My eldest ordered a size large costume online; when it arrived it was a YOUTH large. Oops. There wasn’t time to return and reorder, and all the critical identifying marks were on the jacket, so we ripped some seams and turned the buttoned jacket into a vest.
We obtained a black shirt and black pants to go under the vest, and I rather like the crop vest with the long shirt. It is a subtle stylized version of the character.
Turkish drop spindles are very clever, they go together in pieces, spin well, and come apart without disturbing the cop of yarn built up around the arms, but with a Turkish spindle, this bundle of spun yarn is called a turtle. I have seen pictures of some exquisitely wrapped turtles that are art forms in and of themselves. Mine looks more like a nest. I have goals.
I had trouble deciding the title for this post, so I combined all the words for maximum misdirection.
I have a hen, Seashell, sleeping in the nest box at night. Historically when this happens I take the hen off the nest and put her back on the roost with her sisters, which helps break the broody cycle, but this hen isn’t broody. There are no eggs in the nest, and haven’t been since September. They won’t start laying again until February, if they follow the same pattern as the previous three years. She started this behavior after we lost the last chicken, so I’m wondering if the hen that passed was her buddy and she would rather sleep alone than with the flock. Or the other hen offered her protection that is absent with the rest. The flock is quite clicky.
I have another hen sleeping off the roost, but that is Magic, who has periodic leg issues that impede her jumping up to the roost. She sleeps on her pedestal of pine in the left corner of the coop.
Doing the morning school drive there were numerous contrails across the blue sky. One contrail was casting a shadow on the wispy cirrus clouds in the distance. It made a striking effect, and I rolled down the window and took a picture while we were stopped at a light.
I went to my favorite coffee shop and picked up a latte and a couple shots of expresso to go. I drank the latte, but used the expresso to make lots of shapes on water color paper.
My goal is to digitize the coffee stains to make amalgamated coffee art. First up, a coffee tree. Although I intended to use the shapes to make the tree, I decided to also try just painting an evergreen tree with expresso. It turned out great, so that turned into my base image. I scanned everything, including a scattering of sugar sprinkles. I digitally combined the tree, sprinkles, and a precisely placed coffee ring, and am quite pleased with the result. For fun, I changed the color of the sprinkles in Photoshop so I had two options.
These cards are sold exclusively at The Full Cup in Weatherford, TX.
Critters and Craft 