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Gardening Book: A Blessing of Toads by Sharon Lovejoy
I read another great gardening book I had picked up at the library over the past few weeks – A Blessing of Toads by Sharon Lovejoy. Between this book and the last one I read, I am super pumped to start planning our garden for spring. One thing that really spoke to me about this group…
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Summer of Art Inspiration Part 7: Farm and Americana Art
One thing that’s pretty easy to find in Effingham county thrift stores and consignment shops is art inspiration for farm or americana type themes. Here’s a few choice tidbits from our adventures! This is the kind of thing where I really want to believe this is a vintage feed sack that someone cut and framed.…
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Cute Drawings – Farm Theme Illustrations
I’ve been burning the midnight oil working on cute drawings for Make Art that Sells over the past few weeks! Pages and pages of preliminary work happen over the span of a few days. Tons of cute drawings – I’m talking… TONS. And not all of it ends up getting used in the final work!…
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Art Inspiration – Our Chickens and Chicken Coops
I’m currently working my way through the Lilla Rogers Make Art That Sells Home Decor class. At the end of the next five weeks, I’ll have a brand new group of fun artwork to share with art directors! But first, you gotta pick a theme for the collection. You need art inspiration. We were given…
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Yee-Haw! Rodeo at Ottowa Farms
Last night, my buddy Jenn joined Phil, Joy and I for a country-fried adventure – we checked out the first ever rodeo at Ottowa Farms! Okay, it was their second ever rodeo. We didn’t make it to night one. It was awesome that an event like this was so close to home, and even better…
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Blacula the Chicken
Our small flock of chickens that we had when we were living in Long Beach, California all had names. Awesome names. Ridiculous names. Lady Cluckington. Turban. The Doublemint Twins, aka Eggatha Christie and Judy Plume. Geronimo. Old Yeller. Big Momma. You’re not supposed to name chickens that you’re in theory going to eat someday. And…
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Just a Few Chores on a Saturday
Take a break, kid, you earned it. Love this Photo? Click here to buy our image as wall art!
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What we’re growing
Farmy orchard success, clockwise from top left: lemons, orange, lime, birthday tangerine tree from my brother in law Chris and his new wife Cari! We were a little bummed that our peach trees didn’t fare better, but we’ll try again in a drier area of our land.
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Wild America in Our Own Backyard
Recently, I went out to the backyard for something and was greeted with an unexpected visitor just hanging out on our lawn. The second I came out the door he booked it, making haste for the wall. But instead of hopping it and running off, he just hung out. Watching me. But more importantly, watching…
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The Continued Adventures in Backyard Chicken Ownership…
Yesterday Josh walks into our office and says what no chicken owner wants to hear: “We’re missing a chicken.” Ummmm WHAT?!?! How are we missing a chicken?! I mean, last fall I saw a hawk hanging around our backyard cuz he was looking for a chicken dinner, but that was because our dog was in…
