Would you look at these cute little critters…
They are about to go on my wall just as soon as I find the perfect frames. I found this photo at Stacey Huston’s photography site, Stacey Huston’s Photos, and thought it was the perfect picture for my dining room wall.
Because … well … we decorate with critters around here.
What was nice about working with Stacey is that the original picture is the one on the left. I asked Stacey if I could get the same picture; one facing left and one facing right. And with a click of a flip, I was able to get two adorable critter pictures.
And I’d like to mention that I took the above picture myself. (Note: the flash shine there in the center.) Yes, I need a photography class. You will never see my pictures on the cover of any outdoor magazine like Staceys.
On to the giveaway:
Stacey is offering one of my readers the chance to win one of these beautiful photos…
This one she called Willows
And this one she didn’t have a name on it. Darn her. If I knew my critters, I could tell you these are bull elks or cow elks or horse elks. But I don’t know my critters. For the love of a critter identification class, I’m not sure those are even elk.
If you’d prefer one of the chipmunk pictures instead, we can make that happen.
To enter answer the following question:
Do you have a critter room in your house?
Maybe it’s your basement, or your gun room, or your library, or critters have taken over your house in all rooms, like mine. For the love of bathroom privacy.
- The winner will be selected randomly and the contest will run from today, December 7, 2009 – Thursday, December 10, 2009. The winner will be announced on Friday, December 11, 2009. An e-mail notification will be sent and the winner must claim their prize within 48 hours or a new winner will be selected. US residents only please.
If you’d like to see more of Stacey’s photography, you can visit at – A Focus in the Wild – Photo a day project. Or Stacey Huston’s Photos page.
And if you’re looking for a unique gift for the outdoors person on your gift list, Stacey’s wildlife photography is absolutely beautiful!
Thanks Stacey and good luck all!
This post is sponsored by Stacey Huston.
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Beautiful pictures! My husbands territory is the basement where all his critters are. lol
Jody, my whole house is one big critter room. I know you feel my pain.
Had to leave a comment that says “No, mom… you can’t enter this time ! ” lol
Ahhh well I have to confess, when my husband bought our house (he then just my boyfriend) he let me pick out the paint colors in all the rooms, let me pick the stain for the refinished floors and the new flooring for the kitchen… with one string attached… that he could hang deer mounts in the living room. This year I shot my first buck, and I’m insisting that it be hung right above the TV
My whole house is a critter room! We love it though! I just need a few more in flight and a gorgeous buck…. Gotta get to working on it.
So far we’ve got a buck and my big bear in the living room, a rack from one of my Grandpa’s bucks that’s sort of in the kitchen, my first little buck in a hallway, and my smaller bear over our bed.
But we have big plans – there’s a nice elk, an even nicer buck, and a grey fox at the taxidermist, which will all go in the living room. I’d like to put a bobcat in there too. My son should harvest something one of these days, and that will go in his room. And I keep eyeing the nice open space in the dining room – surely I can find something to go there!
So eventually, everywhere but the laundry room will be festooned with taxidermy.
Family room and man room are the only critter rooms in the house. Now if my hunter wants to go house hunting for a bigger house I would probably let him expand his collection. Maybe.
Well, the dead critter room is the living room (at the moment)… The living critter rooms are whereever the “puppy” (i.e., old dog) and cat want to be LOL. Beautiful photos, BTW!
Our “critter room” is our living room! We love to display our trophies!
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We have critters galore all over our house. We have 8 big whitetail deer mounts, several whitetail skull mounts, a fox squirrel, a bobcat, a pretty red fox, a gorgeous beaver, and 3 bass. I don’t hunt at all, but while attending a deer hunting expo a few years ago, I saw a jackelope mounted, and I just had to have it!! I love it, and proudly hang it right there with all of the other animals. Our house is primarily decorated in moose, bear, and deer accessories. Christmas tree is all about nature/animals. The squirrel pics are adorable!! Thanks!
