Animal Crackers - Looks like I am going to be "Mom"

Ok, hope no one freaks out with that title... LOL  But this is the face of my new baby...

We are still giving meds and working with Lillie and her Mastitis. Poor thing, she sees us coming out the door every evening and she tries to run and hide from us. We have milked her a million times trying to get the bad milk out, shots, pills... pills that are larger than my thumb. She is very tired of it all. Her son Danny... he is doing great and is eating wonderfully off her good milk side. But her daughter Sandy... she won't eat from Mom at all. Nope.... she listens for my voice come out the back door with her recycled green Sprite bottle of milk... then she starts screaming and running to the gate for her meal. We have our special meal time every 2.5 - 4 hours - she is such a sweet thing. Bottle fed babies really are very social and loving.

Now just cuz I am Meal Time Mom... Lillie is still her Mommy, Lillie is wonderful and takes great care of her, cleaning her, leading her, teaching her how graze and most important protecting her. In this photo I am not sure what they were discussing....

Now do you remember my little screaming baby Olive Oyl... the video I showed a while back with that high pitch bird scream voice....

 She still has that same voice... and she uses it all day... every day. I don't know how she keeps it up. She stops long enough to eat and sleep. But then she starts up again. It is funny... but also exhausting :0) She is a sweetie though -

Now here is a beauty... This photo just makes me smile -

Late afternoon... Gracie was laying in a group of a bunch of kids waiting for dinner time and their grain. I would say that Gracie was enjoying the afternoon warmth and just life in general... LOL I swear she is smiling.


Here is a beautiful little girl too... Leticia -

 Our last baby girl. I can't believe she is just about old enough to wean! She is going to be a pretty dark brown/red color I think. After all this baby fur sheds off that is. Still cracks me us though.. spot Dad, spot Mom and dark brown/red baby.... She actually looks a lot like Raffie's Mom  - I'll have to see if I have photos of her....

Caught Diego in a great photo - he must have had an really bad itch....

He was going to town rubbing back and forth on that dead branch. He is so funny....

Now please don't scream.... I don't have a Tuco photo this week..... BUT WAIT.... we had a visitor yesterday.... Hubby's niece came by and she brought Bella to visit as well. Bella is from Libbie's litter from last summer  -

She is so adorable! AND SO TINY!!!! She is smaller than Tuco now!

Told you ... isn't she just well.... adorable!!!!  And I do believe totally spoiled :0)  She has a Sister Doggies... a enormous Black Lab. And from what they say... Bella has her Mom, Libbies,  attitude -  she is small... but still in charge.

Well... better run... Gotta give Lillie her medicine and I think if I listen closely I have a little one out there calling for her milk....

Have a great Saturday!
HUGS and

Whimsy Release Today! Join the Hop going on!

Happy Friday :0)  Just wanted to share today that there are some great new images that are being released today at Whimsy Stamps!!

After you see my card with one of the new images, make sure to pop over to the Whimsy Inspirations Blog to see more DT cards and then the link to get started on a hop!

For my card I used the new image by artist LiaStampz called "I am Blue" ... too sweet,

Such a cute little birdie isn't he? I colored with my copies, then I went through my papers and found papers from My Mind Eye I think...LOL I sewed everything together. Now I used a blanket stitch this time. I LOVE this stitch and how it looks, but darn... it takes forever to sew out and uses a ton of thread! LOL 

I added a pink satin ribbon and then added three "dots" of Viva Decor Paper Pen for three brad like buttons. My sentiment is also from Whimsy - They have THE BEST Ticket sentiment sets... loads to choose from and then there is a die to match - I used a copic to make it pop with some color. 

I used the scraps to do a simple inside. 

So make sure to HOP on over and join the HOP now ok? Great prizes :0)


See you tomorrow for Animal Crackers
HUG and

Whimsy Stamps Challenge - BINGO time!

Hello and Happy Wednesday! It is Whimsy time... and todays challenge is a game of Bingo. Love Bingo challenges as it gives you so many options! You can find the Bingo Card on the Whimsy Inspirations Challenge Blog HERE -

I chose Pearls - Image - Flowers. Sorry it was the easiest row for me, Memorial Day weekend, BBQ here with family and being the Mommy and feeding a baby goat every 3 hours it was just best...

