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Halloween fun

  • two glass votive holders covered with white yarn and black spiders to make Halloween candle holders
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About alecia

Chicken Scratch NY is where I chat about low-tech living like raising chickens, growing food, quilting, and picking up traditional skills that used to be common knowledge.

Most of the time I’m experimenting, fixing a lot of mistakes, or trying something new.

CSNY is a place for the real version of homestead life: useful, imperfect, always a work in progress & learning old skills without pretending the past was perfect.

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Crafts & DIY

  • 4 skeins of embroidery thread including gray Mouline Etoile, dark green pearl cotton, glow in the dark and orange 6 strand embroidery thread on a white background with text overlay " Guide to Specialty Thread for Punch Needle Embroidery"
  • large glass jar filled with tan brown bath salts with text overlay "easy DIY foaming bath salts"
  • two glass jars holding lime green bath salts on a white surface

Farm

  • close p view of chick standing on wood shavings everything you need to know about tractor supply chickens"
  • brooder tub with heat lamp filled with chicks, duckling and turkey poults from a cackle hatchery surprise box

Garden

  • upturned flower pot with hand painted flowers and text " worm hotel" painted on the brim sitting in garden soil with yellow and white daffodils in the background with text overlay" Easy & Fun DIY Garden Art"
  • white pattypan squash on the vine with a smaller green pattypan squash and a large yellow squash blossom with text overlay "how to grow summer squash: varieties & planting tips"
  • clump of green garlic with roots and green sitting on garden soil with text overlay "how to grow, harvest, store & eat Green Garlic"

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