Easy DIY drink coasters

Happy Halloween. With the holiday comes drinks everywhere so I have a really easy DIY coaster. 

You just need twine or rope and a handy hot glue gun.

I did mine right off the coil instead of a premed sired strand. Start to coil the end on itself and hold it in place with glue.

Once you have it started its all down hill.

Keep rolling and glueing until you have the size you want. Cut it and glue down the end, coating the loose end in glue do it doesn't fray.

That's that. Keep it green,clean, and classy.

Shalimar

Our Duck Coop, plus pictures of the Boys, Bella, and our rooster Stefan.

I'm back:) well, for today anyway then I'm probably going to be m.i.a again. My schedule is pretty full with the homestead right now. Awhile back mr had built our sweet duckies a coop of their own. I'm finally sharing that. 

First things first, baby Bella. Who's really not so much of a baby anymore but she will always be my baby girl. This is her "I don't want to pack everything and move". 

When we first build this coop it was placed inside of our storage building. Since the. We have moved to the homestead and now it's under a tree for some partial shade and placed near the chicken coop so the duckies don't feel alone. 

The coop will be completed with a metal roof and some paint. We haven't dealt with much rain since the move so we just throw a trap over it when necessary. 

During the move the coop flew, haha. We use straps 99.99% of the time! this is literally the firs time we have traveled with anything in the back of the truck not tied down. So Murphy's law kicked in about the same time we hit a mammoth of a bump on the road. I saw the coop land but mr saw it titer over the tailgate before toppling down to the rough asphalt. The coop showed it's durability and held tight together, but the corner and one edge of the plywood roof got a little eaten up.

Here's the boys trying to showcase the coop with their stunning good looks:) So, the coop is really just a simple box design. The ducks are both male so we didn't need any boxes for egg laying. Ducks are also different from chickens because they don't perch, so balance bar shelves weren't necessary either. What all birds have in common is the very large amount of poop.  To help with clean up we used a small welded wire screen as the floor. The door is hinged to open down and double duty as an entrance ramp. We added a window on the backside for a view and ventilation. 

This guy here is Stefan, formerly known as Snow. 

When it's closed it's sear rude with a simple hook and latch simple, same one as a gate.

There's the duckies. Plus, one of the chicas chicken scratching in the hay.

So that's that. I will be doing another post for the coop later. Once it's painted and has it's metal roof. Plus, I was thinking about maybe doing a duck walk path. Till next time keep it green, clean, and classy.

Shalimar

Halloween cat makeup

In the spirit of October and all things Halloween. I'm bringing y'all another costume make up tutorial.....these pictures are from a few years so, no I haven't cut and colored all my hair. I am however contemplating cutting it into a "boy" style I wore way back. I literally buzzed my hair off on the sides and back, but kept a few inches of length on top with bangs. It sounds crazy but it worked. Ok ok enough about hair dilemmas and onward to the makeup.

To get my eyes to appear larger and more cat like I raised my eyebrows. To do this I started with covering my actual eyebrows. To do this, just glue them down...you can use Elmer's glue stick.. Get your eyebrows as flat as possible and set the glue with translucent setting powder. 

Then using a pencil draw on your new eyebrows. 

Shadow your eyes with your eyebrows hidden under darker shadow. 

Using eyeliner create a little triangle in the inner corner of your eye to get the "cat eye" and of course the traditional cat eye flick on the outer corner.

Using black liner draw on a cat nose. Connect the black nose to your mouth with a black line. Outline lips with black...not shown here..you could take the mouth to the next level with dark shadow around the mouth and a pale lip.

 Whiskers drawn on completes the makeup. 

Our pumpkins. My Mr and I love love love Halloween and everything related, which includes pumpkin craving. These are from a few years ago, but I will also post our jack o lanterns from this year. 

Till next time keep it green, clean, and classy.

Shalimar

Bella and the Boys

So I swear that I will get back to crafting projects and DIYs but I'm sharing my beautiful baby Bella again and f course the boys too. Soon, I will be sharing everything with the homestead but honestly there isn't much "excitement" to digging trenches and working septic tanks.