Egg Overload!!!

My lovely girls have been producing delicious fresh eggs for me daily (even during the cold and frosty weather we've had recently) which is great!  The problem is that I just don't seem to be eating them quick enough!  I now have 42 eggs stockpiled in my kitchen... it's beginning to take over! Fresh eggs last up to 6 months (unlike the chemically treated eggs you find in the shops which only last a couple of weeks due to the 'bloom' being removed from the shells) so they've still got a long shelf life left - I've ordered some recycled egg boxes and plan to sell some to raise funds to rescue some battery hens in the summer :0)

A Tiny Touch

This heart charm bracelet is one of the few pieces I've made for myself - the charms have the imprints of my childrens pinky finger along with their names.  The charms were hand crafted and fired from silverclay, the bracelet is a shop bought sterling silver link chain.

With Love...

Here's another silver piece I've created incorporating a fingerprint. This time the charm was added to a long sterling silver chain along with a selection of crystal beads and twisted wire loops.

Survival....

On Saturday my family and I took part in another Bushcraft Survival Day run by Sunrise Bushcraft (http://www.sunrisebushcraft.com/) for disabled children and their families.  It was a a fun packed day which saw us building a woodland shelter, making bread (and eating bacon butties!), and lighting a fire.  My son had a fantastic time constructing the shelter which looked brilliant when it was finished!!!

Joshua putting up the 'frame'

Me and my little monkeys in the completed shelter :0)

Hubby cooking the bread and bacon on our fire... the bread was so delicious!!!

Hubby and daughter lighting the fire with flint, steel and cotton wool