Halloween Door Decor

I spent a good part of this past

weekend making some holiday decorations.

There's a great youtube video I watched

about making tissue paper flowers.

They were so much fun to make!

I would've made more had I not

run short on tissue paper. 

I asked my husband to cut out

a skull shape that I'd drawn

onto a piece of plywood. 

He kindly base coated it white

for me and then I took it from there

with a simple folk art design. 

Years ago, my daughter made the circle

felt garland, so I grabbed that from the picture

it'd been hanging over. 

I cut out patterned felt half circles with pinking shears and sewed

them to some colorful ric rac for a cute little bunting. 

Adding the string of holiday beads seemed

to finish it off. 

Hoping the little trick or treaters

will enjoy it tonight. 

Happy Halloween!

Painted Chicken Coop 3

 First of all, I need to give

credit to Aimee from the Farm

Animal Sanctuary for these pictures. 

I forgot to bring my camera and 

she was kind enough to take these. 

My husband put in the hinged door 

within the front door. 

This way the chickens

can get in and out without having to open

the larger door. There's a little carabiner at the 

bottom that can secure the door shut, or hold it open. 

The back wall has 3 panels with decorative

wood strips in between. 

For the benches, I decided to paint a 

rug design in predominantly gray to

hopefully camouflage the inevitable mess. 

Here's Bob attaching the carabiner

to the chicken wire to hold the door open. 

That's Zobe the beautiful little zebu cow

in the background. 

I just love her!!

We've had so much fun

helping to beautify the farm.

It's been an honor and a privilege.