First Egg

Yep, another layout about my chickens. :) We've got ten and I just adore them! This layout was one of those layouts where I took what was on my desk and scrapped with it. 

I spread the journaling out over a few pink rimmed labels. 

I added heart stickers and enamel dots among the journaling to create a flow of embellishment along the right side of the layout.

I also added a few stickers along the right side of the photo to continue that line.

I loved how quickly this layout came about. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Chicken Coop

This layout honestly came together because I wanted to use that feather background paper. I just loved it and wanted to be sure that it didn't become one of those papers I hoarded and never used. Because, we all have those papers and then they become papers we don't love instead of layouts.

Since we acquired ten chickens this spring, the logical topic for my layout with a feather background was them. More specifically their coop. 

There were a few different aspects of the coop and it's building that I wanted to cover but they really didn't flow well together so I broke up my journaling into three different areas. 

I really liked this technique and will be using it again. It would have required a lot more space for me to segue into each different topic of the coop and it's building if I'd tried to keep all the journaling together. I tend to get wordy when I'm covering all the bases of a topic. I want it to flow naturally and make sense and all it does is turn into a lot of rambling and the main points get a bit lost and overwhelmed. (Like I'm doing now.)

Most of the products on this page were fairly new, or at least new to me. Except for the chicken that I used for the first word of the title, that's an oldie from Cosmo Cricket. I love that it's a hen, or looks like a hen. Most chicken stuff is roosters and I only have hens! It's another reason why I like feathers so much right now and wanted to use this paper. :)

Meet my chicks!

Lately, one of the "something elses" in my life has been getting chickens! I've wanted them for years and finally got them! It only took Audrey winning two at the school carnival to make that happen. Andrew couldn't say no to her! ;)

This is Alexis, one of our Barred Rocks.

The fluffy butt belongs to Al Bundy who was originally Aleia until a couple family members said they thought he was a boy. Turns out Al is our first hen! She's been laying quite regularly the last week and no one else has. LOL!!!  The Barred Rock in the back is Midnight. Al is our other Cuckoo Maran.

Princess Marshmallow, aka Marsha, our alpha chicken is our lone Light Brahma. The other three are our other Easter Eggers. Dida, the one is front just started squatting for me today so I'm hoping she'll start laying soon. Wilma and Biddie are hiding in the back.

The three "babies". Two Easter Eggers, Pearl and Twinkles, and a Cuckoo Maran, Sweetie. Audrey and I went into the farm store just to "look" and we saw Pearl, a white Easter Egger. I was over the moon! Aud said that I should get her and I said that dad wouldn't like that. Her response? "I'll call Daddy and tell him it was my idea." 

He wound up saying yes and suggested we get two! So, we got three. I mean, Mickey needed one, too right? Poor Andrew.

And, Lilly. She's half Great Dane and half Standard Poodle and only interested in the chickens for their poop! 

So, that's our flock! Pearl, Dida, Biddie and Wilma are mine. Midnight and Sweetie belong to my son. Twinkles and Al Bundy are my daughters. She also had a Rhode Island Red named Vidia but she died after eating weeds sprayed by Round Up. Marsha belongs to my neighbor and Alexis belongs to her daughter. They live across the street backing up to an air strip and can't have livestock so they live with us.

I'm still scrapping but just haven't been posting. I want to but just haven't made photographing layouts a priority. I mean, when I have such cute chickens to photograph, who can blame me?