Dear Sisters,
Have you noticed how many adult coloring books have appeared in the marketplace lately? Just about every subject possible is available, but, it takes a very special artist to understand the beauty of chickens. More precisely, Difficult Chickens. Sarah Rosedahl is the artist and self-published author of the Difficult Chickens Coloring Book and she’s giving away a copy to one of you! Come on in and meet Sarah, and enter the giveaway!
is a certified farmgirl at heart. She’s happily married to her beach bum Yankee husband of 20 years. She went from career gal to being a creative homeschooling mom for two of her biggest blessings and hasn’t looked back since. Debbie left her lifelong home in the high desert of Northern Nevada 10 years ago and washed up on the shore of America’s hometown, Plymouth, MA, where she and her family are now firmly planted. They spend part of each summer in a tiny, off–grid beach cottage named “The Sea Horse.”
“I found a piece of my farmgirl heart when I discovered MaryJanesFarm. Suddenly, everything I loved just made more sense! I enjoy unwinding at the beach, writing, gardening, and turning yard-sale furniture into ‘Painted Ladies’ I’m passionate about living a creative life and encouraging others to ‘make each day their masterpiece.’”
is a “MaryJane Farmgirl” who lives in a large metropolitan area. She is a lawyer who has worked in both criminal defense and prosecution. She has been a judge, a business woman and a stay-at-home mom. In addition to her law degree, she has a Masters of Theological Studies.
“Mustering up the courage to do the things you dream about,” she says, “is the essence of being a MaryJane Farmgirl.” Learning to live more organically and closer to nature is Rebekah’s current pursuit. She finds strength and encouragement through MaryJane’s writings, life, and products. And MaryJane’s Farmgirl Connection provides her a wealth of knowledge from true-blue farmgirls.
an old-fashioned farmgirl with a pioneer spirit, lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As a “lifelong learner” in the “Live-Free-or-Die” state, she fiercely values self-reliance, independence, freedom, and fresh mountain air. Married to her childhood sweetheart of 40+ years (a few of them “uphill climbs”), she’s had plenty of time to reinvent herself. From museum curator, restaurant owner, homeschool mom/conference speaker, to post-and-beam house builder and entrepreneur, she’s also a multi-media artist, with an obsession for off-grid living and alternative housing. Cathi owns and operates a 32-room mountain lodge. Her specialty has evolved to include “hermit hospitality” at her rustic cabin in the mountains, where she offers weekend workshops of special interest to women.
“Mountains speak to my soul, and farming is an important part of my heritage. I want to pass on my love of these things to others through my writing. Living in the mountains has its own particular challenges, but I delight in turning them into opportunities from which we can all learn and grow.”
Dori Troutman is the daughter of second generation cattle ranchers in New Mexico. She grew up working and playing on the ranch that her grandparents homesteaded in 1928. That ranch, with the old adobe home, is still in the family today. Dori and her husband always yearned for a ranch of their own. That dream came true when they retired to the beautiful green rolling hills of Tennessee. Truly a cattleman’s paradise!
Dori loves all things farmgirl and actually has known no other life but that. She loves to cook, craft, garden, and help with any and all things on their cattle farm.
describes herself as a goat charmer, chicken whisperer, bee maven, and farmers’ market baker renovating an 1864 farmhouse on an Ohio farm. With a degree in Design, Mary says small-town auctions and country road barn sales "always make my heart skip a beat thinking about what I could create or design out of what I’ve seen.”
Rooted in the countryside, she likes simple things and old ways … gardening, preserving the harvest, cooking, baking, and all things home. While you might find her selling baked goods from the farm’s milkhouse, teaching herself to play the fiddle, or sprucing up a vintage camper named Maizy, you will always find her in an apron!
Mary says, “I’m happiest with the simple country pleasures … an old farmhouse, too many animals, a crackling fire, books to read, and the sound of laughter … these make life just perfect.”
is a budding rural farmgirl living in Palmer, the agricultural seat of Alaska. Alex is a graduate student at Alaska Pacific University pursuing an M.S. in Outdoor and Environmental Education. She lives and works on the university’s 700 acre environmental education center, Spring Creek Farm. When Alex has time outside of school, she loves to rock climb, repurpose found objects, cross-country ski on the hay fields, travel, practice yoga, and cook with new-fangled ingredients.
Alex grew up near the Twin Cities and went to college in Madison, Wisconsin—both places where perfectly painted barns and rolling green farmland are just a short drive away. After college, she taught at a rural middle school in South Korea where she biked past verdant rice paddies and old women selling home-grown produce from sidewalk stoops. She was introduced to MaryJanesFarm after returning, and found in it what she’d been searching for—a group of incredible women living their lives in ways that benefit their families, their communities, and the greater environment. What an amazing group of farmgirls to be a part of!
