taking a break

I'm going to be stepping away from this blog for a while. I haven't been very regular with it lately anyway and things have become ... well ... a little more complicated. I'll still be posting to my pic o' the day blog. It's by invitation only so if I know you and you're interested, let me know. I've made some good blogging friends and I do plan to come back (and likely will keep up on my blog reading too). Love to all. ~Marcia

egg planters

I saw this idea in my current issue of Better Homes and Gardens and fell in love:

Easter hasn't typically been a gift-giving holiday for me but I just couldn't resist these.

we had some chickens...

Ok so does anyone else know that silly little song? We used to sing it in the car when I was a child. It goes something like this:

We had some chickens in our backyard

We had some chickens, no eggs would they lay

Until a rooster got into our yard 

And caught them chickens right off their guard

They're layin' eggs now!

Just like they used-ter

Ever since that rooster

Got into our yard...

On Monday I was putting out my mom's Easter decorations and came across these little birds. My paternal grandma made them a long time ago. I fondly remembered playing with them as a child. I loved the chickens! I took pictures thinking I could maybe recreate them at home, but to my delight my mom let me take this little reddish-pink thing with me. I've made 6 so far, but might not get a chance to photograph them. Tomorrow morning they will go to school (filled with tootsie rolls because I have a zillion of those left over from Birdie's birthday) for the girls' teachers and classroom helpers. After school they will be out on spring break for the next week.

(even if I don't manage to get pictures of the 6 I have right now, I will be making more for other little gifts and can snap a pic of some at some point.)

a little edit for Kim... I guess I forgot to mention that the chicken fits over a plastic Easter egg. I put the tootsie rolls in the eggs. Apparently Grandma (or Maim) also made hens that pooped jelly beans. I'm not sure how that worked, and frankly I'm a little afraid, but my cousin said she's mailing me one.

praying for baby Stellan

a very sick little boy.

(the picture is a link to his mama's blog, click on it if you'd like to read about him. He has a very serious heart condition.)