Ok, so I used Crissy Armstongs image "Free Ride". He is just totally adorable don't you think? LOL I colored with my copies, then I cut out the balloon to the point of where my Circle Nestie was - cut out my circle. Then went to work on my card. I cannot tell you how bad I did NOT want to cut this paper... but then I saw this little mouse and decided it was worth it... LOL  - I LOVE this paper... My Minds Eye Miss Caroline Howdy Doody collection. That floral paper is just gorgeous! If I could get this paper in wall paper I would so do a room in my house!  Ok, so I cut into the paper, stacked up patterns sewed things together. Then I punched out two Whimsy Double Scallop border die - I just got it... so I HAD to use it right away :0) Do you love the weaving holes or what??? I cut strips of the matching paper and used it like ribbon, that way it would match perfectly. I sewed the borders in place and then I added Veva Decor Pearl Pen in Cream color to create lots of little "Pearls" on each border. My mouse and balloon were matted and then attached. I popped the balloon up with foam pop dots, then added two layers of dimensional glaze so my balloon would be really shiny and really pop out! Love how that came out.

Here is the cute little mouse up close -

Then I went to the inside, more of the same pattern papers, and then since I also just got the Double Scalloped Doily die... I had to use it on the inside ready for any type of sentiments - for any need. 

It sat on my desk for about an hour... before I remembered the flowers! OH MY I forgot the flowers... so I dug through my drawer of flowers and found a few that matched the pattern paper with some Martha Stewart Frond leaf punches. 

So I hope you enjoyed my "Free Ride" card - I had lots of fun with this one. Now make sure to pop over to the Whimsy Inspiration Challenge Blog and see all the other Bingo cards from the DT and then join us for a chance to win your own Whimsy Stamps... remember you don't have to use a Whimsy Stamp to join in - 

Thanks so much for visiting ;0) Hope you have a wonderful day... 

HUGS and - 

Dust it Off - Elizabeth Bell - Pen Pal

Hi - This past weekend I took time to look through all of my older stamps. I have millions of them. And I really want to use all the older stamps that I had to have cuz I fell in love with them. Poor things... I loved them so much and then they got put in a box and haven't seen light much less ink in a long long long time. So I am going to Dust off my old weekly blog post.. "Dust it Off" and start playing with more of what I have. I still will need all the new things I fall in love with :0) But I have challenged myself to use more of what I have -

Today I pulled out one of those images that I had to have  - by Elizabeth Bell. Took me a while to figure out who this actually came from. But I finally found that she is part of the SweetART Ebony collection, and her name is Pen Pal.

Isn't she pretty? I think she has a little attitude :0) I colored her with my Copics. The pattern papers are from very old stuff. I punched two EK Success Flourish border punches twice once with the green card stock and once with the cream colored. Everything is sewed down. I stamped the sentiment on a piece of fabric tape.

My flower....

I love how my flower came out!

You see I made it! No really I did!!! A couple of weeks ago I was at Hobby Lobby. Just ran in for some glue - nothing else I swear.... But I did have a 40% off coupon and saw a set of punches by McGill that well... I needed them. It is three punches with instructions for making roses. They have other sets for other flowers, that maybe one day I'll need to. I punched out of light pink card stock and then shaded and added pink Copics for depth. The leaf punch is part of the set as well. I used green Copics to add veins and shadows there as well. After it was all glued together and gorgeous I decided it needed some texture and bling. So I sprayed with Goosebumps and Smooch... Has a shiny sparkle now. Frustrated not as much as I wanted... but both sprayers are clogged ... grrrrrrr....

Kept the inside simple and ready for anything.

She was so happy to have some ink again!

I found that this qualified for  Cute Card Thursday Challenge - Pink and Green

Have a wonderful day....and see you tomorrow for the Whimsy Challenge -

Hugs and

Animal Crackers - Cute, Sweet, and Playful

Lots of Cute going on here folks! Lots of stress, and worry as well. But things are looking up. We had the Doc out here yesterday to see Lillie. Her milk bag has Mastitis... I don't know it that is the correct grammar or not, but basically her milk bag has hardened on one side and the milk is bad. So every 3-4 hours hubby and I are milking her out. Seems like such a waste but we need to get the bad milk out and keep her "working" so as the meds fix things she can produce good milk. Now the other side is working pretty well and the little boy is eating on his own on that side. The little girl... uh no - I have been bottle feeding her. I enjoy doing it, but I seriously don't want to do it long term. I would like her to learn to eat from Mom, and hopefully once Lillie is all good, she will do just that.

Now I must say here... I know I am a dork. When I showed off photos of the babies the other day I was so totally exhausted, and when going through names I had narrowed it down to two "couples" and I took the guy name from one and girl name from another when doing my photos and post... But in my head I had it right! LOL But the babies names are "Danny and Sandy"

They are just precious -

Speaking of babies... Flavio - I got a great photo of him playing with his Mom who has a lot of patience.

I am afraid that Flavio is going to be one of our wild kids. One of Bella's past babies was the same way, not the normal obnoxious friendly baby. We will keep working with him.

This is the normal afternoon view into the goat pen...

They have a really shady part of the pen late afternoon - and this is the perfect place for that nap all the kids need. Ok the Moms need too...

The Kids do play hard when they are awake though....

This is Bobby Hill and Popeye being boys... they like to push, shove and butt heads. these are two of the boys that will not go to auction. They are both VERY friendly... like untie your shoes, chew on your pants leg, pull on your shirt and climb on your back friendly. :0)

Got a pretty photo with my phone the other day - we were coming through our front gate and the three standards were grazing in our front pasture. This view of Cocoa I thought was really pretty -

Now.. here is another photo from my phone - just was too funny to not share.

I had been sorting through the mail and the junk mail, and the newspapers and was throwing away the trash in a paper sack... I came back by a few minutes later and the sack moved... Gato had taken up residence. So this sack was not trash until she was done with her nap -

Libbie posed again for me... and I got a couple that were actually decent - Our little rollie pollie girl.

Since being fixed Libbie is putting on just a bit too much weight... So we are going to have to really watch her eating habits and make sure she doesn't get too many rolls on her. You know weight carries really heavy on short people. :0)

And it seems I can't end an Animal Crackers with out a photo of Mr. Tuco... if I do I hear about it don't I? :0) He is changing so fast! but MAN look at all that gorgeous copper on him!

He has a few large spots on his back and his legs are solid copper now.


Ok.. a few questions from comments to answer -

Someone asked what font I am using ... It is in the template designer and I believe it is called "Indy Flowers" -

Then I had questions about our three standards... If you were a reader way back I talked about how we came to raising donkeys. When we purchased our property it had a donkey on it. I purchased her for $2.00 "with the property" as the previous owner did not want to take her. I feel so in love with Consuela that when looking into what we were going to raise here.. I wanted to do the donkeys. The only donkey that you can raise for Agriculture exemption for property is Registered Donkeys, I found a lady not to far that had registered Mini's - that I had never heard of much less seen. So we scheduled a visit. We drove up and Hubby saw my face and that was it... we were going to raise Mini Donkeys. But Consuela needed a friend to roam with so we purchased a young standard boy to be her friend. That donkey.. is Ted E. Bear our greeter donkey now. A year or so passed... and Consuela got sick, a rare thing, but very serious. She died. We thought that Ted could be friends with the mini's but he started roaming the property calling out for his girlfriend  - - - we were told by our vet that some donkeys will literally walk themselves to death looking for their partner that dies. So we quickly went out and found him a new girlfriend hoping that would make him settle down. That girlfriend - Cocoa.  A few months later... Cocoa gave us our third standard Valentine as she was pregnant when we purchased her. That is our Three Stooges now..   Now I was asked about the forth standard. That is Juliet - the three stooges are afraid of her and run and hide from her - so she lives in our youth girls pen. And loves being the big girl in the pen, taking care of all her little friends.

I hope I didn't miss a question - if I did.. please ask again in your comments and I will try to answer ASAP.

Have a great weekend. We are doing clean up today... as tomorrow we are having out some family and friends for dinner -

HUGS and-

Just Magnolia and Hanglar Challenge - Gingham

Hi -
Happy Friday! It is Just Magnolia & Hanglar Challenge - and today it is all about Gingham! I love Gingham... those adorable little boxes in all colors. For me this was also a great chance to use my new Magnolia image... Little Miss Muu Muu - totally love her!

Calves are just adorable, Cows... not so much :0) I say that because shortly after we moved to "the country" we found ourselves with three cows. I named them of course and we started caring for them all while trying to find the owners. Days.. then Weeks.. we still had the cows. Then one day there was a fourth... one dropped a baby. And oh my our property... they licked my truck, "went" everywhere ( and that was just plain gross) broke fences... well you get the point. And they were not friendly at all. We gave them to a local that had cows and decided to stick to donkeys.

