Arts & Crafts & Other Stuff

Well, not much new going on here on the farm this week, just a few quick updates on crafty stuff and my favorite neighbor.

The neighbors parents car took a dive, but they listed it on Craigslist and were able to sell it for enough money to buy another car... Which ended up taking a dive the next day.
All the money they had went into that car and now it's a driveway ornament. They have it listed on Craigslist and are hoping to at least get enough money out of it to buy something else.
Life can be such a struggle sometimes, but it's amazing how when you get a little distance from your problems the things you thought were so insurmountable were really just bumps in the road.
Trust me on this. I know. I've gone over a lot of bumps.
I think I'll keep my pearls of wisdom to myself though, because we all know how welcome advice from your mother can be :)

The neighbor is growing like a watered weed!
Smiling and starting to laugh, he is the best thing that's ever happened to me since becoming a granny ❤

This was taken while we were driving around looking for a car for his parents.

The sewing is going!

I am loving it even though I have NO idea what I'm doing, but I watch tons of videos and just keep practicing and I'm staring to get the hang of things.

I'm even getting a new sewing machine for my birthday that comes with an instructional DVD and is super new and improved from the 7000 year old one my grammy used that would be loved by any experienced seamstress, just not a newbie like me.

I need something new and improved and self propelled.

here's what I've made so far...

My purse.

My apron.

And a bath mat!

And today or tomorrow I'm going to make this clothesline coil bowl, I just need to go to town and buy some fancy thread.

Are you on Pinterest?

I am and I love it!

I find so many great recipes and craft ideas.

This is me on Pinterest, follow me to see what I find :)

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I've also been busy making a few new rugs.

I did this one...

And this one

And this one is my favorite

It's a 30x20 inch square in front of something rug.

Ok, don't forget to "like" the facebook page and play Funday Monday!

Be the first to leave a comment on the facebook page on Monday mornings and win a little something.

VeeVee Mosher was the fist Funday Monday winner, congratulations VeeVee!!

Just click the facebook link in the sidebar and you're ready to rumble.

Remember, you can't win if you don't play :D

That's all for now, I hear some sheep calling my name.

Along with some dirty dishes and some laundry and OH I made the Country Cooks Coconut Poke Cake last night and it was crazy out of this world delicious!!!

So easy, you have to make it

Coconut Poke Cake

Mine looked JUST like this and I'm not even kidding you it was the best cake ever ever.

Oh, one more thing.

Did you watch the last episodes of Duck Dynasty last night?

I love that show and I sure hope it gets picked up for a second season.

And just another one more thing.

Do you think the kid on the Wizard (Deadliest Catch) is going to be ok?

And what about Jr heading through that pass during the worst storm in thirty years with only one engine...

I don't know how I'm going to make it a whole week till' I find out how things shake out in the Bearing Sea.

Peas.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

I'm blogging on a Saturday to tell you about Monday.
Funday Monday to be more specific :D

Starting this Monday, be the first to leave a comment on the farm facebook page wishing everyone a happy start to their week and be the super dooper lucky winner of something!
It will be be something different each week and you'll never know what you're gonna get, but it will always be something fun, hence the fun in Funday.
You can only win once, so recruit your friends and neighbors to "like" the farm facebook page to increase your odds of winning.
If you're really a die hard want to win something kind of person you can even make your dog or cat a facebook page and enter to win through them ;)

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Okay, go back to enjoying your Saturday and I'll see you Monday!

Sew Sew!

Ok, it's time to do this...

I'm starting with an easy bag (the brown polka dot) because I loaded brown on the bobbin when I was practicing so now I'm committed.

I have picked up a few handy tips from ladies at the fabric store and some online tutorials, but it still seems like things always seem to come up right when you're ready to get started on something...

Don't you hate it when the sheep get in the house and wake up the baby?

Here's another little hitch in my giddy up this morning...

Wendy got me two royal palm baby turkeys for my mothersbirthday present!

William and Kate!


Did I tell you Wendy is sewing too?
She's making teaching herself how to make blankets for a friend who's having twins.

Crafty is as crafty does! :D

Two In A Row!

