Crafts of love

I so enjoy making these... Here are a few new rugs I made last night and today!

Loving life

Rose on one of the bushes

Our new kitten

I love making whole wheat bread and putting words into my bread 

Wild strawberry picking today! More on Thursday and Saturday 

Tomatoes drying to make tomato powder

Blessings

Here is some pictures of the little farm 

And some wonderful Mother's Day gifts! 

The last pictures so far today is a few rugs I have made

Times on the farm

This past week has a been a blessed week. New chicks born craft projects worked on. Garden planted! Yes it is a great life!

Bread machine that a dear friend gave to me

Shorts I made for my daughter

12 new baby chicks

Homemade whole wheat bread! 

I so love my life!!

New rug

Well finished a new rug. It is 39/28 and will soon go to its new home! 

Storms on Tuesday

Storms

Tuesday

Well Monday started out with storms and ended with more nasty storms. But by the grace of god no damage here. Many dear families are not so lucky. My heart goes out to each family! 

As the storms were whipping around I started a new rug. Will finish it up today.

Here on the farm we are working on tending to the animals. Baking, cooking, and planning the weeks work. 

More storms heading our way this afternoon! I pray that each that will be in the path of storms today will be protected! 

The new rug made out of sheets 

Cup cakes we made yesterday. 

thursday night thoughts

As this day comes to a end i have been thinking over the last few days. 

Yesterday i was blessed by a wonderful visit from a dear friend and a co worker of his. Mark is the husband of my dearest sister in Christ and he has become a very important part of my life. I have never had brothers and if i did i can honestly say i would hope they would be like this wonderful person. The girls and i sat and listened and chatted with mark and the co worker for a few hours. My oldest daughter offered them apple pie cobbler and coffee as we sat there. We laughed and picked about family and the things we have all done as parents to the children.. We laughed at the little things each of our children have done to make us think hummm maybe i should try to redue this whole thing.... It honestly felt good to just sit and laugh... 

Today was back to normal day for us here on the farm. There was dogs to bath, house to clean, laundry to wash and hang on the line, and food to cook. 

Tomorrow will be bill day and the day to pick up extra items that the farm needs. We are working on getting things to where we only have to leave the farm once a month.. I honestly cant wait for that. While  i am out tomorrow i would like to hit the thrift stores and look for sheets to make rugs out of.  Then back home as we have someone coming to look at our mini sheltland pony we have for sale .. 

It is funny i blogged for years and had it down pat then stopped and now i am having to relearn how to do so much.. My goals for this blog is to have a place for recipes, craft ideas, money saving area.... you name it... but for now i will just have to do all those things in this format until i get it all figured out. please be patiet with me.. I will get it all figured out..

On the home front as far as crafts go this week we have made more dish cloths, worked on rugs, made a simple pillow case dress... not as much as i would like to get done but every item on the list is another one done...

Well all i pray that each of you have a blessed night.. I am going to get ready and go on to rest.. The boys are out at their fire meeting tonight and will be home late..i normally wait up for my boys but tonight my body is just worn out... have a wonderful restful night.. love to all

Mondays blessings

Today has been a busy day here on the little farm! 

We started the day out with laundry on the line and making grits with cheese sausage and whole wheat toast! Lunch was a wonderful grilles cheese on whole wheat bread! And dinner was stew beef with potatoes and cornbread! Simple food but filling! 

We also was blessed to get the whole house swept and mopped. The porch was cleaned along with the rabbit hutch, Guinne pig hutch and our bird cage. The trash was gathered, the door steps swept, ground a half bucket of wheat so we have flour for the week. The girls helped get the pig pins all cleaned out a s Steven built a  new door for the second pig pin. The praise god the yard has been mowed.... Yep it has been such.a busy but blessed day!  

Finished my night off by going on a walk with the girls.. 

On the blessed note we need up build a new barn for the goats and horses but money is so tight. Without even knowing it our neighbor asked us about it and have us all the metal roofing we will need up put on the roof!! Praise god free!!! So as it is right now we have the metal fence, the wood for the sides of the barn, now the roof metal. Still need the post for the pole barn but that's all!!  So far this will cost us only the price of the nails and screws!! Praise god for your blessings!! 

So what has been going on in your side of the world? How has god blessed your life? What have you done to bless someone's life? 

Rose from my yard beautiful yellow bloom

And here is a beautiful red bloom!!

Easter Day

Today at our little farm we have laundry on the line whipping in air. 

The girls and I went for a walk and it felt amazing! 

Breakfast this morning was homemade whole wheat waffles!!

Then a dear neighbor brought this to me!! I feel so blessed! 

HAPPY EASTER ALL!!

Good thursday all

I pray this has been a blessed day for each of you! 

Around the little farm today we have laundry whipping in the wind. BBQ turkey cooking on the stove to make sandwiches out of for dinner. We will serve it with homemade whole wheat buns I made this morning. Along with some whole wheat bread. There will also be apple pie cobbler. 

Strawberry plants are growing beautiful! We will by the grace of god have strawberries soon! The pear tree, plum tree, fig bush, blue berries and grapes are growing and looks like they will also be a good crop! 

Thinking about the coming weekend and the work that needs to be done. I want to get the garden area worked up. I so want to get it all planted! 

We have been using more and more of the food in the pantry!! From the looks of things we will need to can at least 3500 to 4000 jars of food to last a year! 

By the end of the month I am going to post the whole menu for the month and how much our grocery dollars were spent. Along with recipes to go along side. My goal is to cut my grocery budget down to 100 a month for a family of five. 

Well all have a blessed day time to get busy again! 

Dinner at our home

Whole wheat hamburger buns with meat loaf burgers, garlic butter noodles, cranberry sauce, and whole wheat brownies!!!  Oh yeah good eating! 

Baking for the day

Well two loaves of fresh baked whole wheat bread done and cooling!

Whole wheat hamburger buns cooling

Breakfast was buttermilk biscuits

And worked on my rug today now it is up to 47/36 so far. 

The last thing we got done was whole wheat brownies... Picture will be posted once they get cut!!

I pray each of you are having a blessed day!! 

Dinner will be meat loaf burgers, garlic and buttered noodles, with whole wheat buns!! Finish off with brownies!' 

New rug

Here is a picture of the new rug I'm working on it is so far 40/29. I love the colors of the rug! 

Pictures of the yard

Here are some pictures of the front of the little farm!