Michelle Legler

Christmas was Grand!

I hope you all had a Fabulous Christmas/Holiday! I sure did! I was blessed to have most of my family here. Missed having daughter #1 and her main man here, but we Skyped with them which was almost as good. I must say, having my little grand baby here made the holiday a bit more magical. Even though she's not quite 2, she sure was excited and we all relished in her excitement! :-)

She loves her babies and was happy to receive this large collection of baby doll necessities from one of her aunties.

She wasted no time in putting them to use

This expression is priceless. What is Grandpa bringing down the stairs for me?????

An artist Easel! Grandma thinks she needs to express her creative side :-)

Some Love for Grandpa after the excitement

The oh~so popular Snuggies were an item requested by daughters 3 & 4

What did I receive for Christmas??????

A chicken coop!

I went on an urban chicken coop tour in the beginning of December and the hubby went with me. I was so impressed with the raising of chickens for eggs that I told the hubby that I wanted a coop and chickens for Christmas.

Since the beginning of November, the hubby had been asking me almost daily what I wanted for Christmas and I really did not want or really need anything. Then the tour. After the tour, he jokingly said I suppose you want a coop and chickens for Christmas. You should have seen the look of horror on his face when I said YES!

Because, of course, this means labor for him and I LOVE this!!! For any of you who know me or follow this blog, you know that I do the majority of labor intensive jobs in our yard and house. I can only (and only sometimes) get labor out of him (except for mowing the grass and maintaining the pool) on my birthday or Christmas and believe me I take advantage of it! LOL!!!

One of my friends even mentioned that her husband would build the coop if we supplied the materials and I said NO! The labor is part of the gift.

I must say, he did a fabulous job!! He really is very talented but he tires of my endless projects. LOL! Once he finished the coop, he really was quite proud of his work and I chimed in with see what how good this accomplishment makes you feel and just think of the exercise you got out of it! :-) I'm trying to be tricky with whole reverse psychology thing. ;-) Not sure if it worked.

Now for the best part. Drum-roll please..............

Aren't they so DANG CUTE!!!!! They won't move into their coop for a few weeks. For now, they're living in a box on my loft.

For those of you living in very winter weather, I thought I'd share a little bit of green with you going on in my yard right now. I hope you enjoy!!!

Here's wishing you a very, very Happy New Year!!!!!!!

xoxoxoxoxoxo!!!!

Michelle

p.s. I recently joined the group Permaculture which is a group based on more sustainable living. This group hosted the chicken coop tour. If you'd like to check them out, go here www.phoenixpermaculture.org/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas

Happy~Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Still busy filling holiday orders and must make a trip real SOON to Bohemia in Tucson to bring Miss Tana new stuff. See Tana, I'm listening :-) (xoxo!)

I did take a day to put up some holiday decorations and WOW! I decided that I had WAY TOO MANY! So, daughters 2 & 3 received some hand-me-downs. Yay! Less to put away. :-) (and they went to good homes) and I STILL have alot!

Here's my holiday decorating...

See ya soon!

xoxoxoxo!!!!!!!!!

Michelle
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
   

Me and My Girls

Thanksgiving was wonderful!!

Here's a pic of me and my girls :-) .........gotta find the pic of the boys now.

Hope your holiday was wonderful as well!!!!!!!!!!

xoxo!!!!!!!!!

Michelle

Always in our Hearts

Our pets are a very important part of our family. Matter of fact, I'd really like to live on a farm so that I could have lots more!

Every morning when I wake, the first thing I do is go downstairs and awake my pugs for their morning meal. I then start the coffee (so youngest daughter will have her go~go juice before heading out to school), next I head outdoors to the front yard to feed and water the "stray" cat that I've been taking of for about a year and a half now (I'm pretty sure she sleeps in my studio at night...comes through the doggy door). I then head out the back door to fill up all of the bird feeders for the many birds sitting on my neighbors roof just waiting and staring at me (remember the scary movie the birds?? yeah, I make sure I never run out of food!) Then I grab the fish food and head over to the pond to feed my very large Koi and many goldfish. Yep,I'm affectionately referred to as the "feedbag". LOL!!!!

Anyway........I wouldn't spend so much time taking care of all of them if they all weren't so important to me.They bring alot of Joy to my life and I really LOVE them all so much!!!!!!!!! So much so, that when one of them passes away, I turn into one inconsolable basket case. Not kidding. I don't only cry for days, I cry for months. It's been 4 years since my little Zoe (black pug) passed away and when I bring her little paw print out of the drawer, I still  get choked up.

So when a dear customer/friend contacted me about her little Joey passing away and said that she needed something special to keep his ashes and his belongings in, I completely understood. Here's the box that I made for her little precious Joey.

I'm so sorry for your loss Catherine and I really hope that this box serves your Joey's memories well.

xoxo!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle