This weekend's project had an important purpose and involved the whole family, including our backayard chickens. Read about how and why I made this nativity scene for my daughters here.
This Week's Featured Blogs
There were so many fun and clever blog posts this week, thanks to all who took the time out of this busy holiday week to share!
You won't want to miss the beautiful creations by Penelope at Highland Monkeys. This week, she shared several intricate projects she has been working on, including a 'nose warmer' and quilt. I am smitten by these tiny mice; aren't they adorable?
A Year of Work on the Homestead Part I is a truly fascinating post on the Live Ready Now blog that documents one Florida family's homesteading journey and life off-the-grid with six children.
Crystelle, of Crystelle's Boutique, displays her Idaho pride above her piano
with these beautiful potato sack stockings!
Clever Chicks Blog Hop #10
You’re invited to LINK UP!
Do you have a clever blog post to share with us this week? We’d love to read it!
Despite the title, this is an equal-opportunity link party!
How to Link-up
Share your clever ideas, DIY projects, recipes, tutorials, decorating tips, stories, Pinterest projects/recipes you’ve tried, Etsy store creation, posts about your chickens, farm animals or other pets, whatever you choose- BE CLEVER!
Use the direct link to your blog post, not to your blog’s home page,
we want to be able to find your clever post!
we want to be able to find your clever post!
If you have trouble linking up, the following two tips should help OR, feel free to email me the URL to your post and I will add it for you! Kathy@The-Chicken-Chick.com
1. Add the link to this Clever Chicks Blog Hop to your blog FIRST, before submitting your link to the hop or the link tool won't work.
2. Utilize the 'Try here" option if you have done #1 without success.
3. Changing browsers may help.
About Featured Blogs
My favorite posts will be FEATURED on Clever Chicks next week! I will also share the Featured blog posts on my Facebook page, The Chicken Chick, pin them to my “Clever Chicks” Pinterest board and the featured bloggers are invited to brag about how clever they are by posting the Clever Chicks "Featured” button on their blogs!
I really enjoy your blog.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute nativity with egg shells. And so many more neat ideas with the other blogs. Looking forward to the new give away! I like the silver one. Hope you had a wonderful Thankgiving!
ReplyDeleteI look forward everyday for your posts and of course I did what need to be done to win the skelter.
ReplyDeleteWhat an exciting giveaway! That Egg Skelter is wonderful! Thank you for hosting this fun party! -Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
ReplyDeletehopefully i win some eggs!!!! really looking forward to expanding my flock. thank you!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until I have chickens of my own to fill up the Egg Skelter! Love your blog. It's very informative.
ReplyDeleteAnother great giveaway! Thanks hun. ;) And I have to tell you how much I adore the nativity. :) Well done!
ReplyDeletePlease count me in for the Egg Shelter giveaway!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteIs this the right place to comment for the Egg Skelter Giveaway? I subscribed via email, I'm also following you on Facebook and Pinterest. I'm happy to have been referred to you. I look forward to reading more into your blog and getting to know you.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting ! Have a great week :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet nativity scene you created, so unique and clever. Love those potato sack stockings too. Thanks so much for hosting and inviting me over to the party:-)
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome tool! I would love to have it!
ReplyDeleteI'm so grateful to have found your blog through Facebook. I was a chicken newbie when I found it and it's helped me so much. I look forward to your blog updates every day :)
ReplyDeleteI just love all the wonderful ideas I find through your blog!
ReplyDeleteCool. Another chance at an egg skelter! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI so love your blogs Kathy and I would so love to win an egg sketter. Bill Bubba Jewett
ReplyDeleteThanks Jackie! I love the blog hop myself, tons of talent and creativity from so many people every week!
ReplyDeleteThat's so nice of you, Martha. I remember when you were new to chicken-keeping; you're a seasoned pro now! ;)
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the giveaway. Thanks for participating!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us, Betsy! I'm looking forward to reading your post!
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda, you too!
