Sweet innocence

A mouthful of Luna

The neglected puppies

I haven't had much time for the poor doe eyed creaters ever since the human baby came. I feel really bad for them. Gimli has something wrong with his ear and it started bleeding. The vet thinks he has allergies but the medication he's been given so far haven't worked and so he's still suffering. It looks like he might be allergic to grass or something at the soccer field we take him too. He's a cattle dog that can't run or play without getting really itchy. My poor baby! His eye also turned red and closed for a day or two and we had to take him to the doggy ER but they couldn't do anything for him. He also ended up eating a bottle and vomiting plastic and blood. We had an x-ray done and he's ok. I guess he threw it all up. Better the way it went in than coming out his back end. We are also having one of his premolars extracted in a month. It broke in half about a year ago and we have yet to do anything about it. We are such neglectful parents! I actually didn't know you could do anything until recently when I found articles about it online. His nerve is exposed and so I'm sure he's in a lot of pain. I hope that this doesn't have anything to do with his eye and ear problem which are both on the same side as the broken tooth. Could anything else go wrong with him?





Luna is the same . . clueless. She has the brain of a styrofoam peanut.

puppies, napkins and framed art

Gimli's first laugh at 8 weeks old.


Another photo of Gimli at 8 weeks.


Cheesy cloth napkins. Only the ugliest fabric for my honey! He's a very messy eater.


Framed kitty felt art. I thought this frame went really well with the colors in the felt.

It's Gimli!!

I can never take too many pictures of him. Here he is sitting next to me this morning while I organized. I'd post more picture of Luna but she never sits still.

Finished my baby quilt

This is the second unfinished project I completed today. Yipee! Now I'm pooped. It was hard to get a decent image of the quilt in low lighting and because of it's size. This is only about 2/3rds of it but you get the idea.


Isn't he so beautiful? :)

House pillows christmas gift

I finally finished the second house pillow I had been working on. I put it off for about a month but at least I got around to finishing it. . . that's unusual for me :) These pillows are Christmas gifts for my Grandma in law. She repainted her house taupe and brick red so I made these to match. I embellished the second pillow with embroidery thread because I didn't have any rick-rack left but I was too lazy to add the plant on the side :)

Both pillows together

I'm going to try to complete all my unfinished projects for the next few weeks before moving on to anything new. It's so hard with my short attention span.

Naughty doggy alert:
Today I chewed a new 1.5 inch hole in the carpet to go with the others I've made. My mommy yelled at me and put the muzzle on me but I have no idea why. She is mean to me all the time for no reason! She says I'm clueless and that I don't know anything for a 7.5 month puppy. She calls me "pinky" or "miniature beast of burden" but I don't understand what she means.

Vegan cookies for the furry faces

I decided to experiment a little with different flavors of dog cookies. I have to make my own because most of the ones sold in the store are beefy and my dogs are vegetarians. I usually make them peanut butter cookies, but this time I thought I'd try to incorporate Gimli's favorite food. . . carrots!

I made a vegan carrot/peanut butter cookie with cinnamon and vanilla. They smelled really good. I thought the carrots would help to make them a bit more moist but they were still dry as usual. Regardless, my dogs loved them and both tried to pull cookies off the cooling rack. I only wish they could tell me if they prefer the pure peanut butter ones or these.

I also made extra cookies for all of their furry friends that put up with their hyperness. :) I think I will make these again at Christmas but make them extra special by making a peanut butter frosting. Now I have to figure out a way to make yogurt snacks for my cat.

The hardest part for them is waiting for them to cool after I take them out of the oven. They stared at me like that the whole time. . and then the cooling rack. . and then me. . and then the cooling rack. . . . I think they were trying to tell me something.

Ornament for hubby and furry faces.

An ornament for my hubby made out of wool felt. Hand embroidered and sewn by me. He'll probably think it's a bit foofey. I just hope he doesn't wish I gave him socks. :)


A rare image of the two of them side by side. They were giving me doe eyes begging for food.

Craft room so far. . . . and Luna

Look at the fuzzy wuzzy chin.


Her body is so lanky, It looks like it can hardly hold the weight of her head. She's quite the opposite of our other dog with a thick, muscular body.


This is the craft room so far. We still haven't mounted the Effektiv shelves on the wall which we plan to do next week. Two will be going over my tables and the other two on the other side of the room. I got the smaller side of the room for my crafts/sewing/comp. My hubby took the larger half for his office. He has Effektiv's along the wall and a even bigger Galant desk.


The right side of the room. The wall unit on the very right is the start of my hubby's area.


Fira drawer units from IKEA. They are a pain to put together (the nails kept bending) but fun to decorate. :)


The corner of my sewing table.

Luna's new bed

I took a break from cleaning and organizing to complete a quick project. Luna's been without a bed the entire time we've had her and I thought it would be nice to make her one. The fabric matches our bed and is the perfect size for either of our dogs. Gimli loves it just because I made it and lays on it more than her. I guess I'll have to make one especially for him!

I had to force Luna on it.


Gimli loves it!

Baby shoes and Ikea jars

My first attempt at making baby shoes. I think they came out pretty cute but the flower print may be a bit feminine.



It wouldn't be a good post without a picture of Gimli. Such a beautiful doggy.



Jars I got from IKEA to store little craft items. I wrapped ribbon around embroidery floss cardboard and secured with mini clothespins. I got rid of a ton of wasteful packaging and consolidated a basketful of ribbon to one jar. I wish I had gotten more jars now. They were much more useful than I thought and so clean looking.

Luna's new dress

I decided to take a break from making Christmas ornaments and finishing up quilts to do something quick and easy. My hubby would NEVER allow me to buy dog clothes so I went and made my own. teeheehee He's going to kill me I just know it.

Her little dress was suppose to be a coat but she didn't sit still for her measurements so it ended up being more flared than I expected. I will have to fix it with additional Velcro. She doesn't seem to even notice it on but Gimli is sooooo jealous of it. It's a reversible dress with one side being black so my hubby wouldn't be completely humiliated by it. I think it makes her look pretty. haha

Christmas is up!

We got a brand new Christmas tree today. It was sooo difficult finding a tree that wasn't pre-lit or that was pre-lit with LEDs. We must have gone to at least seven stores and looked online. We wanted one that looked realistic but had to settle on this tree. It's pre-lit with LEDs and only the outer branches are realistic looking.

My Krinkles bulldog and alligator. I just loooove Krinkles by Department 56.


The cutest shoes ever. From his expression the poor guy doesn't want to be dressed up.


I love this gator. He looks like he had to much to drink, passed out and woke up in this outfit.


More Krinkles on the mantle.


I love him.


Gimli puts his bones on the couch when I'm sitting there and waits for me to throw them.


The tree lit up in the dark.


The tree lit up in the light. There are lots of handmade ornaments on the tree but I'm still making more.


The newest ornament I'm working on using more scrap fabrics.

Scrappy pillow cases and furry friends.

Christmas pillow cases made from material out of my scrap bin. I have two baskets full of scraps and I really need to cut down on the clutter. I can't seem to throw anything away no matter how small the scrap is. :) If you look real close you can see all the dog hair.


Gimli in front of the living room love seat. I painted my wall a while back with the paint from other parts of the house. I planned on putting more pet pictures in the different sections. Gimli is still a baby in that picture. awww


Luna staring at the kitty in the window sill. To attack or not?


A rare photo of Chloe my kitty cattus. Isn't she so cute?


Another photo of Chloe. There is a cat on the other site of the window sitting in my flower pot having a conversation with her.


Just finished another pillow case from scraps. Edited at 6:38