The 2 older siblings, enjoying the 7 warm new babies on top of them..its been cold here, and thats a tiny kitty bed. They are so precious. I can't believe how loving a cat family is. We have Momma kitty and the 2 surviving kittens from her first kitter, plus her 7 babies. They will be given away shortly. They just pile on each other for comfort, and if their bed gets removed you know it, they get very very upset. They feel safe only in a bed. I feel bad for the ones who will go without a buddy, I see the 'emotional' support they give each other.
I made stencils for an outdoor sign. Cricut machine is definitely broken, I have to hold my hand on the blade to cut through the paper.
Its hard to find egg signs *that aren't expensive
I had found clearanced, rough cedar boards from Wal-Mart's craft department and used acrylic paints, I will seal it with Thompson's Water seal. I am going to make a raw honey sign next.
I had one empty frame sitting on my counter for a week, I didn't know what to do with it, since we aren't opening the bees back up at this point.
So I rendered the wax in the oven at 180 to 190, using a turkey pan and mesh screen- for windows. It came from my bee vacuum supplies, the roll I bought this past summer. I layered 3 pieces of screen. And look how nice it filtered the wax for me. Maybe enough for 2 tea lights! LOL! No wonder real wax and real honey is so darn $$. Bees aren't out to make a profit, as all their goods comes in smaller quantities. For if they had a use for money, and as hard as bees work for their home- 'busy as a bee', they surely would rule the world better than we!!
We were thinkning it might be fun to get a wax seal to play around with for thank you notes. One with a honey bee!