ReplyDeleteThis is the place Heather. Thank you for joining me, happy to have you along for the adventures!
ReplyDeleteYou're in, Cheryl!
ReplyDeleteThank you Sarah. ♥
ReplyDeleteOh, please enter me to win! Thanks for the giveaway and great posts.
ReplyDeleteHi Marci! Thanks for linking up this week and good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Georgia!
ReplyDeleteThanks for another shot at the egg skelter!
ReplyDeleteThanks Christine! Good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteYou're entered, Elizabeth. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting! I follow you by email and on Facebook! What a great giveaway! Perfect for our abundance of eggs!
ReplyDeleteWe all need to be reminded as to what this season is all about...not just the children. I think that the adults have also forgotten. Follow your blog now that I have the girls.
ReplyDeleteThank you for inviting me back. I hope your give away goes well!
ReplyDeleteGarrett @TheGrowingPatch:twitter
http://www.growingpatch.com
thanks for all the good information. No matter how many times I read your posts, I always learn something new!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for hosting!! Nichi
ReplyDeletelove the egg skelter! those are so neat!
ReplyDeleteThat egg nativity is the CUTEST EVER!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the nativity! Thanks agsin for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAgain, great blog and so many wonderful ideas and tips.
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas decorations have come down from the attic, let the decorating begin. Wonder what the chickens will think. Thanks for another great post.
ReplyDeleteThose white mice are wonderful! Lots of great ideas here!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the invite :) I love the tiny mice as well! So cute :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting and thank you for the email reminder:)
ReplyDeleteHope your week is filled with lotsa of laughter!
Oh boy, now THIS is something I want to win! I hate trying to make sure I'm always using the oldest eggs first by rotating cartons. Bleh. Fingers crossed!
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting Kathy!
ReplyDeleteWe are kicking off the holiday season by filling our home with holiday cheer the healthy way. I shared a sweet, spicy, and decadent simmering potpourri recipe that doesn’t fill the air with fake scents that are harmful and toxic to us and our children.
You can also get a sneak peek at our holiday preparations.
The Official Scent of Christmas; A Simmering Potpourri Recipehttp://www.20somethingallergies.com/simmering-potpourri-christmas/
Thanks for hosting! I've linked up an easy way to get more liver into your diet (and why you should.)
ReplyDeleteI'm a subscriber! I would LOVE to win an Egg Skelter!!
ReplyDeletePlease enter me into the skeeter give away.these are so neat.
ReplyDeleteThose are the cutest thing ever, my eggs would look so pretty in one.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting! Have an amazing week!
ReplyDeletePlease enter me to win! I love your site!
ReplyDeleteLove your creativity! Hope I am entered.
ReplyDeleteSubscribed and this is my comment. LOVE the info you have here. I teach Heritage classes on Friday's and I send ALL my students to your site!
ReplyDeleteI've got your blog on my RSS reader list, and coincidentally heard of skelters for the first time yesterday!
ReplyDeleteWe would like to enter to win an Egg Skelter :) We so enjoy your blog posts, the ideas and helpful pointers in chicken keeping has helped us more then you know! LOL As chicken keeper newbies, we come here first to look up information. And, we like all your pretty pictures too! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you Kathie for the invite ! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat party! I'm your newest followerOh I've just seen you have recipes for pesto (looooooove it) so I'm heading over to check them out
I am sooo gratefull of your website/blog!!!! It has helped me out soooo much with my girls. From their well being to great coop ideas to comedy. I share alot of your posts with my fellow FB family with chickens. The EGG SKELTER is an envy among me and my fellow chicken family, so of course I would LOVE to have it!!!! It would be a great Christmas gift. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting the hop - so many interesting posts! Please enter me for that egg skelter - that beats my eggs piled on a plate method ;-)
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and have been reading it for quite a while now. You have such great ideas and it's nice to know there's someone else as nuts about their chickens as I am! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI follow via email and would LOVE to win the egg skelter :)
ReplyDeleteI subscribe to you with Google Reader via RSS. I love reading your blog. Thank you for taking the time to help inspire us.
