A Price for Living in Paradise

Juse one of the views from my deck after a nice snow.

Mountain living to some seems extremely hard, but yet everyone wants to come to the mountains when it snows, to get out of the heat, to smell the fresh pine scent, to snow ski, and best yet, to get away from it all and relax.   I’ve lived here in the small community of Forest [...]

Finding The Right Birdhouse That’s Perfect

Dragonflies House

Hello my friends and followers! When constructing my birdhouses it would be great to know what type of birdhouse my followers prefer? Please, take a gander at my sight then pin it, post it, like it, and please do leave a constructive kind comment on this page to help my decision on what’s your favorite. Simply move [...]

Building Birdhouses for Birds

"Build it and They Will Come"

I started building birdhouses 10 years ago when we first moved to the forest area. Never thought it would lead to a successful business opportunity. The first birdhouse I built the house and hole was so large the squirrels would eat their peanuts inside and then sleep there.  It was fun to watch these little [...]

Offering Gifts is an Act of Kindness

A Gift From The Heart

Appreciating someone with a personal gift is better than anything. Even though maybe, just maybe, at times it’s not exactly what you’ve expected or wanted. Look at it as if that one person is thinking of you and you only. They took the time out of their busy life to make a gift personal.  Unless [...]

Being A Female Entrepreneur

driftwood woodpecker birdhouse

  Did you know that more women are becoming self made entrepreneurs? I find it empowering that women these days do not depend on men to support them; we are more self-sufficient than ever. I am stronger than I’ve ever been. I have found that if someone tells me I can’t, I find a way [...]

Decorative Birdhouses Using Driftwood

This beautiful piece went all the way New Jersey for its new home. Photo by Michele Orsini

Living in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California provides an endless amount of inspiration for the birdhouses I create.   It’s here that you’ll likely find me creekside hunting for driftwood, which is often the focal point of my birdhouses.  The pieces I find once belonged to pine, oak, alder, and cedar trees, where [...]

Building Birdhouses with My Son

my son's birdhouse

Back when my son, who is now nearly 20, wanted to create with me we spent a day building birdhouses.  I was planning to show him how, but you know how that goes.  He insisted he didn’t need my knowledge and instead followed the directions in one of my birdhouse books. He cut out his [...]