Tasty Tuesday~ Potato Hash with an EGG on Top

            Welcome to Tasty Tuesday at Dandelion House! 
 With each passing day we have more daylight and you know what that means for backyard chicken keepers. Farm Fresh eggs are returning to the nesting boxes! For those of us who let our hens ' rest ' during the winter months it's so exciting to find the first egg of the coming season. The Cottage Hens are back in production here at Dandelion House and I'm on the look out for new recipes to use up those delicious eggs.

This weeks Tasty Tuesday recipe comes from  Joan, The Chicken Mama . She shared her recipe for spicy potato hash with an EGG on top on the Farmgirl Friday blog hop last week. 

  Everything's better with an Egg on top. ~ The Chicken Mama 

I couldn't agree more Joan! Thank you for sharing this recipe and happy cooking! 

 Nourish your family with food made with the freshest ingredients and a dash of love every day! 

* more delicious farm fresh recipes here.
 
    

Farmgirl Friday Blog Hop # 95

 

 Welcome to the Farmgirl Friday Blog Hop # 95.

Can you believe we are only 5 hops away from our 100th Anniversary?

I have to tease you just a bit... Heidi, Dolly and I have some amazing giveaways planned and a few other surprises too so be sure to stay tuned and continue to enter your posts every Friday! Be sure to stop by both Heidi and Dolly's' blogs to see who else is featured. It just might be you!

Your Farmgirl Friday Hostesses~ 

Heidi of My Simple Country Living 
and White Wolf Summit Farmgirl Blog
Dolly of Hibiscus House and Dolly is Cooking and me of course!

  Farmgirls love anything to do with homesteading, keeping chicken's, embroidering, sewing, knitting, spinning, quilting, natural home remedies for health care and cleaning, horses, goats, cows, organic gardening and cooking, caring for their loved ones and friends and are community minded. Re-purposing and UP-cycling are high on their list of " fun things to do too! Our resident "FARM-BOYS ' ( Clint the Redeemed Gardner and Rob of Bepa's Garden ) bring wheelbarrow's full of good organic gardening tips to this hop and we are honored to have them join in the fun each week!

As I write today we are waiting for the Blizzard of 2013 to arrive along the Eastern Sea Coast. If you are in the storms path stay safe! If we don't lose power I plan on doing some sewing this weekend.. I'm making pillows out of vintage table cloths and grain sacks for my booth! I promise pics next week! With high winds and over two feet of snow predicted why not settle in for some garden planning too?

Fruhlingskabine Micro- Farm shared a great post on setting up their own fodder sprouting system  as a way to ween their  farmyard animals off of processed feed and onto a more natural diet. Are you kidding me? I love this idea!

Rob of Beba's Garden shared his plans for cold frames and early seed starting. Like while there is still snow on the ground early...

Have you created a Children's Garden as part of your backyard farm? Gretchen of 

The Backyard Farming Connection wants to know! I fell in love with  the photos of her children's garden.

 Every child needs a garden to get lost in, dream in and grow in...

Now, it's your turn to link up for your weekly dose of farmgirl soul food!
 Here are the rules for the Farmgirl/guy Blog Hop!

1.) Write a post about your farmgirl lifestyle and brag a little about your farmgirl talents while your at it! Share what being a farmgirl means to you. Include lots of photos of your farm, crafts, animals,  quilts, home decor projects and thrifty make overs, your backyard garden, chicken coop, recipes, studio or workshop. You get the idea!

2). Leave your entry in the  Linky tools space to your  Farmgirl Friday post.

3). Please include the Farmgirl Friday button ( or link back here ) in your post and remember to share this hop with all of your blogging friends!

4.) Enter up to three entries per hop! 

 DON'T BE SHY~  

Be sure to leave a note if you're new to the hop! If you haven't clicked that follow button yet, please join us and be sure to stop by our FACEBOOK page and like us there too! 
As always, thank you for your continued participation and welcome new friends and followers!

Don't forget to grab your FEATURED FARMGIRL BUTTON if you've been featured!

 
 

Yours, in farmgirl spirit.
Deb, Heidi and Dolly

Homemade Coffee Sign Tutorial~ GUEST POST

Dear friends, I'm so excited! Manuela from the fantastic home making blog A Cultivated Nest is here to share her easy and frugal hand painted Coffee Sign Tutorial! Manuela has made a mission out of making do with the home you have now. Her blog is choc a block full of easy, frugal decorating ideas with practical charm and that warm, homey feeling. So sit back and enjoy this wonderful tutorial sure to inspire creative ideas of your own! Take it away Manuela!

Hi, I'm Manuela from A Cultivated Nest where I blog about gardening & making the most of the home you have now. I'm so excited that Deborah Jean asked me to share a project with you all!

  I'm going to show you how I made that hand painted “Coffee” sign. If you've ever priced hand painted signs on Etsy or eBay you know they can be pretty pricey. Well, they are really easy to make! 

  You need a piece of wood that you've painted in the color of your choice - I just used some aqua craft paint that I happened to have. Flat and satin is the best finish to use for this type of project. You are going to print out the words that you want on your sign. So what I do is open Word and start playing with the different fonts and sizes.  For this sign I used the Oldgate Lane Outline font and I changed the size to 200. The word "Coffee" is printed in landscape because otherwise you wouldn't be able to fit the whole word onto a sheet of paper at this size.  I just liked the font  and  had to try several different sizes before I found the one that would work with my piece of wood.

2.To transfer your word(s) onto your sign use either graphite paper which is what I did here or cover the back of your words with artists charcoal, crayon or press really hard so that an indentation is left. I’ve used all these methods and the graphite paper (Micheal's, Hobby Lobby, art stores etc.) has been the easiest to work with.

3. Use a dull pencil or something that’s not too pointy and trace over your printed out letters. You should have your board, graphite paper and printed out words in that order.

 4. Now that your letters are transferred, all you have to do is fill them in! You can use a brush or a paint pen if you think your hand isn’t steady enough for a paint brush. 

I’ve used them both and I find I like the paint pen better - it's easier for me to trace around the letters and then fill in. But if you like using a brush, a firm angled one is easiest to use in this application. 

 After your sign is dry, you can sand it as much or as little as you want to get a distressed vintage look. I sanded the edges and over the words. You can also seal it if you're going to put it in your garden.

Using this basic technique allows you to customize your sign any way you want. Plus these make great gifts or you can keep it for yourself! 

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