ReplyDeleteAlready a subscriber! I would LOVE one of these! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAm I entered in the giveaway? I commented this morning but don't see it here...if not, could you please enter my name? I subscribe through the RSS on google reader. Thanks :)
ReplyDeletePick me!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for inviting me to your party. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Nici
Thanks for the fun party! I love the picture with your chickens. So cute!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Robyn! And thanks for linking up this week!
ReplyDeleteHi Nici! Thanks so much for linking up with us!
ReplyDeleteLOL! Good luck in the drawing, Heidi!
ReplyDeleteI haven't checked, but your comment needs to be left here: http://communitychickens.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-12-gifts-of-chickens.html#.ULGuEYfAefU
ReplyDeleteGood luck Jamie!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kathie! Best of luck in the drawing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for finding me for your Clever Chick Bloghop. I am now following you via email.
ReplyDeleteThank you Karen, it's nice to have you with me on my chicken adventures!
ReplyDeleteI hope they all get As when they subscribe, Gwen! LOL Thanks for the vote of confidence. :)
ReplyDeleteYou're entered and thank you!
ReplyDeleteHi Nancy! Thanks, you too!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up, Robin!
ReplyDeleteHi Winnie! Thanks so much for joining the party, it's nice to have you with us!
ReplyDeleteLOL, you're entered! Thanks for linking up, Danielle!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Tonya, that's really nice to know!
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the giveaway!!
Thanks so much, that's nice of you to say. ♥
ReplyDeleteAre you decorating your coop, Salome?
ReplyDeleteThank you Coleen! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you Cyn. ♥
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for inviting me to share my Pepperoni Pizza Dip...what a fun blog hop!!
ReplyDeleteHi Wendy! Thanks for linking up, happy to have you with us!
ReplyDeleteHi Camilla and thanks for linking up!
ReplyDeleteJen, you won the Rural Revolution Hand soap giveawy last week, check your spam folder for my email, I need your addresss! Kathy@The-Chicken-Chick.com
ReplyDeleteKathy, I sent my address to you. It was for the HogWash Soaps, right?
ReplyDeleteDid you? Did I reply? (don't laugh!) If I didn't reply, I didn't get it. If I did reply, I apologize for the redundancy. I just want to be sure you get the prize and I didn't make the usual note to myself that I received the address. Thanks Jen!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invite, I joined the blog hop and am a new follower, feel free to stop by and follow back
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Thank you for the invitation. I gotta say, blog hopping and egg skeltering all in one post sounds like a whole lotta fun!
ReplyDeleteLol! I'm not laughing at you, it is totally something I would do. Glad to see I'm not the only one who does stuff like that! :) You responded and I received my 2 bars of Rural Revolution soaps on Saturday. I sent you a message Sunday morning to thank you and let you know that I got the soaps :) Hopefully, I am on the right page! Maybe I was thanking someone else for something, lol!
ReplyDeleteI subscribe via Google Reader and this looks like a great prize!
ReplyDeleteSubscribe to my blog via email, done! dropastitch@yahoo:disqus.com
ReplyDelete2. Comment below. I llllllllllllove this thing!!!
What a cute blog! Miss my chickens and can't wait to start raising them again. Thanks for contacting me!
ReplyDeletexox
Nancy
http://lamaisonreid.blogspot.com/
My sister in England recommended your Facebook page! She's jealous that she can't enter your competitions!
ReplyDeleteWe bought a Hobby Farm in Summer 2011 and now have 24 chickens, 4 goats and 2 Great Pyrenees LGDs. I enjoy gaining as much info as I can!
Thanks for inviting me! Very nice blog!
ReplyDeleteLove your blog!!! I have been following you on FB for awhile now and I just love it! I love when you tell stories about your chickens and your set up is so cute!! :) I can't wait to go check out all the blogs here... and also hope I win that cute egg thing! It would look cute on my kitchen counter!! <3
ReplyDeleteI could SO use that egg skelter! Please enter me!
