Spring Project and a New Summer Look

While I had every intention of writing and creating projects all last week, I had a cold that I just could not shake. I do apologize for how long it's been since I've posted.

Spring is full blown upon us (Pollen and all) and boy has it been a busy one! The weather has finally turning nice and the sun has been out, a little too much perhaps. Thursday it was 96 degrees outside! Now that is warm. With all this warm weather and budding flowers I've been thinking a lot about the summer and this (literal) new season in our lives. This summer is going to be a really good one. I just have that feeling. 

I typically don't like the heat much at all but I've actually been really excited for the temperature to be rising because over the winter I picked up a bunch of summer dresses on sale for super cheap and I've been eager to get them out of my closet. 

To go along with this "New Summer Look" theme I have two things to share with you. The first is: I have bangs now! I haven't had bangs since I was about 6 years old and I just decided that I wanted something really different and so I am going to have bangs for the summer. I do think I'll let them grow out, but for now I'm rather enjoying them. I only just cut them Friday so I'm not quite used to feeling them sit on my forehead yet, I'll be used to them soon though. What do you think?

The second thing I want to share with you today is this dress!  This is not one of the ones I mentioned above that I got over the winter, although in a way I sort of did... 

My mother, who knows me all too well, gave me a bag of ugly clothes for Christmas. Now, you may be asking, "Why would someone want ugly clothes for Christmas?" Well, I would! And I was so excited to receive them! Although they weren't clothes I would wear, they were made of amazing material that was just begging to be cut into. I immediately paired these two dresses together to be the perfect combo of elegance and ruggedness but I didn't get around to putting the project together until just recently. And I have to tell you... This is probably my current favorite dress. It is so much fun to wear and it really could work for almost any occasion! I'm in love.

Some of my Christmas clothes!  

Although I did like this dress, it was four or five inches shorter than I want to wear.

The project was super easy. I cut the skirt off of each dress, pinned the white skirt to the brown top, sewed them together, and now I have a brand new dress! The brown top has a drawstring waist and the white material has enough give that I didn't have to worry about closures at all, which is always a relief. 

This dress was a not quiet my style and a  little fancier than something I would wear, especially not on a regular basis. 

I'm sure you won't find the exact same two dresses, but hit up your local thrift shops and find two dresses to combine. Be daring and pair materials that wouldn't typically be put together. You just might surprise yourself! 

Please share in the comments what contrasting garments, accessories, etc that you like to pair. I would love to hear your ideas! 

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2016 Kids

I had a rather disappointing and unlucky spring. Most of the does that I bred didn't end up pregnant.
Faye kidded first, on May 18th. For her 4th time kidding she had one kid. a beautiful blue eyed doeling. Lacey kidded 10 days later, on the 28th, super early in the morning. It was her first freshening, with two little girls. One with blue eyes! And that's it. Just three adorable little girls this year.

Violet 

Faye's baby, Violet, has been sold to Tiny Hill Farm. So I'll be able to see her grown up and see what kids she has when she's bred in a year or so.

Faye's kid, Violet

Lacey's kids

Tawny

I still have Lacey's kids and am bottle feeding them to make them extra friendly.

Lacey didn't want anything to do with them when they were born, so I've been mamma goat since the first day! They are the cutest little things.

Cyan

First snake

My cat's not a very good hunter. She's great at finding and hunting down the little critters but once she gets them she has no idea what to do with them.....and there's NO WAY she would ever - being a princess and all - eat any thing uncooked! 

So I went out side and saw Lila in the garden just staring at something. It was this snake. She had scared it so much that it was just curled up in a little ball not daring to move. He let me pick him up, I didn't want to scare him too much more so I only put him in the jar long enough to get the picture and I put him back in the garden.  My first snake of the year, Though I really can't take any credit for finding him!