Making another pair of pants my own:)

These pants👖 were given to me by my mother. I did like the way they fit but felt like they were a bit boring. So it took me a little while but I found a bleach pen and drew designs on both the front and back. After that dried I cut some slits in the front and patched it with yellow bee material. ( purchased at Walmart LOL) --( after all bees are all the rage now, right...... hehe) I had purchased some scrap material at a local quilt shop and I used the light weight corduroy to make a flair. I was going to use blue corduroy and blue bee material but my husband said the yellow will stand out more. He was absolutely right the yellow was perfect. I machine embroidered a flower🌻 on each flair and boxed in the patches with a decorative stich available on the machine. The slits will open up after a few washes these are one of my favorites. I love how they look so bright. Great call on the yellow. ❤❤😍😍😍😍

Forgive the awkwardness of the photos.... Its not that easy to take pictures looking down. HAHA

Garden is in full swing!

It's time to pick vegetables till we just can't go any longer.😄 I still have 1/3 of a row to go on green beans. Love the Country life!!!🌽🥕

Life with a Cream Seperator

This is my life with a cream separator. I am milking four goats with just two adults in the house. So I have way to much milk. I am going to let the pictures do the talking.:) I have had some messes but I feel like I am getting the hang of this.  So what do I do with the cream? I use it to cook with, make butter (lots and lots of butter), in my morning coffee. The whole process takes me around 45 minutes.

cream separated ready to go

milk about to be separated

this is after clean up

Chicken had chick

One of our chickens had a chick the old fashion way, she sat on the eggs. LOL It is so cute how protective they are.

ENJOY --

Pants I embroidery on last year. Went with a ALL American Theme

Oh yea another pair of pants I purchased from a thrift store. LOL Now these are just for fun I went with a patriotic theme. I had them finished in time for Memorial day, Flag day and of course Fourth of July. It took eight hours to embroider all these designs on this pants. ( I figure its worth it, really using my embroidery machine.) I wear them everywhere and I do not worry about wearing them here on the farm.

Pant revamp This is another pair I made longer

I found these pants at a thrift store for only ten cents. ( you can not beat that!) So here is what I did with the pants. ( which by the way I love) I originally purchased corduroy to insert to make longer but I really did not like how they looked. I tore through my stash of old clothes I had disassembled to see if anything worked. The big trick here is to find something that is the same weight ( or close to) and the colors match. ( match enough). What I used is light weight light colored denim ( I had disassembled a pair of pants from the eighties- oh yea I know they were I was an adult then) Here came the tricky part. I ripped the seam on the side to insert material. These pants fit great in the waist and thigh but were short, too short. I inserted a band in the pants and on the bottom to give length. I did have one problem ( some me and some with how much fabric I had to work with) on one side when I sewed the seam back together it did not match perfect. ( or even close) I was given some denim material and I appliqued a heart on to mask it - liked the way it looked so I did several more. I also embroidered a few flowers and one lone strawberry to give it a little feel - originally I purchased these birds to applique on and I truthfully felt it did not need them. However I also did not want them lost in a pile in my sewing room. HAHA if they hold up I am going to use some more on my next pair of pants.

FYI: Husband took picture and he was reluctant to do so. Had things to do he said. LOL - not the greatest photo but you get the idea

Memorial Day 2017

Today is Memorial Day. We would like to take this moment to thank everyone who has aided in helping us live Free. We do not take you for granted and know with out you we would not have the life we do. From all our Heart, THANK YOU

You gave so we could do this.

Its Spring and spring means HAY