Happy birthday, ladies!

March 28th marked the official one-year anniversary of when we got the chickens!  That means they turned one about a week before that.  Since we don't know exactly when their birthday is, we celebrated on Saturday, and by celebrate, I mean we made a delicious chicken dinner. ;)  Not with our chickens, though!  All five of our chickens are alive and well - here's proof:

These two loud-mouths are the sassiest of the five:

And this is what those troublemakers looked like a year ago:

Our fluffy little chicks are all grown up!

My first quilt

Quilting has always seemed far too difficult and intimidating to attempt, but the ladies I work with encouraged me to try.  One of the girls put a quilt together for her son in just a couple days!  She brought it in to show us and I finally got to see what the back of a quilt top looks like.  That sneak peek was really the tipping point for me because it made me realize, "Oh, that's how you put all those tiny pieces together!  I can do that!"

I chose a pattern that used different sized squares that looked pretty but that I thought would go together fairly easily.  I didn't want to mess with triangles or crazy shapes on my first attempt at quilting.  I thought about what color scheme I wanted, and I decided to use my polka dot sheets as inspiration.  The dots are purple, pink, lime green, Tarheel blue, teal, and navy.  I also got a solid teal quilted bedspread for Christmas.  My mom and I spent a couple hours at the store matching up colors and prints, and we came up with the perfect combination of fabrics.  When we got home, I realized the fabric I had made my dog's blanket and pillowcase out of matched my quilt perfectly!  So I used some of the scraps to make binding for the edges of the quilt and it really pulls the whole room together.  Here are the sheets, bedspread, and quilt:

Here's Paisley being forced to pose with all the matching blankets and pillows:

Now everything on the bed matches and I love it!

Mission accomplished.