Yes....I really do love my dogs this much!

I bought this fabric as a remnant!  Can you imagine my excitement....these are my dogs!  And they totally sit just like this!  So I bought it...actually a few years ago.  I have been chastised by my non dog lover friends for my purchase..."you can only make a dog bed out of this!" or "what can you even do with it?"  But alas...the dog lover/crafter in me rises to the occasion!  It's decorator quality fabric for pete's sake....not a dog bed!  So....I am making a cushion for my fireside sitting area to keep our butts warmer while sitting on the flagstone next to the fire and perhaps a few pillows to match.   Cutting tonight...pix to follow shortly.  However, This fabric not only had adorable Cavalier King Charles Spaniels on it, but has cute little Pugs and Westies too.  Can't toss their sweet little faces in the trash!  Sooo....to the thinking chair!   I've got some great ideas.  I'll be posting some cute dog stuff on my ESTY shop soon....stay tuned!



Fabulous!

 


To further my reign of the Queen of Dog-Nut-Dom (is that a word?)...a friend of mine gave me a 911Home Goods emergency call with these great canvas's of "my dogs".   I mean....what are the odds!?   I said "O my Gosh!  Grab Them!  Presented them to my husband who is the King of Dog-Nut-Dom for Christmas and....we live happily ever after!  : ) 

(Really...they are great dogs....we aren't crazy!)

And here is the real thing...they are so lovable!  



Dog babies but...still so lovable!

Let Them Eat Cake!

I love making and decorating cake.  This one though not decorated was quite tasty.  I got the recipe from one of my favorite books "The Cake Doctor".  If your not familiar, it includes doctored up recipes for traditional store bought cake mixes.  I love it...so easy peasy!  When I don't need decorating, this is my go to book for yummy cakes.  Most always include added pudding mix.  Pudding makes a super moist cake for sure!  This particular cake was to celebrate my mothers birthday.  KAHLU'A Cake!  You can never go wrong combining a coffee flavor with chocolate.  Yummo!  Made it yesterday....Gone today!  Happy Birthday Mom!  Love you!

Sew Many Snowmen!

I was looking for a "service" type project to do with my 9 year old daughters class and found these easy snowmen hats in Family Fun Magazine.  I have a notebook that I have compiled over many years of my favorite project for kids from this magazine and pulled this out of the archives.  Jennies teacher was very excited about it and graciously agreed to extend our project time over the course of two days.  She and some other moms help me cut them out, I sewed and the kids did the decorating.  We made a total of 65 hats...one to keep, one to give away and of course 3 for the principal's kids.    I had our church's Girls Club make scarves to match, we packaged them up real pretty and delivered them to a local shelter.  It was a complete success!  The kids made a fantastic hat for themselves while experiencing the joy of giving to others.