4 posts from 2009

Here are my babies! (baby chickens that is)

May 18, 2009
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Here is shy little Blackie that was supposed to be Black Astralorp Rooster, but now I am not so sure.

Sweet little Hannah, who started out all grey and is growing lovely white feathers. Her feet are almost green. She is somewhat freindly, somewhat shy.

Funky

I named this one Funky chicken because she looks so different from all the others! She is very curious and pecks at everything! Her feathers are taking a long time to grow in.

roxy

Little Roxie is int the upper right. She refused to come closer to get a bettter picture. She is deep brown color with black bars. She is also shy and seems smaller than some of the others.

bloody butt

I will have to pick out a new name for this one but for now I call him bloody butt. I am wondering if he is a rooster. He got pecked and lost quite a few tail feathers but he seems to be recovering fine. He definitely rules the roost and is very curious and aggressive.

Sarah

This one is my husband's favorite. Very very curious and also very freindly. She is one of the first to explore anything new. I love how her feathers are turning a beautiful red brown.

Pirates!!!

May 12, 2009
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We went to Kaden's Pirate themed birthday party on Saturday. I made a pattern and whipped up 3 vests for the Birthday Boy and my older 2 sons, Paul and Kyle. Rick got to wear an earring and bandana. I was pretty proud of the costumes. Even Sean helped by cutting out cardboard swords!

Inchies!

Jan 28, 2009
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I very recently discovered inchies! I joined a swap on craftster to make and receive some of these great little works of art.

There are whole blogs devoted to these!

http://smallworldofinchies.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/inchies/
http://artjunk.typepad.com/art_junk/square_love/

Other people have made tutorials, and probably many have had similar ideas as mine, but here is a quick tute of how I am making a base to start my inchies.

This is the end product: (i know I always like to skip to the end to see what it looks like first. :) )

Inchie bases

I really like faces. I plan to embelish these more with markers, words, or machine stiching.

I gathered some supplies:

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I used a manila file folder to make a stiff base. I also used a glue stick, scissors

and a small paper trimmer.
I cut the folder into strips and then squares using the paper cutter. Man inchies are small! A 1 inch square does not seem very big at all. Than I traced one of my squares and cut it out to make an inchie view finder.

I desecrated this book to get my inchies:

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I know that you could scan or copy the pages first but I was in too much of a hurry. Plus as a bonus I managed to get 2 of the exact same book! However, I found that I wanted inchies on both side of the same page. Now what?
I held my page up to the light and glued a cardstock square to the back.

Hold up to light

Glue the inchie base

The great thing about this glue is I can kinda wiggle the square around until i am pleased with the framing of the image. Remember that images slightly off center can be more eye catching (check out the rule of thirds for art).
Now I added some more squares to the other faces I wanted.

Check both sides of page

Two sides of page to use

Once all squares are glued in place I can cut them out without fear of ruining another image!

Cut out images

Now I just need to embellish! I will probably add some mod podge over the whole thing to protect and seal the surface. Hope this helps someone! Leave a comment if you have a question or if you liked this technique! :)

Need Help!

Jan 14, 2009
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We purchased these toys at a yard sale:

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I believe that there is more than one set involved here. We would really like some more information on these cool space toys. What model are they? are there any instructions? any other pictures? If you don't want to comment please email me at lukenlarry at yahoo dot com