Worth Cheeping Twice Josh mentions something about "the smart kids" (after just telling me about getting 105% on a spelling test) and I say, "You're ONE of the smart kids!" to which he cries, "I'm Anakin Skywalker!! I've become the VERY thing I have been fighting against!" ~Josh age 12.6 THE COMPLETE COLLECTION
A few months ago, I got some Bantam crossed pullets. Bantams are known for their tendency to go broody (refuse to leave a nest, stop laying eggs and try to hatch something... they will do this with or without fertile eggs, and often without eggs at all!) Most dual purpose chickens (which I have) don't tend to go broody that often, and part of my master plan is to allow broody hens to do my dirty work in hatching and raising chicks for my flock! SO. Enter Bantam chickens. My friend Holly, that I got my first chickens from, and also my goats, offered them to me. I took four. She uses her bantam eggs for her own family, because they are much smaller than normal eggs, and she doesn't sell them to her customers. One of the bantams started LAYING!! OH. MY. GOSH. They are SO cute!! It's not easy to tell in this photo, but it's just under 2 inches long... the lighter egg is a normal chicken egg. I tried putting them in an egg carton for better scale... the bantam egg is the one at the top left. SO adorable!! ETA: took a photo next a ruler. ™ I love comments! Scroll DOWN to comment if you followed a direct link to this post. Scroll UP, to just below the title of this post if you arrived here via a general link to my blog's homepage.
I'm so happy to announce that I FINALLY have an on line class to offer!! To top that off, the on line workshop I'm part of is also home to TWENTY other amazing art journaling artists!! The class/workshop is called 21 Secrets. 21 instructors all in one place, for ONE PRICE. That's 3.00 a class!! Basically, the workshops are all hosted in one place on a ning site. You pay $59.00 and get 21 classes. Within the ning site, there are 21 groups. Each group is a separate classroom where you can visit and learn with other art journalers. Each class is complete with videos (non downloadable) that you can access at your leisure from April 1st to August 1st CLASS HAS BEEN EXTENDED!! Sign up through OCTOBER 2011 and work through JAN 1, 2012!! Each class also has a downloadable PDF so that you can save your classes for anytime AFTER the workshops are closed. There is room within each class area for questions and one on one information from that instructor. It's going to be amazing, and I hope you can come!! If you'd like to sign up through me, I get a portion of all the students that use my referral button. If you want to sign up through someone else, DO IT!! I just want you THERE! I can't wait to see you in class!! Click this image, or the one in my side bar to sign up through me, and to read more about the class at Dirty Foot Prints Studio. When you get to Dirty Foot Prints, click the ADD TO CART button. I don't know how it works, but if you click my link, and sign up on the site, Connie will know where you got to her site from, and I get referral credit! Pretty cool how it all works.
Here's a little bit about what MY class will be about.
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I went outside today and all I could hear was buzzing... I thought for sure there was a swarm of bees somewhere nearby... and then I realized. The plum tree next to me was ALIVE with them. Which reminded me about the swarm that came to our place a little after we moved in here last year. It took up a home inside an old dead tree on the property. I didn't know how big the crevice they lived in was, so I worried this winter that the hive would not survive the winter. Seeing all the activity in the tree outside the house made me go check the dead tree... THEY MADE IT!! I'm really excited, and hoping REALLY hard that I'll have a hive to attract a swarm this year... and hoping that the wild hive makes it through another year here. It's such an amazing thing to literally be able to HEAR the life in the world around you. ™ I love comments! Scroll DOWN to comment if you followed a direct link to this post. Scroll UP, to just below the title of this post if you arrived here via a general link to my blog's homepage.
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