I was out and about today trying to get some better pictures of my felted Holstein.  53 beautiful degrees in January!  I was looking for some different backgrounds.  She looked pretty next to the tractor bucket.

She looked ok on the salt block in the barn.

Pretty cute in the dead grass.

While photographing the Holstein, I noticed one of our cows peeking at me through the fence.

I think cow lips are cute.

She was thirsty.

Had to text this to my husband at work.  Hi from H9. 

So then the sheep arrived on the scene.  They didn’t want the cows getting all the attention. 

Just finished up with our County Fair this last week.  5 days packed with activities and shows.   The kids worked hard getting ready for this years fair.  We took two stock trailers this year.  6 beef, 8 sheep and 19 chickens.  The kids and animals did well, we came home with many ribbons and awards.  Here are a few pictures from the fair:

The fair is over and it is time for pictures

The kids with their beef animals the last day of the fair.

Reserve Champion Registered yearling ewe

The Fair is over, no more pictures please!!

Grand Champion Overall Registered ewe, my daughter won sheep showmanship as well.

The kids with some of their show sheep.

Grand Champion overall Registered Ram

washing them up for the premium sale

Sheep show at the Fair

The third day of the Fair, just a little bit tired.

Beef Show

waiting for the sheep show to begin

Beef Show

Poultry show

Poultry show

Poultry show

The winner of the Sheep Felting kit is: Laryn!  

Thank you everybody for participating, I had so much fun with this promotion!  I am planning many more giveaways in the future so keep trying.

Teresa Perleberg

Enter below for a chance to win this Needle Felting Kit:   Giveaway contest ends 12pm Sunday, July 17, 2011

Sheep needle felting kit:
(beginner)

Included in this kit:
~enough wool to make a three inch sheep
~black wool
~pink wool
~2 felting needles
~Felting Cushion
Instructions on how to make the sheep with photographs of each step by Fiber Artist Teresa Perleberg.

I finished this bunny and went out to get some good pictures of her and to my surprise there must have been a big hatching of mosquitoes.  They were crazy insane and I couldn’t stand still enough to take a good picture for all the mosquitoes trying to bite me.  They were all over my bunny as well, I had to slap them off of her too.      The pictures turned out ok, except for the mosquito that wouldn’t leave her ear.
She is available to purchase in my Etsy shop.

Baby’s have been arriving at the Bear Creek Ranch and keeping me busy night and day.  We have 6 little lambs so far this spring.  If you can call it spring that is!  We still have several feet of snow on the ground and it has been cold.  It is snowing again right now in fact.  I have kept the lambs in the barn so far, since their entire pen behind the barn has several feet of snow in it.  The ewe’s have a little path through the snow going out to their bale feeder.  We had the sheep sheered last week and they have been shivery cold ever since.  I feel so sorry for them.  I expected to warm up a little faster than this!  We like to have them sheared before lambing as it makes it easier for the lambs to find milk right away when they are born.  Plus I was in need of some wool.  Some colors are in short supply.

Marley was my first ewe lamb born on this farm.  All they had were ram lambs up to that point which was depressing since I was trying to build the sheep flock.  Needless to say she is pretty special.  (she is the lamb I am holding on the front page of the website.)  She was the first to lamb this year with her very first lamb.  She is an excellent mother and “Twizzler” is extra cute!

More pictures coming soon!

It’s time to get ready for the County Fair.  The kids are busy getting their beef projects trained to lead.  It was a hot day, so they got a nice cool bath with the hose.