Pixie's First Egg

Pixie laid her first egg!!!

Here it is-

Isn't it cute?

It looks a lot like Pippa's eggs.

In fact, for a second I

thought, "Hey! How did Pippa get here?"

My little baby is all grown up.

Now she is officially a pullet.

Isn't it amazing, in 5 months, she went from this-

To this?!?

Following Directions

Don't follow MY directions for this craft!

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Instead go to this blog here and follow HER directions.

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I saw these candles and when A. stayed at my house we decided to make them.

I couldn't remember exactly how to make them......so I came up with my own idea.

They look nice, don't they.

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But they are extremely flammable!

We used glue and PAINT mixed together

and then rolled them in cocoa powder

or curry powder.

It was my mom who said, "Isn't paint kind of flammable?"
Doh!
I guess these are just for looks.
This was a very good lesson in reading directions
and not substituting things in a recipe.
Or at least try not to use
such flammable items as substitutions!
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Better luck next time!

Last Day of Summer Tour

Tour my garden with me.

P.S. About halfway through

my shadow does NOT pick its nose!

I was just scratching!

Birdbath, Blooms and Junk

Oh, yeah!

It's JUNKY!

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This is a pic of last Tuesday's haul from Goodwill.

I had my little gardening friend, A., over

and we went crazy.

Then we stayed up until 12 o'clock making

glass flowers!

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Now A. is just as addicted as I am to making

garden (junk) art.

All of our finds - What could we possible DO with this junk?!?!

A teapot birdhouse.

This is a work in progress. It still needs paint and

a cute sign to welcome the birdies.

We are thinking : Welcome feathered friends,

but we're open to suggestions!

A birdbath.
Remember those 4 soda/malt glasses from the first pic?
And the blue bowl?
Here they are reborn!
P.S. It's not crooked - I just have a leaning problem


Top view.

Side close up.

These are the backs of the plate flowers.

You can see the bell hangers in these pics.

A.'s plate flower creation.

She gave it to my 86 y/o grandma.

So sweet!

My plate flower.

The plate is very iridescent in the sun, but

of course the sun WOULDN'T come out!

Congrats! August Winner!

The winner for the August giveaway was poster #3

It is Jennifer from All Because 2 People Fell In Love

Congrats!

Foraging Mushrooms

I went with my mom today to hunt for mushrooms.

It was fun!

I love a treasure hunt.

This is the first one we found.

We took one and left a baby one.

I plan on checking back tomorrow and harvesting the baby.

P.S. I spotted this one first.

My mom with the first puffball mushroom.

It's big!

Some more mushrooms.
We are waiting to test these,
if/when we find our mushroom field guide.

Jack-in-the-pulpit

This puffball my mom spotted.

I walked right by it!

Underside of the puffball.

Neat, huh?

Natural arch.

Anyone know what these are?

We didn't pick them.

Tiny!

Fairy stump.

Cooking the puffballs in butter.

Yummy!

Fly-thru Garden

My garden has become a Fly-thru diner for butterflies and bees.

They love zinnas.

Two Egg Happy Dance

Yay! The Ladies gave me 2 eggs today.

One from Lavender, who has been laying very regularly, and one from Zela.

Zela hasn't layed an egg since Aug. 11th, the day they were taken.

I am so happy!

I think it means they are finally settling into their new home.

Lavender's green egg.


Zela's brown egg.

Silly Little Ray!
He looks so scary in this pic, but he's actually saying,
"Can I come in there? My tummy needs rubbing!"



Lavender

Pixie

Queen of all she surveys.