The early bird catches the worm

The first egg in the Hornby nest was laid early last evening...WHEN I WASN'T LOOKING! The incubation period takes only about 35 days give or take a day or two (wouldn't that be nice ladies), so if this little egg makes it we should have a hatch sometime around the 3rd week in April. Hopefully Mother Hornby will produce another egg in the next day or so. I'm warning all you newbies watching the live eagle cam IS addicting, it's crazy like crack, you sit and watch a silly egg for 32 days and then when it's hatched you watch the baby chick until it takes it's first flight.

Anyone who knows me know that this time of year I am waiting on the edge of my seat for the Hornby Eagles to lay their eggs. The time is almost here they are due any day now. Doug Carrick is the man who owns and runs the web cam for this site and he is predicting they will be here in 2 more days. The web cam will be on close up so we can actually see when the eggs arrive...it's just so amazing, of course you might have to watch and chat with the people in the chat room for the next 48 hours if you don't want to miss the big event. Go to the web site from time to time and be prepared to get lost in watching the beauty of nature, and if you read the chatter you will learn so much about how amazing eagles really are. You can find the link to the eagle nest and all sorts of other live web cams I watch on the left side of this blog just look for "La-Dee-Dah-live web cams" and then click on Safari-TV cam then look for Hornby Eagle cam (you will have to watch a short 30 sec. advertisment) then sit back and enjoy.

1st Day of Spring

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song".

This sweet little bird in the nest was inspired by the coming of Spring and will be posted for a new class for April.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

5 O'clock and I am Just sitting here drinking an Irish Beer ....ingredients left over from my cupcake baking. I swear I love to watch cupcake wars on Sunday nights on the food channel at 11:00 p.m. I decided since I had a class on St. Patrick's Day that I should surprise my class with what else but cupcakes, and hell I'm Irish so why not go all out??? These cupcakes are chocolate cake made with Irish Beer, with a surprise filling made of chocolate granache infused with Irish Whiskey and Irish cream and if that wasn't enough I topped it off with a Irish cream buttercream frosting! Bottoms Up!! no drinking after one of these cakes.

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn

I can't believe you are 4 years old already and look how big you are. Happy Birthday Kaitlyn!!!

The Big Birthday Bash

Last night "The Posse" celebrated Jackie's birthday, the Posse being Tanya, Erin & myself and Charlie being an "Honorary Posse member".Jackie's husband Charlie took all us girls out for a wonderful dinner at the Claim Jumper and treated us all to the Huey Lewis concert at the Green Vally Ranch Resort herein Las Vegas. We started the evening at the Claim Jumper then moved the party to a beautiful suite that Jackie and Charlie were staying in for wine and presents. On entering this beautiful room we smelled a really "spoiled" odor ....oh wait ... That was just Jackie being 'SPOILED ROTTEN" She got some really nice gifts. Anyone who knows Jackie knows that she is aexpert scrapbook maker & how she puts a story together with ease using paper, photos and stamps I will never know. I was just "pretending" to be a scrapbooker when I made herthis cupcake gift card holder...please don't look too closely Jackie, remember it's all about the love.

Okay so I am convinced that Erin is in the witness protection program because she never lets anyone get a good photo of her so we won't use her last name here in order to protect her identity and since she is so camera shy she is the one behind the camera taking this birthday photo.

How lucky am I?

This beautiful purse was made by my friend Tanya who is the type of creative person that can do anything and everything she does is beautiful. She sells her purses and other creative designs on her Etsy shop. You can find a link to her shop on the left side of this page- look under "networking" and then click on Bead and Needle. You can also find out more about her when you read her blog and that can be found on the right side of this page just look under "La-Dee-Dah Blogs"

Thanks so much for taking the time to take my very special order, I love this purse!!