Good and Painty

I'm actually on track for art journaling this year!!
There's a new prompt up at A Year in the Life of an Art Journal...

and I got my page done for Emily's prompt too!!

ALSO...
On Wednesday, I get to go visit my goat dealer, and look into bringing this little guy home along with one other to become my breeding bucks!

Plus, girl to boy rabbit ratio has recently changed... and now I have one buck and two does... I'm hoping baby rabbits are in the future!
Photos of those in the near future... and hopefully this year, I'll be adding Muscovy ducks to my mix.
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Blankets

It snowed today...
It was beautiful. There's just something about the quiet cover that a blanket of snow provides...
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Today was a weird day... feeling low.
Feeling irritated over stupid things.
Feeling sad about things I cannot change.
Somehow, the snow didn't make any of that better...
in some ways, the shut in ness of the day is... I don't know...
MORE.
Like a big fat snowball to the face.

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Remember When?

I was so excited when Emily Falconbridge blogged that she was going to host journaling prompts this year!! I was even more excited that her prompts will be more about the journaling than any art per say... and so I'm going to follow a long with her, and add her journal prompts to the journal I made for A Year in the Life of an Art Journal this year.
Here is my page.

The journaling says:
When I was a little girl, I looked forward to Thanksgiving at gramma's. She used to make her table look so beautiful... I remember how she used her prettiest goblets and made her own napkin rings to match every year. I remember how even us kids got set up with pretty plates, and real glass goblets. She never fussed or seemed worried that we would break anything. She had a special way of making sure we all felt like we were her guest of honor.
The journals I made to sell are also in my etsy shop!

I also have extra filler pages and an embellishment kits! (my journals have an embellishment kit included.)
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Art Journaling 2012

It's that time of year for me... the time when I start wrapping up preparations for A Year in the Life of an Art Journal. I have invited new guest hosts, and will be welcoming back some old ones... deciding what the theme of the year will be...
Just generally prepping for the year to come.
This year, I'm really excited about my journal. I have some ideas that I've had for a while, and this year, I'm taking the chance to share them.
I'm even getting some journals ready to sell. :) Not a lot, mind you, but a couple.
One for me, two to sell.

I'm looking forward to the fact that Emily Falconbridge is sharing some prompts this year on her blog!!
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New Nesting Boxes with 5 gal. Buckets!

I used five gallon buckets to make nesting boxes! I've been wanting to add some nesting boxes to the coop because one of the places the hens lay, they also like to roost, and when they do, their eggs get dirtier than they would if they were nesting in an area they didn't roost. They also like to lay in low places, so I had the idea to create nesting boxes that rested on the floor. I've seen nesting boxes made out of five gallon buckets, (I even had some when I first got hens) so I decided to try them out.

I used a 2X4 under the lip of the buckets, and screwed them into that. Then I used hinges to attach the front panel. It's a cedar fencing plank from Lowe's. That way, I can "open" the nests for cleaning. I keep it closed with hook and eye sets on either end of the planks.
ALTHOUGH
I realized after it was all together, that It would have worked just as well to have simply screwed the front plank into the 2X4. Cleaning would be as simple as turning the set upside down and dumping the shavings that way.

Then I just set the whole deal on the ground in the hen house!
Some photos while I was at it...
Did I do THAT!?

Goat potato chips.

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2012 has begun!

HOLY...
It's a new year.
It's.
A.
NEW.
Year.
What the Frapple happened to the LAST year!?
So much happened in the last year! I felt every up and every down. There were a lot of struggles, but in the end, the year really was good.
At the start of every NEW year for at least four years now, I've chosen a word. I think it all started with Ali Edwards, only I didn't hear about it from her... she calls it One Little Word. The idea when I heard about it, was that you pick one word as the word you'll live the year in the "spirit" of. In 2008, I chose ATTENTION. In 2009, I chose ACTION. In 2010, I chose MUSE. In 2011, I chose PRESENT.
This year, my word is NURTURE.

I hope to live this new year nurturing myself. Nurturing my and other's creativity. Nurturing friendships that nurture ME, Nurturing THIS BLOG!! (I can't believe I only posted here 37 times in 2011.) Nurturing my family, my garden... my heart.

What about you? What are your intentions for the new year? Do you choose a word to live your year by? Have you followed through with that?
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