Adventure Discover in a different Manner

This is my first post for the Daily Post Discover challenge, which is here :  Daily Post Weekly Discover Challenge.  They take a blog post on discover ( Find this on the upper left of your menu in your reader. ) and use one chosen off that link for a theme.

This week the theme is ” Adventure.” They chose a great blog to “play off of” on hiking “adventures” ( If you like outdoors or hiking, in general, go check it out.) Maps, beautiful pictures and posts on stuff needed for hiking and more. The link above will take you there by way of this Daily Post.

I haven’t been hiking for a few years and feel really bummed. It is not my top hobby or sport like it is for them, but I used to do it for exercise a few times a year. Needless to say, busy life has gotten in the way. Once and awhile I schedule it and something always comes up. What a great motivator and reminder this blog is.

But every day can be an adventure for me.

It’s an adventure to come with ways to use items in the crafts I love to do:

 

Using up things like these into something new. I am really into recycling or maybe it is called up-cycling?

 

Or These Buttons.

 

Bowling Pin Necklaces?

 

 

 

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I Bring The “Beach” Inside

I thought I would join in this week with something I haven’t participated in for awhile, The Word Press Daily Prompt.  Besides, I love the theme of “Beach” ………

Daily Prompt On Word Press

It has been years since I went to any ocean beach. I had relatives when I was young that lived in the coolest town named Mukilteo.

The place is close by Everette, Washington State. These were my Pacific Ocean Days.

I lived In Florida- Pensacola for several years. Those were My “Atlantic Ocean” Days. Which ocean do you prefer? I actually like the wild Pacific, but then when you are a kid it just seems a tad more magical, so I may be biased because of age.

Now I am so far away from those beaches in Missouri.

There are some nice shorelines around other water bodies here, but I miss the ocean trips.

So I came up with an idea to correct in my own home, the ocean:

Wood and Rock Sailboat on beach wall art.

 

 

Miniature Owl relaxing by the water on the beach. For sale in my Etsy Shop: Dappled Moon Fancies .

Surreal Chickens and Hot Glue Stencils

So what do the 2 things in my post have to do with each other?  Well, nothing really unless I get a chicken stencil made soon. I think I will want to do that next time I do some more of these:

My first try at hot glue stencils. Hearts and Christmas stuff to use to make cute cards for my shop @https://www.etsy.com/shop/DappledMoonEmporium?ref=ss_profile

These are the ones that did not turn out so well, but can still be used though really not for what they were supposed to be.

So as I explained, I really would love to do one of these for a chicken. I also want to do some flowers. Maybe a mountain. They do not look the best, but I have watched other crafters use them on video and the art they did was really wonderful.

I just wanted to show everyone what I have been doing lately.

Now, about that chicken.

So I wanted to share my glue crafting supplies I made myself, but just knew that when I saw this I had to share it somewhere:

I did not think this was real , but supposedly it is a totally black chicken that has just been developed.

This would make the perfect Halloween chicken. I know we already passed Halloween by this year, but this is one creepy chicken breed. Pretty, but creepy.

What do you all think? Have you seen these?

HANDMADE HYACINTH

HANDMADE HYACINTH. This is on my docket this week;  I just moved into a cute 1 bedroom apartment I was waiting 4 months to open up. Needless to say, I need something fresh, bright and new for my lovely windowsill. It is always an excuse to make something handcrafted myself also.

My weekend wanderings are taking me to visiting “fresh pressed blogs” I discovered on my own, it being too hot now to venture forth outside.

I am thinking there are also other flower tutorials on this site. Enjoy these on the first actual days of summer.

 See link for directions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge 2 Fit with My Monday Mood-ANIMALS-Chickens

Our pretty “Little Black Hen.” had her 3rd large hatch of chicks last week. We were also given 2 chicks old enough to leave their mom which stick together like glue and give me lots of laughs. So this week for the challenge; I am sharing my little chicken  farm.

Mama hen with a couple of her ten peeping from underneath. It Very hard to get close to them and get a picture since she gathers them up so quickly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The older and larger chicks that were given us. I call them Tic and Toc. Very flighty and hard to get them to cooperate with the camera

Last batch of babies. Big Red is in the foreground.

Our Duck. She started out on a farm with this chicken so I think he gets annoyed with her banter, but he endures. His name is Chocolate Her name Sack.

