Our whole weekend was spent building the chicken coop. OOoooooh man. We are 90% done. Sooooo close. Just the siding and the mesh for the run. The hubs and I are EXhausted and wondering why we ever thought building a coop on our own was a good idea. Ha! I can’t wait for this to be done. Our chicken girls are getting so big and are ready to get out into the “wild”.  I’m guessing ONE more week. Just one. HOPEfully. I’m tired of our backyard construction zone.

In celebration of HOPEfully one more week of coop building… I’m sharing this “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner” print. I hope you enjoy! Right click + save to your computer for the large size!

Happy Monday!

- Chelsey

Our girls are growing and we have been attempting to get our chicken home built before they outgrow their little box in the house. It’s quite the project building a coop without much building knowledge, but I think we’ve got it. OR, I should say my husband has it down. Hopefully we can get this built within a couple of weeks. I can just tell the chicks are ready to get outside.

Speaking of…

Since the weather was absolutely BEAUTIFUL the past few days, we let the young chickens outside for the FIRST time this weekend. They pretty much LOVED it. They wandered around the yard, but mostly stayed near us. It was so fun having our little chicks wandering around. I ALSO loved that they ate a ton of bugs. Yay! It was pretty adorable watching them chase flies.

Happy Tuesday!

- Chelsey

Wow. I realized it’s been a while since I shared my girls. My urban chickens. They are around 5 or 6 weeks old and have officially hit the awkward years (or days). I took these photos a few days ago. They’re all pretty gangly and clumsy. Trying out their wings and pooping in their water NON STOP. OMG. so many poops. in the water. why in the water?

anywho.

They have been a great addition to our family. The kiddo loves them, but chooses to not hold them. I like to get in their box and the two friendly girls (Booksat and Boca) jump in my lamp to fall asleep. It’s sweet. Mrs. Pickles has decided that all people are out to kill her. I do looooove fried chicken, so I can understand her fear/concern.

I can’t get over how fast they’ve grown. In case you’ve forgotten how adorable they once were… here you go:

This weekend we are officially kicking off the chicken coop construction. Not sure how long it will take us…. since we don’t usually build large scale structures… hopefully it goes well! Lots of chicken coop googling happening over here. Ha! Wish us luck.

- Chelsey

Yesterday I shared some inspiration I found to make some unique Easter eggs, and now we have our eggs. We chose to go the letter stickers route. We wanted to make Word Easter Eggs. It did NOT go the way I had hoped. I tried to find some plastic letters for this project, but only found some paper based stickers at the store I went to. SO: it was not super successful.

I purchased 3 sets of stickers…. the most expensive stickers worked GREAT. The medium priced worked ok, and the super cheap stickers: nothing. Do not recommend. Paying just a bit more for some letter stickers will help you with the project (or if the stickers are plastic based instead of paper).

First I tried placing the stickers ON the eggs before I colored them (in a store bought egg coloring kit)… many of the cheap stickers came off, floating to the top. SOme of the other stickers held on and created eggs with words.

For the stickers that held on to the eggs… I peeled them and was happy with the result. I even added a few gold dots to some of those eggs (cause I couldn’t stop at ONLY letters).

Another option: I tried dying the egg FIRST, before putting on the stickers. Let the egg color dry, apply stickers and use and apply a light layer of acrylic paint over the word (or whole egg). My hope with this version was that I could EASILY peel back the letters and keep the paint on the egg. This did not happen. The letters were so hard to peel off that I needed to use an X-acto knife to cut the letters out. Only 2 of the eggs I did this to turned out nice (see the “Ruari” egg below).

FOR those other eggs that didn’t work…. I went ahead and peeled off the paint & stickers that I had on the egg. Something neat happened… when peeling off the paint the coloring came off WITH the paint. Creating a cool affect to the egg (see the “love” egg below). SO, I did this to most of my eggs.

The kiddo helped me out with all of this. She pretended to spell a lot of words and she’s excited to share these eggs with Miss Easter Bunny (kiddo says she’s a MISS). I can’t wait to have the Easter Bunny hide these for my kiddo. Hee.

SPEAKING of eggs… the chickens are doing pretty neat. We still have issues with one of our chicks: Boca. Boca is a trouble maker and CONStantly tries to eat the toes of her fellow chicks. SO: she’s officially separated for a week (breaks my heart). I hope this works (I also hope she’s not actually a rooster). She’s crazy aggressive with food, feet, water, and pretty much everything…. BUT: She LOVES to cuddle with me. So crazy. I stick my hand down near her and she runs to it. She falls asleep in my hand EVERYtime. She likes me to pet her chest and loves to eat out of my hand. So weird, but she’s the most friendly chick to me and the biggest bully to the other girls.

HAPPY FRIDAY to all of you! Have a wonderful weekend.

- Chelsey