Blogging Adventure: weight loss

Blogging Adventure: weight loss: 2 easy ways to lose weight of different types to do it with. I may try both and see how it goes- one at a time.  I just need the stuff to do...

I won the state bread award way back. One hobby  us country leaning folks like to do is bake and make yummy homey comfort food like home made breads. I posted on my main blogs a couple simple means to help in weight loss . One site has ideas to do as habits that you could even work in with regular down home and other cooking.

Exploration in the yard

Pink lilies among the trunk of a Mimosa tree.

The other night I went out into my approximately 1 acre yard and made some discoveries. The flowers above.

Been seeing several blue buntings eating top tufts of grasses most people would call weedshttp://www.greglasley.net/bluebunting.html

The bird photo came from the link I added. My camera is cheap. The flower and the next photo is my own.

The prettiest toadstools I have ever laid eyes on: Red and yellow cluster..

Light purple Phlox growing in concrete slab behind and in our house corner. Amazing.

I keep hoping as far as the phlox goes that I would see one of these:

http://www.swagbuhumming bird mothscks.com/?t=i&p=3&b=0&f=0&q=humming+bird+moths

The link goes to a page of moth of this type images and you can find it and goes to the site since I could not get a link actually to the site for some odd reason.

In the desert area I lived in- in WA state, we saw these every summer evening in my big patch of pale pink phlox. I need to study and find if there are actually any here. Wonderful happy pretty little creatures like a humming bird crossed with a moth.About this Moth Wikipedia.

Always new things in the yard to see. Now go explore you yard , trail or park.

Blogging Adventure: Letterboxing -Frugla Hobbies #? Plus Geocaching.

Blogging Adventure: Letterboxing -Frugla Hobbies #? Plus Geocaching.: Do not mind the distracted mindset I daily live with. I remembered this morning, I may have committed to another post on letter boxing in my...

A link via my main blog about a great frugal hobby : letter boxing. Also included for those that have the gas and a GPS:  a lot like letter boxing, Geo caching- a twist on letterboxing. We have done the letter boxing. A lot of fun depending on where you live. Links to sites and descriptions.

For the Nursery- Frame and Crayons, With a Splash of Paint

A great gift for a new baby that is thrifty. Needed : 8x10 photo frames or any size you like. Glue gun and sticks. Crayons. Craft paint.

I wish I had taken pictures of the process for this. I am sorry I neglected that. It is pretty easy to follow though.  

1. Paint the frame edge in any acrylic paint you choose . I did pink spectrum for a girl and blue and green for a boy. I also painted the glass as a background, but it could be left plain. Let dry.
2. Now I use a glue gin and glue sticks which stick promptly ( I am impatient.) but any glue that will hold the crayons to the glass and or frame will work. I do also like the glues gun since I can hold the picture upright to see how it looks while making.
3. If paint is dry, glue crayons on to make a pattern of your choosing. I have done 3 with the first letter of the babies name, but any design you imagine could be done. I am thinking a sunburst would be lovely or scattered design of crayons.
4. Depending on what you choose, you may need to break crayons in pieces. To make the letters fit right,  I did this. I also scattered crayons around one of the frames. The other I did kind of  shabby chic.
5. Let dry (if needed) If using glue sticks in a gun ,you may have to pull off strings. I had to.
6. Now go make one.

Completed!

Home Made Bath Salts

I will be mailing a package soon to my Mom. I got her several books and made her quite a number of  DIY crafts. One was lemon Bath salt.

Supplies used to do bath salts

To make these you need:

1. lemon juice
2. olive oil
3. sea salt                                                                                                                                                                                
4. Container                                                 

 For giving as a gift I used : 

1.  round metal altoid container, 
2. cellophane bag
3. Glue gun -glue
4. Card, I am recycling for this                                                                                                                                                                 

   Mix 1/4 cup sea salt with enough olive oil to coat the grains. This will keep the salt from dissolving when lemon is added. Add enough lemon to make the quality and consistency you like. Put in a container . I put mine in cellophane and inside tin. I wondered if the lemon would react to metal so I did it this way. I made a tag cut from the card and wrote lemon Bath salt on it. I glued this cutely to the tin. 

The end product:

Lemon bath salt in tin for gift.

                                                                          

Chickens-hoping the picture loader will cooperate today.

 Egg -the rooster I am having trouble with all of a sudden after taking these pictures. Fancy the pretty and sweet hen

Our guinea fowl

Sack the quack.

A few days past I tried to post my chicken pictures, but the loader would not cooperate on here so  deviated. I am hoping you get to see my chickens this post. It worked here are most of them  plus the duck for good measure with the guinea thrown in the mixture.

last batch of babies 5of 7. could not get therm all together to take a picture

Pepper top dog.

Huckleberry in back- my scissor beak chicken I do special treatment with and clip beak. And Frisky young hen his friend for now.

Father rooster

Crazy combo the duck and his companion chocolate. Crazy names I know.

My sweetie, cross beaked Huckleberry. One or 2 days after this picture- crisis- I will tell in another post.

Like to eat -Frisky.

These are all bantam weight. We have them to free range and keep bugs down, but a lot of upkeep. On another post I will have pictures of our mama hen and new babies. Last night a possum got one. Sad. Predators and chickens will be  left  for another post.

Another site with Money/ Frugal tips.

I believe it was my first post on here -on which I posted money budget tips from someone else blog. I found another great one with a lot of tips. I already do several and I noticed several that would not work for me in my situation, but any little bit helps.

50 tips to penny pinch:  http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/save-money/. I hope this is useful to someone.