Hen.C.I.S Egg Quarters

My hubby and I thoroughly enjoy sitting down after the girls have gone to bed and watching our favourite programs on the box. One of our favourite shows was the inspiration for our first official Family Project.. An idea born from the 'want' to spend quality time together as a family unit with a minimum budget, separate from the everyday hustle and bustle that life brings.. something we could all do together.. with creative expression splashed around and a ton of fun!

Over the last few months, my hubby and I had been throwing ideas around on how we could build our very own chook pen.. Our excited 7 year old, Miss Tamar fell in love with the idea of having chickens.. Just to add to our little menagerie consisting of our dog Rusty, our Guinea Pigs, Jedi and Dash, and our Goldfish Speedy and Diamond.

So the plan was hatched :) - To use the girls old cubby house (which was really too small and not very exciting) and transform it into the chook pen!

 Not the most fantastic photo, but you can see the original cubby house. So hubby built the stilts and base, a bit like a table - and placed the cubby house up on top and added rails to stop it from sliding off! He took the hinged door off for later use- and there it stood alone for months, until we could decide what was next..

Friends of mine had purchased some lovely hens of their own - 4 of them.. and had named them Sophia, Dorothy, Blanche & Rose affectionately named after The Golden Girls.. 

So this got me thinking about our favourite TV shows.. NCIS was a big one..  We both loved it.. We couldn't choose between NCIS or NCIS L.A.. So settling upon the female characters - we had named our hens before getting them - Hetty, Kensi, Abby and Ziva..

Abby -played by Pauley Perrette. Miss Tamar asked if we could
buy Abby (our chicken) a dog collar with spikes..  

Kensi - played by Daniela Ruah

Hetty - Played by Linda Hunt

Ziva - Played by Cote De Pablo

Pleased with our choice in names.. that light bulb moment occurred for me and the title - HEN.C.IS Egg Quarters fell out of my mouth whilst in fits of laughter.. That was it.. Our plan was to create a secret agent theme, and Miss Tamar was so excited.. 

So with our theme sorted, and armed with our paintbrushes off we all went to begin painting it up. The girls, Miss Tamar (7) and Miss Willow (2.7) had so much fun, dripping and splashing the paint around!

Rusty - Supervising!

Miss Tamar's Love heart blossoms

Paint Jars

Finished Product!

Heart Warming Message To Our Chooks!

Special Agent Chicken Mural.. :)

Now with the decorating done and dusted.. It was off to the produce store to purchase our new employees.. Well they will be working for scratchings and we will be paid in eggs.. lol

Rusty - Giving the new recruits their induction..

Ziva

The girls demonstrating a line- up!

Ziva and Hetty - with Kensi in the background
checking out her  office space..

The ever curious - Abby checking the perimeter..

Hetty 

Signed, Sealed and Painted..

With Our first Family Project completed.. We are all proud as punch of our new little friends!

Debut..

I have begun to collate the photos I have taken over the last few years.. Not all of them of course :) But the ones that have been captured purposefully for their visual arrangement or that special moment. I do not have a fancy schmancy camera.. I use a Panasonic DMC-FZ5. I've had my camera for almost eight years.. I don't even know how to use all the functions hehehe But it serves me well as is! I have recently begun a journey of discovery, where I am looking for man made objects vs. nature.. I find the contrast very interesting.. Both extremely powerful forces to be reckoned with. I am using a Flickr account as a housing space for my photos, so here is the link if you wish to check out my pics!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fallenagent_007/

Let me know what you think! :)
Lisa

* UPDATE: October 2013 - I have recentley deactivated my Flickr Account.. As I would like to blog about my lense captures as a point of interest and share with you the way that I view the world.. :)
More updated posts to come in 'Through The Lense' :)*

Stepping into It..

Well, here it is! My very first post on my very own blog :)

I was recently inspired by my girlfriend Nina from ninavcreations.blogspot.com.au to delve into the world of blogging.. I have been bouncing around from blog to blog - blog surfing I guess for many many months enjoying the reads, and feeling so inspired by what people were doing. Enjoying everything from the arts, photography, gardening, thrift shopping and renovating.. Everything I am passionate about.. Well why not put it all in one space and see if people would enjoy my read, and my crafts and my thrifting and so forth and so forth.. So a big Thank you goes out to you Neens for yet again inspiring me to do something I love and share it with the world!