Baby Announcements

I realize I have not been posting as often but I am getting down to the end of my pregnancy and projects are moving a lot slower. I have a list of stuff to be cleaned and finished before baby, so I work a little bit on each one everyday. I have two quilts that I can't wait to display and I've been nagging my husband to finish the kitchen and the swing set for the kids.

Yesterday I started on my baby announcements. I used Baby Steps cartridge and inspiration from My Critter Creations. I just loved her card and it looked easy enough to make in large quantities. I made 20 yesterday and will make another 20 today. After she's born I will print off her stats and insert a picture.

The buggy was cut at 3" and I used pop dots to make it stick out a little. Unless you were doing a large cut the nose is nearly impossible to cut so I used a pen to draw it on and chalk for the cheeks. I am also unsure why they combined some of the layers. For instance the purple hood, wheels and the dark pink are all one layer but are meant to be different colors. So I had to waste paper and time cutting out all three shapes in purple and dark pink. I attempted to use the CCR to delete the shapes but it was not acting right yesterday.

Chicken Butchering

Wow, we have been so busy, but yesterday we finally got a whole day at home to catch up. So what did we do? Butchered chickens! Wahoo, not... We were not excited to do this but it had to be done. So we got set up and in the end it took about 3 hours to butcher 13 chickens. They were so big I had to run to the store and buy 2 gallon ziploc bags instead of the 1 gallon.

From this experience I have learned 1) my husband is Rambo, 2) my kids are pretty tough and 3) I'm not.

I didn't get a lot of pictures because I was busy plucking feathers but here is one of them headless and hanging before they are sent into the boiling water.

And one of my 2 youngest watching from their vantage point.

We may think we're tough after butchering 13 chickens but we were quick to run to town to get a pizza for dinner with NO chicken on it!