My house is one big great room with the bedroom off of that. I refuse to have a critter hanging on the bedroom wall because if I woke up and saw it looking at me I’d probably shoot it and that would leave a nasty hole in the wall. In the great room we have 2 pheasants hanging upside down to look like you just came in off the field and hung them on the wall. That’s all unless you count the “jack-a-lope” hanging in the loft!!
No. But my boyfriend is building a house will walls at the right height for mounting deer. And for Christmas, he wants a toilet paper roll made of antlers. http://www.amazon.com/Antler-Toilet-Paper-Holder-bathroom/dp/B00138ZWR4
Deal breaker?
We don’t have a critter room but the cat and dog think every room is theirs.
Our “critter” room is in the den. My husband has our wood stove in there, his rollback desk with all of his fly tying material, and all sorts of animal pictures and trophies on the wall.
gilland@etsu.edu
I don’t have a critter room, yet. However, I did find my first horn this year! I do hunt, but have never shot anything worthy of being mounted. When I do, you can bet it will go on the walls. My dad shot 2 very nice bucks that he had mounted. He passed away two years ago and I would like to hang them on my walls. However, that hasn’t happened yet…
I want to turn my wife’s craft room into a critter room…ha! does this enter me now? …or disqualify me?
When we bought the house 8years ago my wife gave me the back den and 1 of the 4 bedrooms.I demmoed the ceiling in den to get enogh hight for my black bear rug and my 3 mule deer shoulder mounts and my 5 whitetail shoulder mounts and my Duck & goose collection of full body mounts my stuffed stealhead 2 turkeys oh and a shoulder mount black bear,the bed room has my European mount bull Elk my shed antler collection a Kuddu euro mount and several deer pelts and some placks with my Hog tusks those are the only 2 rooms in the house that Im allowed to put my stuff.Critters I got em,rooms I got em,a Photo of Stacey Huston I would love to have em all over my house my wife would even allow in rest of house. Merry Christmas from rickybuck
My critter room is our office in the house, which is separate from the “Hunt Cave”! This allows me to focus, a little better!
Thanks for offering this to us!
Rudy
Our living room is our critter room – so far we’ve got 6 in here… oh and two in the freezer that Hubby would love to have in here too.
The dinning room area is our critter room which is over the open bar … my deer on the left and my wife, Marian’s deer on the right with several other critters hanging out.
My house belongs to the critters and I am fortunate that they let me stay indoors on these cold nights. The 4 dogs do seem to think they own the place.
Each time I bought a house and moved I had to measure the ceiling height to ensure the elk mount would fit. Then I had to ensure the room design would accomodate the pictures. Mother says my house’s look like cabins. Sweet, that what I like.
All of my property is my critter room: lots in the house; some in the garage; a chainsaw carving beside the garage; stamped metal on the shed; there’s even some in my office and I don’t own that property.
I bet most everyone has a “critter” room in their house. Thanks to Zoe, we have critters in most every room, dead & alive! The stuffed ones are my favorites as well as hers. But I think I would have to say that our master bathroom is where all the really SMELLY critters are, cause I swear after Hubby comes outta there, it smells like DEAD critters!
Way back when…before I began to hunt myself we had a critter room. At one time it had on the walls not less than 3 full bear rugs, two antelope, two mule deer and two whitetail, a big rainbow trout, a skull of a Rocky Mountain Ewe, and two other mule deer antlers. My first “trophy” was a sweet little Black Buck and I deemed him pretty enough to be in our living room. That was the end of the critter room, now there is not a room in our house without an animal – except the bathrooms, can you image having extra eyes staring at you while you #?!*&
Suzanne
Over the years, I’ve had houses, hunting cabins, and offices full of critters, and it’s been fun to move them to different places and groupings. When I moved into a new office complex last year, I decided to consolidate everything there. My favorite space is the long wall to the right of my desk, where about a dozen whitetail deer hang. Not a day passes when I don’t gaze at a deer and recall the fond memories of how it got there — where I was hunting, who else was in camp, the distance of the shot, the rifle I used, how I felt taking the shot and afterwards, and the insignificant but memorable things that happen in every hunting camp. It makes my day.
Thanks for choosing me as the winner! I sent you an email…now to find the perfect spot for the photo…in the man room.