Picket Hangers

Is there no end to what you can do with left over fence pickets?

I think not!

Here are some of the latest things I've done with them.

Hope you enjoy.

I think they will work well for hanging most anything,

such as coats, aprons, leashes, hats, jewelry.

What ever needs hanging, they will work!

Most of the hooks were put on pickets,

but on some of them I used old drawer fronts.

A close up of these sweet birds.

A little flower power.

Nice little welcome signs.

One of my favs.

Or maybe this is my fav. 

I love birds.

The whole group for now.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth...

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Making a picture frame from old fencing

Well here's another use for recycling old fence parts.

I needed a rustic looking frame for a painting that I had finished.

The pickets were too short so I used the cross piece

that the pickets were attached too.

Here they are in there unfinished glory.

 After scraping and sanding most of the paint off the boards

my dad made the frame for me.

I then stained and added poly.

Here's the finished work.

Here's a close up showing how rustic it looks.

I thought the paint showing through

 added to the look of age.

One final view.

I hope the scripture will speak to you.

May the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in everyway.

The Lord be with all of you. 

2 Thessalonians 3:16

COCOA

I thought I'd post a photo of Cocoa

just because she's sooooo cute!

A while back I mentioned that Cocoa was sick.

It was finally diagnosed that she has an auto immune disease.

She has blood work done every three months and is treated with steroids. 

That usually puts her back in a good way.

Although this is not curable the goal is to keep it steady and under control.

Meanwhile we'll just keep loving and enjoying her.

She's so adorable.

On another note. Happy anniversary to me. I've been blogging a year in January.

I didn't start blogging to make any kind of money

 just a way to post my before and after pictures of my painted furniture.

At the time I had no idea I would be getting chickens in the spring. I'd wanted some for

a while but figured in was in the future. 

Let me say that having chickens has been one of the most enjoyable

things I've done. They are so much fun, plus you get eggs!

Sharing my chicken adventure has been very enjoyable.

I certainly like reading about other bloggers and there animal activities.

I hope others have enjoyed mine.

More adventures to come I hope.

But ask the animals, and they will teach you,

or the birds of the air, and they will tell you...

In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

Job 12:7,10 

Cereus, A Night Blooming Cactus

I thought it might be nice to dream of something that blooms in the

summer on these cold and icy days.

I ran across these pictures of this remarkable cactus.

  It's called Cereus and it only blooms at night. 

It is very fragrant. It smells like a sweet lotion.

Enjoy.

This is the pod which starts to slowly open before nightfall.

Slowly opening. Notice it's now dark.

A little more.

And finally this beautiful flower  is open. 

 It's around 11:00 p.m.

Isn't it gorgeous?

And it smells so sweet!

What a lovely specimen of God's creation.

God is so magnificent!

You will seek me and find me

when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

IDEAS FOR FENCE PICKETS

When we replaced our white wooden fence with vinyl

I thought, what will I do with all these pickets.

Since I like to re-use things and turn them into something else,

these are a few of the things I have come up with. So far...

The fence looks pretty rough. I've repainted it for years

but I was really getting tired of that. So last year we finally replaced it.

After taking it apart my first idea was fish.

After scraping and sanding and doing a little sawing

these are what I came up with.

After painting, here are some of the fish.

I've made schools of them.

My next idea was a flag.

Here is Old Glory.

Here's a Christian Flag.

 One of my favorite flowers is the poppy.

After trimming the pickets to a certain size

I formed a canvas out of wood.

And voila! 

A Poppy.

Another strange flower on a wood canvas.

I had odds and ends of cut off pieces.

So wood art is what I came up with

Most of these have a bell or snowflake attached to it.

There's also some rooster art.

This is a small wood canvas about 10x12.

I stenciled on this one.

I had so many fish, another idea I came up with was to add pegs to them.

To hang aprons, a coat, dog leashes, or whatever.

These go up and down.

These go across.

They're more of a coat rack.

Or whatever you want!

Since I had some cut off pieces of the top of the pickets

I thought they'd make a great Grinch.

One of my favorite things is my Chicken Art for the Hen House.

That's Bouffant and Slippers at the coop door.

They're so little there.

And last but not least is my picket Snowman.

He can hang on the wall, a door or any narrow space.

And that's it so far.

I'll be coming up with more ideas in the future.

Hope you enjoyed these.

We live by faith, not by sight.

2 Corinthians 5:7

The Mystery Solved

And the winner of the green egg laying is:

Sadie.

 Because yesterday when I went out to collect the eggs

we had another addition to the egg pool.

It was Bouffant's tiny egg.

After doing more research on white silkies I found out

that they lay white or creamed colored eggs.

There blue earlobes have nothing to do with the color of the eggs

on a silkie as I had heard before.

 As you can see, her egg is smaller then the others.

And here's the little egg layer herself.

Isn't she cute?

Now the only one left who hasn't started laying is Penny.

She should start anytime now.

Maybe even today!

The wait continues.....

Lets go Penny!!

Colossians 3:15

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,

to the which also ye are called in one body;

and be ye thankful.

The First Green Egg

We finally had our first beautiful green egg a few days ago.

It will join the other beautiful brown eggs.

This is Copper. 

She's the first of our egg layers.

Her eggs are a darker brown.

This is Blackberry and she lays a light brown egg.

Here's a look at the different color of eggs.

The top is the green layer, to the left is Copper's

and to the right is Blackberry's.

This is Sadie.

She's a green egg layer.

 And this is Bouffant.

She's also a green egg layer.

 And for now I don't know which one is laying the green egg.

They are both the same age, over 6 months old.

I guess time will tell.

Looks like we can now have green eggs and ham.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God.

May Your gracious Spirit lead me on level ground.