Saturday, December 31, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!





Well, not yet, but just a few hours away! I am not a resolutions kinda gal but I do think ahead into the New Year and set goals for myself. Yes, I have some unfinished business from 2011. Doesn't everybody??

I definitely have some DIY creations that need to be put into play. Well, they are still in my head and I just need to start creating!! I am trying to juggle two blogs, watching my clever 2 1/2 year old little lady grow, looking after my hubby, keeping the house and all that THAT entails. I am completely busy. I go to the gym 6 days a week. That is a passion for me. Really! It used to be a chore but I have lofty goals set for the New Year! Now, it is a love! I am working on a non-traditional lullaby cd as well. THAT is a spill over of last year. MUST get that finished in time for Christmas. Ummmm Christmas 2012!!

I am going to TRY and keep posting as frequently as I can. Like I said, I have some DIY creations that I am about to dive into. I will post the pictures when I'm done.

I hope you all have an amazing New Year!!!! I'm going to kick next year in the pants!!! I mean that in the most positive go get 'em kind of way!!

Out for now and CHEERS!!!!!!
Posted by Liz at 5:45 PM

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The Magpie's Nest

by Joseph Jacobs
English Fairy Tales

All the birds of the air came to the magpie and asked her to teach them how to build nests. For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests. So she put all the birds round her and began to show them how to do it. First of all she took some mud and made a sort of round cake with it.

"Oh, that's how it's done!" said the thrush, and away it flew - and so that's how thrushes build their nests.

Then the magpie took some twigs and arranged them round in the mud.

"Now I know all about it!" said the blackbird, and off it flew - and that's how the blackbirds make their nests to this very day.

Then the magpie put another layer of mud over the twigs.

"Oh, that 's quite obvious!" said the wise owl, and away it flew - and owls have never made better nests since.

After this the magpie took some twigs and twined them round the outside.

"The very thing!" said the sparrow, and off he went - so sparrows make rather slovenly nests to this day.

Well, then Madge magpie took some feathers and stuff, and lined the nest very comfortably with it.

"That suits me!" cried the starling, and off it flew - and very comfortable nests have starlings.

So it went on, every bird taking away some knowledge of how to build nests, but none of them waiting to the end.

Meanwhile Madge magpie went on working and working without looking up, till the only bird that remained was the turtle-dove, and that hadn't paid any attention all along, but only kept on saying its silly cry, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last the magpie heard this just as she was putting a twig across, so she said, "One's enough."

But the turtle-dove kept on saying, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

Then the magpie got angry and said, "One's enough, I tell you!"

Still the turtle-dove cried, "Take two, Taffy, take two-o-o-o!"

At last, and at last, the magpie looked up and saw nobody near her but the silly turtle-dove, and then she got rarely angry and flew away and refused to tell the birds how to build nests again.

And that is why different birds build their nests differently.