ReplyDeleteI really need and egg skeater
ReplyDeleteI already follow on Facebook, but gave in to my lust for an egg skelter. :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invitation Kathy, very nice roundup of creative ideas!
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever way to dispense eggs!!! Seriously a clever idea! I'm already a follower, thanks for adding my name to the pot.
ReplyDeleteI'd never seen an egg skelter before. I think I'm in love!
ReplyDeleteI love all things Chicken! I'm looking forward to spending time here. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I have entered this or not, can't seem to find my comment anywhere...I have so many chicken pages and they all have great information!
ReplyDeleteIs this where we enter to win the Egg Skelter?
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the invite :) I've linked up and am following you now via gfc. Hope you have a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteI'm a recent subscriber, and I love your blog! I've already learned a great deal from you. I've had chickens my whole life, and it is still fun to learn something new about them! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThis might be a duplicate entry....but I can't remember if I entered already.
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I love seeing all these creative ideas. Thanks for the chance to win today!
ReplyDeleteI would be honored to put my eggs in this egg skelter, what a great idea! Thanks for the chance to win one!
ReplyDeleteI love your blog!!! count me in for the egg shelter giveaway...does the Elf on the Shelf go with it?? lol....
ReplyDeleteGood morning, I like drinking my coffee and reading your blog in the morning.
ReplyDeleteI have learned so many new things here. I would love to have one of those egg holders. so cute.
Love reading your blog... thanks for your egg skelter give-away... This would make the perfect place to display our "home-grown" eggs on the kitchen counter!.....
ReplyDeleteChicken newbie here - lots of good info on your blog!
ReplyDeleteAlways love reading your posts! And the bloghop just makes it that much better. THank you! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your posts and the giveaways!
ReplyDeleteYou always find such interesting stuff for us.
ReplyDeleteLove the projects and the egg skelter! Great job!
ReplyDeleteI know I have said this before, but Kathy is my go-to chicken lady ~wink~ for all my informational needs. There are many blogs, sites, etc. out there, but this wonderful lady has it all! Thank you for all your hard work to keep us on our toes!
ReplyDeleteI'm following your blog via Google Connect now. We are an accidental chicken family and love the information available!
ReplyDeleteI get your email~ also follow you on gfc
ReplyDeleteHi, Kathy!! Love your Blog!!! This is my second time hooking up with you from Shoestring Elegance!! So glad and thankful to be able to join your party!! I pray you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
ReplyDeleteHugs and Blessings,
~Theresa.
Wow! What a great collection of ideas! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love keeping up with you via FB and your blog. I'm not new to chickens, but I've gotten so many great ideas from you!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
Happy to be joining the chick-chat. :-)
ReplyDeleteLoving the egg skelter.....and needing one for myself!! Love your blogs and all the great information and photos!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth and good luck!
ReplyDeleteThat's so nice of you to say, Amy, thank you!
ReplyDeleteHi Theresa! I'm so glad to have you linking up again, thanks for sharing your talents with all of us!
ReplyDeleteThanks for following, Vickie! It's nice to have you here.
ReplyDeleteYou always have so much cool stuff to learn about.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting, Kathy! I love your nativity scene idea!
ReplyDeleteThose potato sack stocking are adorable! and brilliant
ReplyDeleteHi Kathy,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing at this weeks Wednesday's Adorned From Above Blog Hop. I love you egg nativity scene. So cute.
Debi
Thanks for inviting me to your blog hop. I also begun following you through Google and Network blogs and hope you'll return the favor. Thanks again for hosting and will join you again next week!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the invitation to join your blog hop, what a happy place to be. So glad to have found you. ~ Abby
ReplyDeleteHi Kathy- thanks for visiting my blog, Altered Artworks, and inviting me to your linky party. Have a great day!
ReplyDeleteThank you for inviting us to your great party! We appreciate all the work you do so we can show off. We've joined your great blog. Hope you will join us!
