A Bird Themed Child's Playroom

My daughter with her stuffed animal toucans (all gifts) and toucan art from Minted.com. We're renting a warehouse for the winter months up here in north Idaho for our birds - we usually keep them outside year round but that's not happening here in Idaho! It's not Florida weather anymore, that's for sure! We had looked into certain types of part...
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A Toucan Bird Themed Nursery

Glider chair with custom diaper bag.  My husband and I knew that we'd want a bird theme of some sort no matter what gender our baby turned out to be. We thought about going with a blue bird, like our blue throated macaw "Jinx", if we had a boy. Then our colors would be blue and yellow. And if a girl, maybe we would go with the theme of galahs -...
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The Ultimate Daddy-to-be Survival Kit

The Ultimate Daddy-to-be Survival Kit I made for my hubby. When I first learned there was such a thing as a "hospital survival it" or "daddy-to-be survival kit", I was super excited and curious. I looked at just about every one blogged about online and studied what was in them. But I felt like a serious personal touch was missing - and maybe it...
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How Many Cages Do I Need?

Photo by Dave Location: Waynesboro, VA Shown: Galah "Bandit" Whenever I go out of town and leave my birds behind, I always make sure they are housed in their own cage. I would hate for a fluke accident to happen and my birds to get in a fight that someone can't break up, resulting in serious injury. Even when birds get along really well, they a...
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The Basics of Living With a Parrot

Photo by Dave Location: Moab, UT On my shoulder: Blue throated macaw "Jinx" So, I'm going around with my husband Dave in January and doing "at home" consults with him for needy bird owners.  And today I was going through the many emails we received about people begging us to come to their home and help them with their parrot problems... trying ...
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