Soooo what does one get for the chicken loving girl’s birthday? Well, you get a chicken leash and a fashionable chicken hat…
a chicken purse to carry your chicken in…
of course!!
We love you Hazel!!
Granny Chicks
These little sweeties were so much fun to crochet that I didn’t want to stop making them.
It was a lovely way to use up a bunch of scrap colors that I had.
Since each chicken is made out of two Granny Squares I made both sides different…just for the heck of it.
They prettied up real easy in the little cello bags…
and Easter colored curly ribbon.
Ready to take around to my kids.
Happy Holy Week Everyone!
Pattern by Sweet Softies on Etsy
New Chicks In Town
Oooh, how well I remember the days of collecting a million eggs from my sweet little chickens and sharing them with my kids. We LOVE eggs in this family!!
Eventually, my knees got so bad that I couldn’t chase them (Masha) down the street when they’d (she’d) get out. Then, I spent almost a year at my daughter’s house after two knee replacements and a total foot reconstruction. It was a sad, sad day when I had to give my little girlies to a friend with a small farm.
Fast forward to NOW as that same sweet daughter has a flock of chickens all her own and shares the eggs with us. I guess it’s one of those “what goes around, comes around,” sort of things–
just in an eggy sort of way.
Farm Girl Barbie
Okay…this is the coolest Barbie in the whole wide world. I’ve seen all the Astronaut Barbies and the Heart Surgeon Barbie and the Nuclear Physicist Barbie and to be honest, I was never really interested…personally.
Then I saw this pretty little thing and I LOVE her. Oh, she still has the silly lonnnng neck that makes me laugh. But she also has work clothes on and just a regular person face. Thank you very much. Finally.
The best part is still to come…
She’s holding a CHICKEN!! Just as she should be–hahaha!
Yep. Now we’re talking.
Chicken Barbie.
My spirit sister.
Free At Last
The little ladies are soooo excited to be let out in broad daylight–and for longer than just an hour or so just before dusk. This is Ruby saying, “What is all this sunlight about?!”
I really don’t want to donate the entire yard to the chickadees so it’s been the procedure to just give them an hour or so to run around and take dust baths or eat creepy bugs.
But today, is Cinco de Mayo and so the chickies get a holiday. Of course, if they were actual Spanish chickens, they’d likely be celebrating much differently.
Probably in a pot…or in Heaven.
They love me. And they should.