ReplyDeleteLinda and Jeannie at the French Hen's Nest
This looks like a great blog hop!! Lots of intersting ideas!! Thanks for iniviting me and following you now!
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up Melanie!
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower, Linda and Jeannie! Thank you for linking up!
ReplyDeleteHi Doreen! Thank you for linking up with the Clever Chicks!
ReplyDeleteHi Abby! Thanks so much for sharing your link with us!
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower, Ron, thanks for linking up with us!!
ReplyDeleteI love them too. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Debi. My pleasure. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Nicholas. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up Lori!
ReplyDeleteThank you Renee, I appreciate the vote of confidence. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Melissa!
ReplyDeleteI try! :)
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, thanks Jennie and good luck!
ReplyDeleteHi Trish! Welcome to chicken-keeping! If I can help with any questions you have, please let me know!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Tracy. :)
ReplyDeleteThank you and good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThat's so nice of you to say, thank you!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Cheryl! No, but nice try. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for participating, Garilyn and good luck!
ReplyDeleteMe too, Langela! Good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteYou're entered, Stacy! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteHi Angie, thanks so much for following along with my chicken adventures!
ReplyDeleteHi Jessica, thanks so much for linking up with the Clever Chicks!
ReplyDeleteThis is the place, Elizabeth! Good luck.
ReplyDeleteThank your sister for me! Happy to have you here; you can enter the contests for your sister. ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you Nancy. I hope you can keep chickens again sooner rather than later. ♥
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining the Clever Chicks!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jaelle and good luck!
ReplyDeleteLOL, Amy. Good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThanks for following, Chrissy! Good luck in the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWhew! Glad I was on top of it, even if unconsciously? lol
ReplyDeleteLOL! Thanks for linking up!
ReplyDeleteThank you for participating, Janet!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us!
ReplyDeleteWhat's an accidental chicken family, Trina?
ReplyDeleteThank you for linking up, Alessio!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the invite and for hosting. :)
ReplyDeleteJulie
Thanks for linking up, Julie! Have a great week. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm totally loving your egg nativity. Gotta make one. Wish we had a female duck for the eggs, only male ducks, here. Thanks again, Linda
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not a chicken momma yet, but I plan on being one very very soon! Been loving your blog to get me up to speed!
ReplyDeleteI'm not a chicken momma yet, but I'm planning to become one very very soon. I'm learning so much from your blogs!
ReplyDeleteI would love to get this for my countertop, however if I don't win can you please tell me what the coupon code is to buy it I cannot seem to read the code.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting way to check track of my eggs. I love it. Your blog is always so interesting!
ReplyDeleteThis would be an awesome piece to set on counter and display eggs as well as keep up with the freshest and oldest eggs. I think I am going to get one for my sister in law for christmas.
DeleteWe would love an egg skelter! By the way, we appreciate your blogs and sharing on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteI love the Egg Skelter! I've wanted one for a long time. So glad they are available here in the US now. I am receiving emails and liked on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteLuv the give a way - I follow the blog!
ReplyDeleteI've really been enjoying your Facebook Page and now I'll be getting you in my e-mail, too! And I really want an Egg Skelter!
ReplyDeleteKathy, thank you so much for the invitation and for hosting! LOVE all the recipes and ideas people have shared and I love exploring new posts!!
ReplyDeleteI think i subscribed. I did the follow by email. =) i did know till just now you had a youtube channel, lol, and i have been this page i dont even know how many times and i have been following you on FB for like a year now. lol im blonde. =)
ReplyDeletethank you for hosting! I love those mice in your features, adorable!
ReplyDeleteHave a good sunday!
love the egg nativity. I should do this with my daughter.
ReplyDeletelove your blog, the hen bag, and the egg holder. hope to win. would make me happy. lol
ReplyDeletehi chicken chick thans so much for the advice about my chicken it was very helpful
ReplyDeletethanks for telling me what my chicken is it was so helpful
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