Suburban Farmgirl Nicole Christensen calls herself a “vintage enthusiast”. Born and raised in Texas, she has lived most of her life in the picturesque New England suburbs of Connecticut, just a stone’s throw from New York State. An Advanced Master Gardener, she has gardened since childhood, in several states and across numerous planting zones. In addition, she teaches knitting classes, loves to preserve, and raises backyard chickens.
Married over thirty years to her Danish-born sweetheart, Nicole has worked in various fields, been a world-traveler, an entrepreneur and a homemaker, but considers being mom to her now-adult daughter her greatest accomplishment. Loving all things creative, Nicole considers her life’s motto to be “Bloom where you are planted”.
Cute sloggers and I bet the coloring book is pretty neat too!
Thanks Denise!
I’m loving coloring books right now! I go between three different ones, but none of them have chickens! I love the look of that book . . . the sloggers are cute too! I’ll have to check them out!
Thanks for sharing your blog and thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Hugs to you!
CJ
Thanks!
Chickens are the best. What fun it would be to have a coloring book full of them!
Thanks Carol.
Deb,
I absolutely love coloring. For me, as a relaxing activity, it’s right up there with spinning. What could be more fun than coloring chickens? Along with llamas, goats and sheep (thus the wool for spinning), we have 12 chickens including 2 roosters. Yes, at times they can be “difficult” as they have minds of their own. But don’t we all? Their entertaining antics and contribution to farm life, however, make up for whatever nusances crop up. We have one very savy chicken (Buffy) who has chosen to live away from the coop and hangs out with all the other anmals in the barn. She’s a great little layer although we have to hunt for her eggs. Just when we think we know where they will be, she finds a new place for them. You tell me who’s really running the show!
Thanks so much for all your Farmgirl posts. I do look forward to them.
I would love to win Sarah’s “Difficult Chickens” coloring book.
Warm regards,
Charlene
Thanks Charlene! I had a great hen named Buffy. My next coloring book is fiber animals…working on it now.
I love the chicken sloggers and I really love the cow sloggers (must have with the barn on them too) and I really will love the difficult chickens coloring book. Thanks loads Sara.
Thanks Bonnie!
I live that Chicken coloring book. Thanks for the giveaway.
Marilyn
Thanks Marilyn
That coloring book is adorable and the sloggers are cute. Thank you for this generous giveaway.
Joan
I would love to win the coloring book. I enjoy coloring. Thanks for the giveaway.
Marion
Love the sloggers, especially the chicken ones Would love the coloring book!!
As a child, we did not always obtain our coloring books from the store. My older brother showed me how to trace pictures with a black sheet of paper over something i wanted to copy, held up to the glass of a window and traced in.
I could not wait until i was old enough to own my own set of colored “pencils” as opposed to the box of crayons. Remembering now, how the grown-up feeling when someone presented me with my own set of coloring pencils.
And, to think of all the varieties that are offered today!
Happy de-stressing to all Farmgirls who find coloring peaceful!
Carol
I’ve been thinking about painting my own darling chickens and this is a great way to start – I love those chicken boots, but I can’t find any up here in Canada, but still looking !
I love the chicken coloring book. What a cute idea!
Oh My Gosh! I have to win. I love chickens and I am sure I will love coloring them. I wonder if my chicken boots were some from her.?? Well, even if I dont win, I will have to check her coloring book out. I feel like I would enjoy coloring chickens. 🙂 Love ya and Be Blessed. Neta
I would love a coloring book again. I see the ones at WalMart and Barnes and Nobles but haven’t bought one for myself. I bought one for my daughter for her birthday because she us a massage therapist and I felt she needed to relax between clients. I buy them for my niece and would love to color pictures of chickens like my beautiful R
Hi Deb! What a GREAT giveaway!!!! 🙂 I think I need to order this book asap. Jillian, who is seven is a great colorer and I’m thinking she would go crazy over this book! 🙂
Hugs – Dori
Cute coloring book, thanks for the giveaway. I’ve always liked to color!
We love chickens at our house! What a fun coloring book idea!
I can’t have chickens in my backyard….but, I would love a coloring book WITH chickens.
A little stress reliever for a busy week and something to do on a snow-day…soon to here in WI!!!
I looked at the pages and wow! I got so many ideas: frame them for a wall display, or run the pages to fabric and use fabric markers to create quilt blocks, etc.
I have been coloring with Prismacolor colored pencils. Sarah’s pages would look great using these pencils.
I would appreciate one.
i would love to win this book.
This is such a fun looking coloring book. I have recently taken up adult coloring books. Many adults are now coloring and enjoying these them. This is the perfect coloring book for a farmgirl. I also love her cow sloggers and would love to get me a pair of those. Thank you for doing such a fun giveaway.
I just had to retire my garden clogs as they were pretty much trashed. Think a pair of Cowabellas are right up my alley. Can’t wait to find them.
