What we've been up to

I hope everyone is out enjoying this lovely fall weather. At least it is around here. I love the colors, the fresh cool air and oh, just everything about it. In case I haven't mentioned it, fall is my favorite time of year! Above is a photo of  uncleaned gourds Jayme brought me from South Carolina the other day. Don't they just look like Autumn? I thought they did anyway. They also sort of look like work.....they need to be cleaned, painted on, holes drilled in them and the inside cleaned out. Turning a gourd into something usable is not so easy.

The use of gourds for bird houses and cooking utensils has been around for literally thousands of years. Here is an interesting article on the history of hard shell gourds. They are fun and interesting to work with. I'm enjoying them and learning as I go along. 

This was my fall inspired gourd. Jayme swiped it from me when she was here. I'm just kidding it was her birthday gift. 

These are the four I've made so far. I really just want to use them, but the idea was to try and sell them to supplement our income just a bit. I'm not sure if birdhouses will sell or not but, we'll see....you can only try, right?!

In case you didn't notice, we now have an Etsy Shop widget in the right sidebar. We don't have much there yet but hope to add when we can. Tim also made some wooden birdhouses that I painted on. Also a very nice Red Cedar bird feeder that I really just want to fill with bird seed and put in my yard!

Indigo Bunting on Goldenrod and Chipping Sparrow on pine branches. Did you know that bird watching is good for your health?! Yep, sure is. You can read a blog post written by Taking a Walk on the Wild Side that will tell more about that.

Isn't that a lovely bird feeder? I think I should just put that right out in my front yard....Tim won't let me.....it's for sale too.....but.... it just goes with my yard. I have the spot picked out and everything! Oh well.....maybe next time.