Goings on at Our Homestead This Week - Bracelets, Chickens, and Resurrections
Oh man! I've hardly been on Steemit in a few days! We've been up to quite a lot. I've been working for my mom at her upholstery shop and Sean has been working on projects here at the house. The chicken coop has four corners and floor joists. It's just been so rainy and cold, working outside is almost impossible. Not with electric tools anyway!
I put up some of my wire wrapped tumbled stone pendants for sale in my Etsy shop and sold a few! I've also learned to make bracelets and I've sold a few of those as well. So my time has been taken up by making inventory for the shop. My fingers hurt from pushing wire. Ouch!
Here are some of the bracelets I've made. There are more in the shop if you're interested. ;)
In other news homesteading news, we butchered three more roosters and an older hen which had stopped laying. @tiredmama and her man helped and got to take home two of the birds. So now we are down to one rooster, Cluck Norris, and 10 hens...I think. Chicken math is hard. Haha!
Also...I owe a huge thank you to @jasonrussell!!! He and his wife @melodyrussell were out at the house taking our son's Senior pictures when I had him take a look at my rock tumbler. Turns out @alaskahippie was right! It just needed lube! After a few good sprays of WD-40 and a flick of the finger and the motor took off like new! So thank you, @alaskahippie and @jasonrussell for your help in saving me $130!!!
So that's about all that's been going on. I'm hoping for nice photo-taking weather soon. I'm also hoping to get to a stopping point on making bracelets, I think I'll finish tomorrow. I have a batch of rocks that just finished their second week of grit. I will photograph the ones I've been following and then get them in for the first week of polish.
Thanks for stopping by! What have I missed?!?! It's so hard to keep up!! I seriously can't leave for more than few hours without getting lost. I hope I didn't miss anything terribly important. If I did, give me a heads up! Thanks!
What pretty dainty bracelets! Congrats on getting several Etsy sales right off the bat, too! It's such a good feeling, isn't it? :)
Thanks, @mtnmeadowmomma! It feels terrific!
I have not been on STEEMIT in 9 days I have a major assignment due!
Wow! Good luck with your assignment!
I haven’t had much time on Steemit over the last few days either. I feel like my mother used to feel when she missed a couple days of her soap operas! I’ve got one more busy day ahead of me, but Thursday is going to be spent sitting at the table with a big glass of tea, reading my way down my feed!
I was just talking to my brother yesterday about your jewelry and your broken spinny thing, hoping that you were going to be able to get it fixed and not have to invest in another. What do you use to drill the tiny holes in the rocks?
I’ve got to practice more wire wrapping. I don’t think I’ll ever be great at it, but I’d like to at least be good at it! Your links are so even and consistent! Great looking work! Congrats on your etsy sales. :)
Thanks so much! I'm so glad my tumbler is back to work. I was panicking.
I didn't drill the holes myself, they came with the holes. These little chip beads I'm using I just ordered from Amazon. I have lofty ideas of getting my own drill press though and making my own beads. I think it would be really cool!
Thanks a bunch for stopping by, @powellx5!
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Sah-weet!!!! Thank you, @kiaraantonoviche!
I love your bracelets! It looks like you had a big week. Be well!
Thanks, @freedompoint! There's barely been time to sit and breathe!
nice! it's good to have good friends who can help ya fix stuff! nice bracelets! and it's been some good weather to butcher chickens. it's harder to do when your hands are cold <3
Thanks so much, @mountainjewel!
It took us about ohhh....I'd say an hour and a half to do four chickens. That's pretty slow but we're still new to it. I don't want to do it with cold fingers! My shoulders hurt from reaching up and plucking them. We made hangers for them out of coat hangers so they were about face high. Yuck.
The bracelets are beautiful! Are they also made of rocks that you tumbled?
Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't have a drill press to put holes in my little stones so I bought these. My next "rock" purchase will be a drill press though. I think I can get one for less than $100. Then I can make my own stone beads! :)
That is a great idea!
Productivity is great. Glad to hear the tumbler is living.
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