We did it!
Wendy and I and the neighbor kid schlepped downtown to the big Goodwill yesterday for some sheets and made out like bandidts.

I filled the trunk of my car and didn't even have to dip into to the grocery fund :)

And my washing machine has been running ever since.
As I told you though, there is a price, and it's just not a monetary one, but hey, who doesn't love a bargain and really when you think about it, the gettin is half the fun.

We found a GREAT antique pie case for TWELVE dollars that we're going back for today.
We would have got it yesterday, but we didn't have the truck.
Figures.
I hope it's still there, it will look so perfect in Wendys house, but even if that one's gone there were a few other similar pieces that would freshen up with a coat or two of paint that would look almost as good for the same price.

Today we're packing Purell though because I'm telling you the oog that's left all over your hands is enough to give a girl the heebs.

Um so yesterday I went through my dead clothes drawer and started pulling stuff to toss and decided I would wrap my old most favorite pair of pants around my thighs before I bid them one final adieu and uh, guess what...
After being to much of a fatty pants for the past two maybe even three years to yard them over my big wide arse they slipped right on with room to SPARE!
Not only did I wear them to town but I was having to pull them up all afternoon!
What the hell?
How does that happen?
Maybe when I quit worrying about being a fatty a little bit of my fattiness departed.
Don't get me wrong, I celebrated with a McDonalds ice cream cone and I may or may not have indulged in a Dairy Queen confetti blizzard only the day before, I am who I am afterall, I'm no calorie counting Betty, but hey, if the universe wants to give me a pants pass who am I to refuse!

I'll post pictures of Wendys furniture find on Facebook when we get home.

NEW POST!

Ummm, did you think I fell in the pond?

I didn't, I got a new neighbor.
And seriously, how much blogging would you get done with this guy living across the driveway?

Actually we've been very busy with lots of things, not just the neighbor.
We cleaned the barn and took it from this...

To this...

Still a lot of work to do, but it's a start.
We recovered three stalls, the entire front section and an enclosed run on the outside of the barn.
Now we just have to raise the center section and re roof it.
No biggy :)

We cleaned a big part of the pasture from winter blow downs and overgrowth.
That took days, it's a good thing we had lot's of quality supervision.

I've been making lot's of soap and lot's of rugs and found a new market on Ebay.

Ebay?
Who knew?
I thought the competition would be brutal, but Six suggested I try and I started selling stuff the first day.
But I'm all out of sheets for my rugs now so I have to make the trek downtown to the stinky Goodwill warehouse sorting station where I can get stuff by the pound instead of by the item.
All you need is a good air filtration mask and a hazmat suit and you're good to go for a days worth of picking.
I'll take pictures when I go, but I'm telling you right now it's an unsettling sight.

Last weekend we moved Wyatt upstairs and re purposed his room into a guest room and now I really feel like a granny because in my mind only responsible people and grandparents have guest rooms so that obviously puts me in the category of the latter.
I think I need to paint the room white.
What do you think?

The entire house is paneling and we plan to paint this summer.
Do you have any paneling painting tips?
Maybe the "guest room" will be good practice.

The neighbor's here, I gotta go kiss his face.

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Shave and a Haircut

Let me tell you something...
I forgot what it's like to be the house boss and have to do a bunch of stuff all by myself, but Six going back to work five days a week has been a REAL snap back to the world of how things go!
Now that he's gone all day I have to feed everyone in the barn yard which consists of the sheep the chickens the guineas the geese the ducks the goat the pig the donkeys the llamas and the peacocks.
Then everyone in the house, the fish the birds the dogs and the cats.
Then I have to doctor the gimpy lamb that the goose bit, bottle feed the other three clowns and then send them all out to sheep school in the barnyard so someday they can take care of themselves and move out of my garage.
Oh, and I have to feed Rocket Rabbit who needs to be plucked and spun.

Then I have to do all the other stupid inside stuff like laundry, cooking and dishes.
I could go on, but I'll spare you the rest of the ugly details about cleaning toilets, mopping floors and then somehow still finding time to keep up with everything on my DVR, Facebook, Pinterest and Draw Something.

