Amelia and I participated in a recent "Trashin' Fashion Show" where all garments were made from recycled materials or trash....here is how our write ups read....

Amelia " This little cutie is sporting a skirt made from a dog food bag. Her tissue paper shirt was once packaging material. The stylish purse used to hold Capri Sun juice but now holds lots of treasures. Aluminum can tabs were used to make the strap of this shimmering accessory!"

Dana " This EGG-stravigant skirt is made from egg cartons of course! A recycled black trash bag that used to store flower pots now embelishes the egg cups to give a floral effect! The pink trim on the skirt once surrounded a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

The stunning top is recycling at it's finest ! The pink accent is made from hand made paper that was once junk mail, coloring book pages and maybe a bill or two!

To finish off the ensembe is the finest pearl jewelry of the recycled kind. These packaging peanuts were made from potato waste.

photos from the red carpet!!! Number 14 is one of our graduating seniors at Cantwell School....Windy Gore. She was "Bahama Ramen Mama".....and won a prize for most exotic!!! Her outfit was designed by a couple of the boys at school...go figure!!!

Ask and you shall receive? I guess it worked! I have had sheep on my mind since Idaho and we finally got one. "Cocoa" was a twin and she was much smaller than her brother so she wasn't able to nurse like she should. We are bottle feeding her every 4 hours and she is doing great. She is currently living in the bathroom until we stretch the feedings out enough. The funniest thing was when she tried to nurse on Piper today! Piper is such a good dog, she just turned in disgust and walked the other way! Our original intent was to raise a couple sheep to eat but not so sure that is still the plan......

We wanted to get the kids outside and do something together as a family. It's hard going around here because there are bare patches of ground in some places and two feet of snow in others.....so we decided to trap beavers under the ice near our house. The kids were troopers...the first day we walked from our house and back and they played in the mud for three hours in the rain while Lance and I chopped holes in the ice and decided where to put the traps. The second day we came back to check and had caught one....the third day we caught one more and then we pulled the traps. We didn't want to take all the beavers out of this lodge......The kids enjoyed carrying the beavers and watching Lance skin them. We will either sell the fur our use it for mittens, hats or mukluks.....