 

 

Huckleberry would come into the porch laundry room and eat vegetables out of utensils.

2 Mama hens flashing me. I could not get them to stand still and face me long enough to snap the shot.

Cluck -More like Attila the Hun.

 

Mama hen with a couple of her ten peeping from underneath. It Very hard to get close to them and get a picture since she gathers them up so quickly.

 

 

Now this is our little red hen who left us an egg. lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Huckleberry Rooster Drawing I did after he was gone.

 

The last 2 pictures are little attachments I love having to do with chickens.

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AT Easter time I mentioned in a post that my kids and I did eggshell geodes. I posted a picture from Martha Stewart with how they are supposed to turn out.

-I now know I am not Martha. Have you ever seen the blog called something like that? I may have seen more than 1 of them. It is too bad such names are already taken. Anyway, they still are pretty, but not at all like the picture from her site. The colors are cheery and my mind is spinning with upcycle ideas to use them for, but on this depressive Monday here are the results prior to doing something else with them.

 

 

 

They are pretty shells as you can see. This is all of them as a collection.

 

 

 

The orange one has the most crystals , but not at all like the photo from Martha’s blog.

 

 

 

This is how Martha does it. she never has a failure. lol

I think there is a link on my former post in April on this under Holidays, if you want to see what we tried. Maybe you would have better luck

Mother's Day theme – Focus on DIY cards.

If you read my post from yesterday; I had yet to get my Mother’s day stuff ready.  Well, am rejoicing because what I finally decided to go with is in the mailbox as we speak.

I love cards since they are less expensive to mail then larger packages. And it is easy to add a gift card to the inside for the price you could have spent on shipping.

I have been doing home done cards for many holidays and occasions for quite some time.  And this is a quick tutorial of the ones I did today:

 

 

Supplies plus toothpick.

 

 

card stock light green cut after folding in 1/2 lengthwise into 2 sections then folded into a card. (makes an odd size kind of, but is also stand out from norm. done this way. Plus save on paper which some may not need, but I am frugal that way!

 

 

white paint with tooth pick dipped in it and pressed`on diagonal at top of green stems

 

 

 

Using other end of the q tip, add blowing dandelion seeds as dots.

I wrote happy mother’s day on the inside and signed.

 

 

For the envelope I am using beautiful art work my sign did in art last year. ( I take pictures so that a digital record is kept. This is a great way to use up art that is hard to store and keep.

 

 

Cut and wrap like flat presents. Add gift cards to cards first. lol. Address labels and postage. Takes 2 stamps to be safe. Weight is about 2 oz. MAIL……Fun and satisfaction….

I mail cards with envelopes like this a lot and it is no problem as long as you have the correct or above postage. Wait for smiles…..

 

Found this idea here and yes I like to do art projects geared towards kids that is simple and not to involved and time consuming; I am always running late. Thanks for viewing and let me know what you think or if this inspires you.  More ideas here:

 

http://www.sassydealz.com/2014/04/q-tip-dandelion-mothers-day-card-kids-make.html

Friday Fun and Photos 4 Easter

Fun Food

Fancy for Me

Not to fail with fun 4 the teen-link for games

Fun Finds-Put the eggs decorated in a cute basket.

Fun Flair vintage egg creativity

Fun 4 first day of the week

Family Fun Fancy Egg decorating

Quick Tutorial on Tuesday-Vitamin C – Face Cream

Finished cream mixed in small mason jar

2 vitamin c tablets to dissolve in about half tablespoon of water with 1/2 bottle goats milk -all natural lotion

See how this was done easily on my blog. After doing the first steps, this is the end result,: a fluffy creamy product. Stir well and use. I have found it really made my skin glow and look younger. Enjoy!! Let me know if you do this and how it worked for you.

DIY Candy Jar

DIY Candy Jar. From another blog. Very pretty and well done.

Just my own side note: I do not want to deviate from any beauty of another person’s posting and I take no credit for what is repressed here. I actually tried to do my own blog today, but I have moved and it may be a month until I get my own computer back. The library just would not post for some reason. So have some patience; I will do what I am able in the hour alloted for now. Just the thorns of life hindering until I overcome the trials of life once again. Thanks so much. I appreciate all my followers.