of the apron I made and the goodies I sent to Diane:

Here’s all the goodies I sent with the apron:

This is the goodies all wrapped up and ready to mail. I used a half yard of Vintage Valentine print fabric as the wrapping “paper” and rick rack for the “ribbon”.

 

I received the most awesome country apron from Martha in New York.  She couldn’t have done any better a job picking fabrics that define me!

Here’s all the goodies Martha sent me.

This swap was so much fun! I can’t wait to do another!

Here’s my breakdown for week 7.

Fabric added this week:  5.5
Fabric added year to date:  24.5

Fabric used this week:  23 (some used, some sold on etsy)
Fabric used year to date:  27

Yarn added this week: 0 skeins
Yarn added year to date:  3 skeins

Yarn used this week:  3 skeins
Yarn used year to date:  7 skeins

Here’s my breakdown for week 6.

No progress this week.  At least I didn’t add anything, either.

Fabric added this week:  0
Fabric added year to date:  19

Fabric used this week:  0
Fabric used year to date:  4

Yarn added this week: 0 skeins
Yarn added year to date:  3 skeins

Yarn used this week:  0 skeins
Yarn used year to date:  4 skeins

Here’s my breakdown for week 5.

Fabric added this week:  11
Fabric added year to date:  19

Fabric used this week:  4
Fabric used year to date:  4

Yarn added this week: 0 skeins
Yarn added year to date:  3 skeins

Yarn used this week:  3 skeins
Yarn used year to date:  4 skeins

I have admired De’s dolls and patterns on etsy for quite some time.  I was so thrilled when I found she is having a drawing to give away one of her precious dolls! 

 Click here or on the photo to go to her blog and register to win! You don’t have to be a fellow blogger to win, just leave a comment and your email on her post.

I’ve decided to join Judy at Patchwork Times for her weekly stash-busting reports.  My main New Years’ resolution was not to purchase fabric or yarn unless I have a specific project in which to use it.  So now, I want to use up what I have along the way, as well.

Here’s my breakdown for my first week, which is the 4th week of the year.

Fabric added this week:  8
Fabric added year to date:  8

Fabric used this week:  0
Fabric used year to date:  0

This is going to be great fun for me.  I’m considering doing the same thing for my yarn, too.