Chicken Obsession

Hello crafters!

Welcome to my blog.

Today I'm showing you a few of the gifts I made

for my husband, Dave, for Christmas.

This past summer, he wanted to redo the "decor" 

in our back yard.  Someone suggested chickens and he

went with it.  Several years ago we bought a 

chicken nesting box while antiquing with some

friends, but it didn't work out where we wanted it 

to go, so it's been sitting ever since.

He mounted that nesting box on the back fence,

and started collecting chickens for the box and 

the fence.

This is what the back fence looks like.

Actually all the spaces in the box have a chicken in them

now.  Next summer he will have more to add to the yard.

It's become a bit of an obsession with him now.

One day I was shopping in Micheal's and cut down the 

fabric aisle.  
(Yes, Micheal's now has fabric!  Very nice fabrics at
great prices.  Not a lot, but some really great patterns)

I happened to see this chicken fabric and had to

get a yard to make pillows for our deck in the back.

I happened to have some pillow forms that someone in 

our buy nothing group had given me and they worked out

perfect.

This chicken can't be left outside, but I knew 

he would love it.

I found the pattern on line and used

some left over yarn to crochet it.

One day, Dave and I were out shopping and he mentioned

that he should have a chicken ornament.

So of course I made him one.

Both of the crochet chickens were whipped up in no time.

They were quick and easy to make and I used

some left over yarns from my stash for both of them.

Yes, I'm feeding his chicken obsession,

but what the heck, it's something fun for both of us.

I also got him a couple more chickens for the yard to

put out once spring comes to 

Western New York.

Thanks for popping in to see what I've been up to.

I hope you will come again soon.

Until then,

find something cute to work on.

 

Christmas Exchange Gift

Hello everyone and welcome!

I know this is a little late, but that's because

our Christmas Crop was late.

Our group always plans our Christmas Crop for

the first Saturday of the new year,

but that didn't work out.

The other gal, who runs it with me, and I 

both had covid, so we had to postpone it.

We ended up having it in mid February.

We bring a gift and do an exchange game.

Here is what I took as my gift.

I crocheted this little Christmas chick ornament.

And a pair of mittens, which I put a gift card for 
Joann's inside one of them.

I also made a "money tree"

I found a piece of tree branch decoration

at the store for 80% off and put that

through the top of a jar lid.
I covered the jar with wrapping paper and

then made dollar origami ornaments.

Here is a boot.

This is a butterfly that actually looks much better in 

real life.

A shirt.

A sail boat.

A duck.

A peacock.

And a leaf.

I had made one of these for a family exchange and

it went over very well.

I think the gal that got it liked it,

but I actually think she liked the mittens even 

more.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you have been inspired in some way.
If you are interested in trying some

dollar origami, just google it

and you will find loads of tutorials online.

I hope to see you again soon.
Until then,

try something new and different.

 

Moose Ornament

I love moose!  Every time we travel in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine I say I am going to see a moose.  Unfortunatly, I never have, but someday I will.  Last time we were in New England, we made a point of asking where the best place to see a moos was and went there.  We sat for a couple hours while the sun went down and it got to be so dark that we wouldn't have seen one unless it walked up next to us.  Didn't see any moose, but we had a nice relaxing evening!

Enough of my ramblings!  Today I'm showing you a moose ornament that I made with Medium Winter Moose from QKR Stampede.  This image measures 3" x 3"  First I stamped it onto white card stock, then colored him with my watercolor crayons. 

I used my Cricut Expressions to cut the snowflake the white on the basic snowflake setting and the green on the shadow setting. 

After I fussy cut the Winter Moose, I used foam tape to attach him to the snow flake.  Then added self adhesive gems to give it a little 'glitter'  There is satin ribbon added to use to hang the ornament. 

I think he is adorable.  What do you think?  Leave me a comment and let me know.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have enjoyed your time here and gotten a little inspiration.  These kinds of ornaments could be made with so many of the wonderful QKR Stampede stamps.  There are LOTS of great Christmas and winter images, in rubber stamps as well as digital, that would work great for this project.  I hope you will stop by and see what you might like.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!