Ok how about I get to my card? LOL I used my copies to color her, and then found some October Afternoon papers that were looked like Miss Muu Muu would like. Sewed things together. I then cut out a My Favorite Things doily and a couple of circles out of scraps. I stamped a sentiment from Stampabilities, then placed it over the corner and cut it down. A Red gingham ribbon around the bottom, and then my flowers. I looked up and saw my vase of flowers from the craft store. They are plastic, but they are just like the ones Miss Muu Muu is holding! A few Martha Stewart Frond leaves and done!

Close up of my flowers.

I then picked up my scraps and did a simple inside

 Fun card - with two patterns of Gingham for the challenge. Now it is your turn to visit the Just Magnolia and Hanglars Challenge and enter a card with gingham for this weeks prize.

Better go and check on the new kids. Still having problems with them eating from Mom - but they seem to be doing pretty good. I hope they can continue to get stronger and we get them eating 100% from Lillie.

See you tomorrow for Animal Crackers -
HUGS and -

Long Night... Lillie has two precious babies

Well, things looked like they were going really good.... About 7:30 last night Lillie had her first little baby. All on her own, and he was doing great. (Lillie has had multiple breech babies and two still born babies) She was trying to deliver the second and just couldn't do it. After watching her really close we saw that she was worn out and just couldn't push anymore. That meant trouble. So we had to help. We don't like to help with the birthings unless it is totally necessary, Well #2 was stuck big time, and wasn't budging for us either. I was really getting worried. But finally we got it to start moving, then stuck again. There was no life in the little one at all. We thought that it was dead. So we decided that if we didn't do something we could loose Lillie as well... so we pulled. This is a total last resort... Hubby finally got it coming out again and her little head wasn't coming it was folded backwards. That was why she was stuck. He gave one big pull and she popped out. Hardly no life, barely breathing. I cleaned her up, cleared her mouth and nose and then gave her to Lillie. Who did a much better job cleaning on her. After about 30 minutes, her little head started popping up and moving around. After about an hour she started moving her legs a bit. After that I decided that she needed to stand up and really clear her lungs... so I held her in a standing position for a while. Her little legs were not strong enough to stand on her own. But after a while, she was trying to do it on her own, not well... but she was trying. Then she got her legs under her and was figuring out walking. Now #1... he was a handful. All over the place, screaming and hungry!

Now Lillie's milk bag was enormous. HUGE and I never thought about her having any problems with that. But it seemed that it was so large, that one the babies can't find the end to eat as it is literally touching the ground. And two, so large it has gotten hard and painful for Lillie. So I worked with her all night and then was up at dawn and out there trying to get the babies to eat. Finally with Hubby's help we got one side "working" and got the little guy eating, and man was he eating! But our little girl, she just can't get the hang of it, and the other side is just not letting the milk out... I will spend the day working on it, massaging and putting warm wet towels to hopefully fix things. The little girl is weak, but moving around great and has her lungs working just fine. That is a good sign, and hopefully today we will get the food source going and help them figure out to look lower than nature's instinct has them looking. Until then I will have to keep trying powdered newborn goat milk.

ok... wanna see them after all my rambling? (sorry lack of sleep)

 Despite Hubby rolling his eyes at me... I named them Johnny and Sandy. So who can tell me where I got those names from? Anyone? LOL .... OH my I am editing this to say I know I am an idiot... Of course it is Danny and Sandy.... The other names I was thinking of had Johnny in it.. and with my lack of sleep.... Duh.. DANNY and SANDY.... 

Totally love this photo - Lillie and her giant bug eyes cleaning on them, and Daddy Peso in the background in his own pen that we refer to "Peso's Pad"  just watching and keeping an eye on everything.

Little Sandy's ears haven't perked up yet, I am hoping that we get some meals into her and they will. She has one leg that is still not 100%, but it is getting better the more she is moving around. I just pray that we can get everything working well and normal. These are my last two babies for a long time and I don't want anything to happen to either of them!

Oh and just in case you haven't figured out where the names came from... I saw the movie "GREASE" this weekend. :0)

HUGS see you tomorrow for Just Magnolias and Hanglar challenge -