Finished "Peace" Fabric Junk Journal

In the Crafting Department {basically the whole house}:

I have sure been having fun with my fabric junk journal project! I themed it after my word for the year - Peace. 

Having been blessed with a fairly decent collection of tea towels, placemats {particularly beautiful ones embroidered in the Philippines where I grew up}, laces, lovely silk scarves dyed by my daughters, and some linocut projects, I hand-sewed them together to make my book.

This placemat had a silverware pocket so I made use of that...

...by backing a cross-stitch made years ago by my kind sister-in-law...

...and rolling it to insert into the pocket.

To make some of the quote pieces, I embroidered the words and on others I wrote them with permanent pen and ironed them.

This "Mine" embroidery was the edging of a beautiful pillowcase that was wearing thin.

It will become my regular coffee table book as soon as I clear the freshly laundered and folded clothes off the table. 😁 I am just so tickled with this creation and want to do more. So I shall!

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On the Homestead

I'm finishing up hatching out a bunch of quail eggs and they're happily peeping in the brooder for three weeks till they get moved to grow-out cages. Some will become new layer clutches and some will go in the freezer. I've got two regular egg customers that are pretty much paying for my feed costs, so that's a nice thing and I hope to grow that base.

The red lighting in the brooder is the heat lamp and the pen is there for a size comparison.

We have a young buck rabbit who was traded back to us because I mis-gendered him 😕 and he is quite the acrobatic escape artist! His first morning back I found him running around the rabbit room having escaped from his five-foot-high cage. I put him back in after a merry chase. Then in the evening, here's where I found him...twice.

With Lovey's help, we moved him to a more secure cage. Not sure if he should end up in the freezer, or sold to pass along his strong acrobatic genes.

The snow is melted!!! So, of course I want to get out gardening, but in reality it's not smart to do so till Memorial Day weekend or so because of the danger of frosts and even freezes. So I'll do other outside chores as able.

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This week's goals:

In the Craft Department:

* Finish April's Elefantz BOM

* Solidify a plan for making another fabric book using my Elefantz BOM {again} blocks from a few years ago - the monthly garden series. Since I'll have Mom here again for a week, I'm not sure how far I'll get on this project, but if I do most of it by hand rather than machine, we could "keep company" watching TV together.

* I'd also like to catch up on A Quilting Life's BOM, but I'll have to play that one by ear.

On the Homestead:

* Buy more materials for building more quail cages

* Build two more quail layer cages which can also serve as grow-out cages as needed

* Spread manure/compost {"Money is like manure. No good unless it's spread around, making young things grow." or something like that}

In the Home:

* Make more pickled quail eggs - Lovey's favorite

* Wash insides of windows and install screens

* Organize neglected papers/paid bills from desk

May the coming of spring {or autumn as the case may be} bring many more ways to see the glory of God in everything.