Wear-n-Worn

i love wearing this vintage turquoise blue "house dress" with my red goat clogs.

is it wrong to wear a "house dress" out in public?  or to work?!

i just wear a black slip under it so if it gaps open in between the wide set buttons, no one gets a free show!  haha!

you know why i am smiling, right?

yep, because it has pockets...you guessed!

i am so close to the age where i probably won't wear any dress that doesn't have pockets.  just sayin.  does that mean i am getting old? or wise?  a little of both i'd guess?

you can barely see my strand of red jet glass beads.  i should restring these vintage beauties before they bust out all over the floor cuz that would be sad.

wearing that perfect-for-spring vintage plaid rain jacket again.

with a colorful bold stripe and cotton tassel scarf, nonetheless!

be bold friends!

don't be afraid to mix and match!

wear what makes you happy....this is your chance...go bold!

let em stare while you get away with it!

if it makes you feel good, wear it.  whatever it is, put it on.

and shine, shine, shine your brightest you!

currently wearing overalls with paint splatters,

xoxoxox

jennette

Hive Check

i was able to get in and check out my sweet honeybees last week.

this hive is actually only two deep but i was lazy and left the empty feeders on, with the third brown box covering them.

these are my tools.

smoker, hive tool: for prying apart propolis sealed boxes and frames, bee brush and frame holder.

this is the hive that i knew was empty of bees. 

they just didn't make it, even after all that.

but again, and anyways, i am lazy, so it sat like this all winter.

this is the inner cover of that "empty" hive.

and these are the frames of that "empty" hive.

do you see the markings on the tops of the frames...those tell me which way i want my frames facing and what year i started using that frame. the foundation wax in each frame has a design that is better used by the bees, they draw comb more quickly on it, if it is facing a particular way, a certain way, the right way, the way that helps them get a faster start and encourages them to start buliding comb at all!

details friends, details!

see that hole in my partially drawn foundation wax...that is because my hive was not indeed "empty" but was at some point, for a very SHORT time, occupied by a small critter.

here is the critters grassy little nest and some burr comb(the extra comb the bees build between gaps to make their perfect "bee space").  i got real lucky because although there was a little grassy nest and a hole in the wax foundation of one frame, there was no critter poop or pee or mess, whatsoever.  lucky indeed...an owl must have got the little bugger right after he built his nest and i am pleased!

so here we are back to the first hive, the active one, but after i took off the extra empty box, and you can see the sweet bees coming and going.

it's hard to get a close up without taking my gloves off and we all know that i still work my hives with my gloves on!

yep, that's me happy as can bee...

(since these photos were taken it became obvious that the active hive was doing so well that it needed to be supered!  that means that both the top and bottom hive bodies were so full of lovely sweet bees that i was able to add a honey super now, in early spring, and i may get some maple honey!  woot! not everyone loves maple honey but i am just darn excited that i figured out they needed more space BEFORE they swarmed on me again!  cheers to early honey supering!  yay sweet bees!)

in other news, and less importantly, i am over here working on more half done blog posts that have been sitting around with photos but no words since forever and a day. some are for my own documentry satisfaction and others are for you.  i know, i aim to please!

xoxoxox,

jennette

C.E.W.

i always look for items on etsy and ebay that have mine or my guys (all three of them) initials on them.

i found this lovely little "steampunk watch chain" on etsy with chad's initials.

i figure i can make it into some cool jewelry for myself. 

i love the fist with lightening bolts.

do you know what the symbol/emblem stands for?

maybe some kind of union/fraternal/brotherhood thing?

i think a little research is in order....

hope you all have a great weekend.

i plan to finish up my interior painting project at home.  i am covering dark grey walls with white "moonrise" so its coat after coat, ya know.  i can not wait to be done, let it cure, and get all my cool art back up on the walls.  just a few walls painted moonrise white can make all the difference in my little world! i will show you results soon.

fare thee well,

xoxo

jennette