Summer Days

I've been wanting to do a picture post since July of some of the things I was into this summer! I'm just now getting around to it, but at least it's getting done right? :)



So, here goes.



One day while the four of us (Dad, Mom, Trissy, and me) were in Wal*Mart shopping for a bird feeder for The Grandparents ( ;) ), I spotted a "Wren House" birdhouse. I love wrens, building, and the shape and design of this little house! "I could make one of those!" So with (alot of) help from Dad, I was able to create a very similar house, and add a few tweaks of my own to the design. I plan to enter it in 'woodworking' in the County Fair next week.











{"Finished Project" picture coming soon!}





Because I was going to be taking a summer class online, and so would not have much of a summer at all really, the four of us had kind of a "summer week". One of the things we did was go hike a trail in our area that we had never investigated before. Between Trissy and me, we got alot of pictures! But rather than bore you with all of them, I'm just posting a sample. :)







This little frog was about the size of a dime!











I wasn't really feeling good that day, but marked it off to the heat and being out of shape for all that walking. Well, apparently I really was coming down with something. I don't know what it was, but I sure felt miserable! Nothing soothes quite like a nice cup of hot chocolate though - even in the summer!







This is just a little something we thought was funny. The picture isn't good quality, but maybe you get the point. :)









We've also been working on some much-needed clothing.





Something we've really been needing is some new Sunday clothes. You can't hardly find anything decent in the stores, or even patterns for that matter. But we did finally find some patterns that, with just a little tweaking, I think will work.

We started cutting out my first dress the other day. I hope to have it done this week, so I can enter it in the County Fair next week. I'll try to post a picture when it's finished.







One more thing that I'm very thankful the Lord helped me get accomplish before school started, is {drumroll} a craft blog! I am really needing an 'outlet for my creativity' so to speak. My creations are piling up in my closet, and in various boxes, totes, bags and corners all over the house! And I'm running out of room for supplies for new projects. So, since I don't have an Etsy shop, a blog seemed the way to go. I am desperately trying to learn how to make a blog button, but since I don't have one yet, I'll just post the link:



http://www.handworked.blogspot.com



You can cut and paste it into your browser, or (if you like the easier road ;) ) you can just click here -> HAND WORKed





The rest of these pictures are just random summer snapshots. :)























SOLI DEO GLORIA!



-Kyrie<><

Chick Stuff - Advice Anyone?

My little bird seems to be over the ant bites - by Sunday afternoon he was much perkier, and now seems like his old self. I am thankful the Lord sees fit to even care about the 'insignificant' things like hurt little animals. Or maybe it's that He cares about us, and our attachment to them :). At any rate, I'm glad He saw fit to right my mistake (leaving the chick in the yard in the first place). The only problem is, I am now going to have to re-think my 'solution' for the chick's independence. Because of the ants, the cage I was going to use will not work - the ants could crawl right up and over the lower boards. I thought of sprinkling poison around the cage to prevent that, but then the other chickens might get in it (especially the four young ones - they are still pretty dumb Lol). Then I thought, "What about a 'moat'?" you know, like they had around castles in the old days. The ants couldn't get through water. Now, that's all well and good, but where am I going to find a portable moat?! I can't build it - water would seep through wood, plastic would have to be cut, molded, and caulked together (which I wouldn't know how to do) and metal would be the same problem, except that would be even trickier, 'cause it would envolve sautering (spelling-?). Besides, I haven't got alot of money to spend on this whole little situation here. Here is a drawing I did of the idea:



The cage would sit in the hollow space inside.

Does anyone have any advice on how I could build or find something like this? I would really appreciate any tips!