I have wanted to start coloring and just have not found a coloring book that I like. I would love to start coloring again with Sarah’s “Difficult Chicken” coloring book. Thank you, Michelle
Waiting for Sarah to start a line with pigs 🙂 I love her artwork and would love to win this for a friend that raises chickens. Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Sharon, you inspired me to create a pig design! Working on it…
The Difficult Pig coloring page is now ready and available on etsy
https://www.etsy.com/listing/267079878/difficult-pig
What cute boots! Love the farm animals and am new to coloring books which led me to your page! Would love to color these beauties!
I am totally into coloring and finally something that is right up my ally – what a fun time could be had between the pages of this lovely book. And then cows – oh my be still my heart. Thanks for sharing this with us, Deb and Sarah. God bless.
I love the chicken sloggers as I have the clogs in both colors. Love Sarah’s artwork of chickens. She does a great job on her designs.
I’ve had pet chickens, and raise farm chickens. Drawing has tugged at my heart since I was young.
I have several friends that get together just to color. Coloring is very calming. For me coloring slows down my thoughts, to where I can get more accomplished in a day. Your coloring chicken books are so beautiful. It would thrill me to win.
That Sarah Rosedahl is one impressive artist! Sure would be nice if my name is drawn. I have the PERFECT friend to share it with. Thanks for the opportunity to possibly win a copy.
The chickens in that book are just darling and I love the Sloggers boot designs. I am ordering the red chicken model garden boots. I have always loved Sloggers and now I love them even more.
I’m so into the coloring right now. It’s relaxing. I was also a lover of paper dolls.
Great blog.
Deb, I loved your article on coloring. I started coloring before it became such a fad. With my husband being in poor health, I color to relieve my stress and worry. It is my time for ME to relax. I have bought several coloring books from Amazon which are great. I also have gotten my three sisters into coloring and they love it. They enjoy coloring in the evening while watching TV. Yes, it is a wonderful way to get away from the computers and technology. For me it is cheap and fun therapy. Coloring really renews your energy level. Thank you so much for all your wonderful blogs. Peggy
This looks like a wonderful book to color! Thank you for the giveaway!
I’m on a FB group with Sarah, and I love the artwork she shares with us on a regular basis! I would love a chance at this coloring book! (Got my first coloring book for Christmas, and I love it). Thanks!!
Yay for giveaways!
Those cow sloggers are really cute. I’ll have to buy some. I love to color also.
My chickens give me lots of chuckles and smiles. Coloring the images in this book would be my way of saying thank goodness there are chickens in this world! All beautiful in their own way
My kitchen is totally decorated with chickens but no REAL ones yet. Growing up we had chickens and I’ve always loved them. Must have the chicken Sloggers and coloring book. Thanks.
Liz here! So what exactly does a difficult chicken do to earn the title of difficult chicken? Do they break into the garden and eat the red ripe tomatoes? Do they chase the children and the cats around the yard? Do they escape and head to the neighbors house running the risk of being greeted by their difficult dog? Do they refuse to lay eggs for several days at a time? If so, I own several difficult chickens and wouldn’t have them any other way!
TOO FUN! Me too! I spent a lot of time coloring when I was young. Just got an adult coloring book in the fall but broke my right wrist shortly afterwards and it’s not a happy camper with fun things like coloring right now! AND I love chickens and love the designs!
Thanks for the giveaway. Blessings to all!
I Love it!!!! 🙂
Congratulations on your recent publish and your Slogger designs. Such a wonderful thing to see people be successful.
Thanks Katrina!
I have just recently purchased my first adult coloring book, Enchanted Forest and look forward to ‘playing’ with it. My 94 year old mom started the craze in our family as her other 2 daughters bought her first adult coloring book. It looked like so much fun, I had to give it a try. I love the Chickens, A to Z !
Coloring is so fun! I’ve been working through my first book, and I’m really enjoying it. I’m thinking about organizing a coloring book group!
I Love to color and I just signed up to take a art class want to ain’t my chickens. They are my pets. Each has a different crack whentheysee me coming thanks
I love coloring and I always have coloring books and crayons around for my adult kids and the grandkids (and for me). I remember when I got my first big box of 64 crayons that had a sharpener built into the box. I thought I was rich.
I am a massage therapist and the coloring book is how we learned the muscle groups. It reinforced in our brain all the connections. A relaxing and fun way to learn. The coloring books are beautiful.
My son is dating a woman with a chicken themed kitchen. I got her some great magnets from a site MaryJane recommended called Chicken Art last December. Now she will have a birthday and I would like to give her a coloring book of Difficult Chickens. Both Laura and her daughter love coloring.
Beautiful art, from your heart to ours.
Oh how I love to color, and chickens are so cool!
So glad the Sloggers are Made in the USA!
So cute…I work at a library and we have coloring books and puzzles for students to use to distress. Really works great. I love the chicken ones. Haven’t seen those.