Taking Time...

Found via Pinterest.

Etsy seller Departika.

LOVE THIS.

Jack's Hat

Another FO! 

This hat worked up in just a few days.  This is the second hat I made from this pattern...

Thorpe by Kirsten Kapur

LOVE Kirsten Kapur (first one was for Eve, you can see it HERE).

Here is the Ravelry Link...

Knit from "Fuzzy Bunny" by Shannon Herrick of The Spun Monkey.

(available in my shop!)

Too cute.

from Rowdy Kittens... 5 Life Lessons Learned from Knitting

LOVE this post from Rowdy Kittens (Tammy Strobel)!

5 Life Lessons Learned from Knitting

AWESOME.... go to her blog and read the entire entry.

This is EXACTLY why I love to knit. She said it so perfectly.

Here is the link to her post~  

Happy Easter!

Goodbye Gram~

My gram passed away this morning.

Five days after her 94th birthday.

May 1970 (that's baby me)

August 2010

Here is a memory list I wrote in 2002 about her... 

(inspired by the book "Creative Utopia" by Theo Stephan Williams)

Grandma Kopp~

Taught me to read

Her love of reading and history

Lived next door my entire childhood

Red Hawaiian Punch drunk from a plastic cup with an attached straw

Her favorite color was green

Wheel of Fortune

Fred Flintstone

Antique Shop

Green Car

Unconditional Love

Solitaire & Gin Rummy

Junk drawer in kitchen

Button Jars

Million magazine subscriptions

Flower in her hair

Moccasins

Intelligence

 Dec. 2002

May 2008

August 2010

Gram and Pop-Pop c.1930s

Goodbye Grandma. 

Bertha Agnes Gipe Kopp

April 6, 1917- April 11, 2011

Chicken Nuggets (cross post)

Cross post from our farm blog~ Peculiar Ambitions~

As requested, here are more Peep pics!

They are 5 days old.

15 Rhode Island Reds. 

They are all healthy and skippy, only one has some poo crusted on her butt feathers. 

We call her Poopsy. 

Tried to get the poo off, but it is ON there. Any suggestions?

Announcing Our FARM blog! Peculiar Ambitions~

This year we are starting our farm business!
Yep, you heard me right, we are going for IT.


We love our farm, have been here for 5 months now, and the p.l.a.n. is for this to be our "jobs"... all four of us... eventually. Not sure exactly what directions this will take, but we don't really care. For now we will not get caught up in the "hows", although we have some really exciting ideas! (not a traditional farm, think "art farm" (classes) with nummy food and produce and critters and yarn and art for sale)~


We are still in the "getting functional" phase and having so much fun.


So, while we are figuring things out, I started a FARM BLOG!


Called Peculiar Ambitions! Which is the name of our farm. We will share our discoveries and all of the exciting things (how many times did I say exciting?) that happen.


I will be annoying you with pesky cross-postings for a while, until the new blog has it's own flow.

Here is today's first post:

Redneck Hippie-Rigged Brooder Box~

We have been deliberating what type of brooder box we will need for our peeps.

Should we use cardboard boxes or storage bins? 

(both of which I was concerned about a fire hazard with the heat lamps...)

Or build one out of plywood? The metal tank brooder thingys at the farm store are too pricey.

This morning we were discussing our options over coffee and Paul went out to see what scrap wood we had in the barn when he walked by THIS...

A crusty old wooden gun case left here by the previous owners. We have not had time to conquer the workshop yet, it still needs unpacked and rearranged.
Good thing, because this gem would have met the burn pile!

He knocked out the gun rack and the drawers on the bottom and laid it on it's back.

Perfection!

Perfect size and the doors work as a lid to keep the heat in at night.

Here it is all set up before the peeps were added.

We since moved it to the cellar under our kitchen.

Since the cellar is under the woodstove, the temperature is about 15 degrees warmer than the workshop.

There you have it, the perfect redneck, hippie-rigged brooder box!

I am so proud.