I found a really super cool chanderlier on Hometalk.com Great site. This was from another blogger
great and interesting site that shows off all kinds of garden art. I must try this and then upload my version.:)
see you soon.
Welcome to my Blog, where I will share with you my latest Artwork, Art Stores, DIY projects, Recipes and other stuff. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoy creating it. Linda
I sell on Zazzle and Etsy
Friday, February 22, 2013
Found a really cool chandelier for the birds!!!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
CHICKEN UPDATE
Hi Everyone, I wanted to keep you up to date on our growing family of chickens.
 As you may remember, last March John and I decided try our hand at raising chickens and we bought a dozen. They are all grown up now. I had no idea they would be so much fun. We bought 8 Barred Plymouth Rock Hens, 3 Rhode Island Red Hens and a Welsummer. |
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| 16 week old Barred Plymouth Rock Hen |
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| same chicken approx 11 months old |
So my young chickens have all grown up and I'm having so much fun with them. They follow us around the yard. mainly because we always feed them!!! they see us as the lunch truck and do a flying run over to wherever we are!!! Hilarious. It doesn't matter where we go on our 5 acres of land, if the chickens are out of the coop, they will find us and hang around. I love it.
As they were growing up we found out that one of the chickens, The Welsummer, was a rooster. Beautiful he was. I originally called her Gertrude but when I found out she was a he I renamed him Graham. Bummer, I loved that bird, but he had to go. We gave him to friends of ours who own Golden Gate Nursery in town and they gave him to a farmer . Not sure if he became dinner. We know we are not mentally ready or prepared for a rooster to fertilize the eggs and give us chicks. We need another coop and an area for the hatchlings and more knowledge. We have read many books, articles and magazines about raising chickens and decided to try it the easy way for now and not deal with roosters and chicks. Before Graham left though he was like a randy teenage boy, wanting to "you know what" to all the girls!!!
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| My Welsummer Rooster |
As they were growing up we found out that one of the chickens, The Welsummer, was a rooster. Beautiful he was. I originally called her Gertrude but when I found out she was a he I renamed him Graham. Bummer, I loved that bird, but he had to go. We gave him to friends of ours who own Golden Gate Nursery in town and they gave him to a farmer . Not sure if he became dinner. We know we are not mentally ready or prepared for a rooster to fertilize the eggs and give us chicks. We need another coop and an area for the hatchlings and more knowledge. We have read many books, articles and magazines about raising chickens and decided to try it the easy way for now and not deal with roosters and chicks. Before Graham left though he was like a randy teenage boy, wanting to "you know what" to all the girls!!!
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| a Rhode Island Red Hen |
We were going along in life with our 11 chickens when one of our friends asked if we would like to buy her chickens. We didnt really want anymore as we figured that 11 chickens x250 eggs a year was good enough for us, so we declined her offer. A week later she called back and asked if we would please take the chickens as she lost 4 of the 9 to a racoon over the weekend. Oh man, my heart went out to her and we decided to take the chickens. She gave us 4 Barred Plymouth Rock Hens and a Rhode Island Red. We told her she can come and visit them anytime she wanted too. Well, we slowly introduced the new 5 chickens to our brood, the new ones are only about 14 weeks old, so the older chickens were not very nice to them. But they have been with us now for a few months and they have all found their social status. BUT, guess what... one of the new flock is a damn ROOSTER!!!! We realized as the new Rhode Island Red starting growing up the SHE is a HE. Now we are back in the same position. He will have to go. BUT he is so beautiful, its really a shame. With everything we have going on right now we can't keep him. One day we will keep a rooster.
Now he is the Randy Teenager trying to mount all the Hens. BUT again learning as we go, the older Hens will have nothing to do with him. When he does "get" a girl, the older hens run over to him and peck him off her then chase him around the yard. The girls become quite adamant that he stay away from them. They get mad. They even ruffle their feathers and fight back to make him go away. I didnt know they did that. It is the funniest thing to watch. So pretty soon we will have to get rid of this rooster. It is a shame as he also is a beautfiul bird.
One fact I thought interesting about chickens is that most of the chicken meat you purchase at the grocer stores are roosters. It seems they are only good for one thing. And seeing as 1 rooster can service 10 hens, I can see why an abundance of roosters go to market!! .
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| our young Rhode Island Red Rooster |
Now he is the Randy Teenager trying to mount all the Hens. BUT again learning as we go, the older Hens will have nothing to do with him. When he does "get" a girl, the older hens run over to him and peck him off her then chase him around the yard. The girls become quite adamant that he stay away from them. They get mad. They even ruffle their feathers and fight back to make him go away. I didnt know they did that. It is the funniest thing to watch. So pretty soon we will have to get rid of this rooster. It is a shame as he also is a beautfiul bird.
One fact I thought interesting about chickens is that most of the chicken meat you purchase at the grocer stores are roosters. It seems they are only good for one thing. And seeing as 1 rooster can service 10 hens, I can see why an abundance of roosters go to market!! .
Have a great day:)
Linda.
Friday, February 15, 2013
homeroad: Love-ly Pillows
homeroad: Love-ly Pillows: I love pillows! And what a great Valentine for someone... I posted about these pillows back in 2011... They were a favori...
Coffee Drive for Charity
Hi friends
I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day. It was a good one for me too. Love my husband very much :)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day. It was a good one for me too. Love my husband very much :)
As most of you know I am not only an artist I am also an Organo Gold Distributor. I love the healthy beverages that we have. They not only taste great, but they are good for you too.
I am now throught April 30th running a personal campaign to raise money for non-profit organizations. I want to sell 100 boxes of coffee products and give my profit to "The Shelter for Abused Women and Children" in Naples Fl. They have a wonderful organization that help women and children in need.
http://www.naplesshelter.org/
http://www.naplesshelter.org/
Please would you help me support them by buying a box or 2 of coffee? go to www.lindafraine.organogold.com and purchase a box to help this organization.
It is unfortunate that we need organizations like this in this world. I know many people who are glad that they exist.
Monday, February 11, 2013
New Greeting Cards in my Webstores
I was having so much fun with my husbands birthday card I decided to put it on Etsy and see what happened. Well...I sold 2 of them right away. I decided to tweak the design for Valentines Day and WOW I sold 4!! in 3 days. Having fun here.
Im liking theses card designs. I just designed 2 more and have a whole lot of them to do yet. So stay tuned for the new ones.
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| Happy Valentines Day |
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| Happy Birthday to your Love You can go to my Etsy Store and purchase these as of 2-12-2013. These are brand new and are not up for sale until tomorrow. Stay tuned for Mothers Day, Fathers Day and more....... gotta keep it fresh!!!! Have a great day. Hugs Linda |
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