It snowed here last week.

And then the power went out.
And then I think I got asphyxiated because I carefully set my phone down in a full cup of coffee.
Oh well I got a really cool new phone so it's all good.

WYATT GOT A HAIRCUT YESTERDAY!
He hasn't had one since last May.
I picked up Wendy and the cutest grannybaby in the whole world ever to go to Ikea and run a bunch of errands and then I sprung it to him in the car traveling fifty-five miles an hour down the highway so there was no getting away.
His eyes filled with tears as he hung his head and started to shake, but I'm older and have a bigger brain and this isn't my first go-round with a mood induced teenager and I wheeled that truck into the hair cutting place, drug him out by his little purple bangs and with the threat of computer removal from his room he silently sat awaiting the inevitable.

And he looks FANTASTIC!

And of course he loves it and spent the rest of the night in front of the mirror in the big bathroom with a bucket of Axe hair grease styling and spiking his new do.
He also cleaned his room.
Go figure.

I have found time to do a little soaping.

I made Sexy Little Things by Victoria Secrets for Deb to get back in her good graces after running an expose on to cross or not to cross your legs when you pee.

She's a crosser.

The soaps will be on Etsy soon :)

K, gotta go.

Peas.

Certifiable!

Did it rain at your house yesterday?
It was a monsoon here.
Great big floppy wet rain, all day.
And I got to drive where I didn't know where I was going late on the freeway with no navigation because I went back to my beloved horse and buggy blackberry.

I spent half of what otherwise might have been a just fine day at trailerpark school fulfilling state requirements so as not to be heavily fined or have a lien put upon our property and the worst part of it was they didn't even come close to serving enough brownines and the coffee was bad.
For all twohundred people.
Yes, two-hundred people.
The last class I went to had about twenty-five people.
This class had two-hundred.
One of which was a particularly large woman with a twisted ankle and a cane that kept falling on my foot and a bad habit of never stopping talking
I turned and faced the front of the class so she couldn't see my ears, but she just spun around to the older half deaf man seated behind her at the table and talked to him.
LOUDLY.
The entire time.

The conversations went something like this...

LL (large Lady): Do you have any cats?

HDOM (Half Deaf Old Man): What?

LL: Cats. Do you have any cats?

HDOM: No. I don't like cats.

HDOM: My wife has a cat.

LL: You don't like cats?

HDOM: What?

LL: YOU. DON'T. LIKE. CATS?

HDOM: Yes.

LL: I have seven cats.

HDOM: You have seven hats?

LL: !CATS! I have seven cats.

HDOM: Oh. My wife has a cat.

This went on for four hours.
And I never even get a brownie.

After enduring those four grueling hours of the cat hoarding loud talker I decided to finish off the day with a theme dinner and prepare a long standing family favorite.
Trailerpark Tacos.
If you're familiar with my cooking you know that I serve a number of trailerpark themed dishes, but this is by far one of the best and the recipe has been requested by many one person so here goes...


Trailerpark Tacos
1 thing of crescent rolls
1 lb 80/20 hamburger drained
1 package taco mix seasoning
1 can refried beans
1 little can chopped up green chillies
sour Cream
grated cheese
tomatoes
onions

Put half of the crescent rolls (4) in the bottom of a casserole this size

Not the 9X13, but the square one.

I spray the bottom with Pam first but I don't know if you have to.

Then mix up the beans in a bowl so they get kind of soft and then spread them over the crescent rolls.

Then put the hamburger that you've browned and added the taco seasoning to over the beans.

Then plop some sour cream over the hamburger.

Then add the whole little can of chopped green chillies evenly over all of that.

Then cover that with grated cheese.

Then lay the other four crescent rolls across the top.

Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven until it's done, usually about 10-20 minutes, it just depends how hot your oven runs, but it's done when it's browned.

Then...

Serve and top with sour cream, shredded lettuce, tomatoes, onions, salsa 

(the packages that you get from Taco Bell are the best)

and whatever else you like.

So good!

I am proud to announce that the Sate of Oregon has qualified me to pass the recipe on to you.

It got a little crumpled in the rain.

Peas.