Our New Friend

So, Brent's been obsessed with leg lamps for a while now, he thinks they are hilarious and classy, i think differently. So this year, my lovely parents got him one for his birthday/Christmas.......What can i say? She's a beauty.

My dad wants her in the front window......She will be living in the basement.

ps: This is why Brent has no say in anything to do with our house.

Christmas Festivities!

Well, seeing as how i've made no headway on any of my sewing, i thought i'd give an update on what's been consuming all my time... Christmas. I'm hosting my first big family get together for x-mas eve and i'm pretty excited/nervous/getting my house ready for human eyes. Here is our fantastic tree!

Some cute ornaments, we were going for a "classic" look with gold, red and green. love it!


This is my rotten dog looking quite festive.

This is how you know it's winter, Merlin takes over his usual spot, right on the mat in front of the sink which has a heat vent.
Either this or he's on the stove when i bake. Merry x-mas!

Sneak Peak!

We took a much needed break from painting today to do another project. I'm not going to tell you exactly what it will be but it's the first craft brent and i have made together (awww).

I hope to have it done by the end of the week as it's getting quite cold around here.

Painting (again)

Besides taking care of Merlin, we have been painting again (yay, wooo). I know i'm crazy, so we are getting rid of the white for a light neutral grey. It's very light, not grey, not beige. It makes my house look warmer, the white didn't quite fit in here, while i love the look of all white rooms, it just doesn't work in my house. Oh well.

Olive and i had a collision and i rollered her forehead (hilarity ensued as we tried to grab her before she wiped her paint face on the furniture)

Here's the difference between the white and the new color, i used a Behr paint/primer two in one paint, it's actually fun to paint when you don't have to do three coats (we only had to do one).

Poor Old Merlin

Well, my boy Merlin has been sick, consuming a large bag of canine pill pockets landed him at the vet three days in a row. I was so happy that today all the foreign material appears to have moved from his stomach into his intestines (yay!) so we got to take his catheter out and he got to lose the cone collar. He's almost back to his charming little self (he may have chewed up the new bottle of cat tonic lax)-why oh why? But we'll just ignore that little detail. I just wanted to share some pics of the little man that has been consuming my thoughts and time this week

He's been cuddling up to anything warm now that it's finally winter here (i think it's been around -20 celcius), So here he is on his favorite electric heat pack, so sleepy and warm.

He was also quite thrilled to be able to clean himself again!

Signed: The crazy cat lady in me.

OOO Baby, Baby.

Today i made a last minute quilt for Brent's friend who just had a baby girl named Hailey (awww). I bought the patterned fabric from ikea for cheap, i thought it was kinda fun and whimsical. I really think it's adorable, i'm glad to have finished another quilt finally, even if it is really tiny. I forgot to take a picture of the back (oops!) but it's just a white, pink and green argyll fleece (so cozy)

My machine was being a cry baby, i really wanted to free motion quilt a stipple pattern but for some reason, when i have my machine set up this way, it won't pick up the bobbin thread. Who knows.

Collars!

I've been feeling a little crafty lately and ever since i made Olive a Halloween Collar the gears in my little brain have been turning. They are so much more fun than collars that you buy in a store, and so much less expensive as i can sell mine for $12- $15 instead of $25. Anyways, I've been taking orders from a few friends for custom Christmas collars, these are a few i've done so far.

Here's my beautiful great dane modeling her new seasonal collar (Olive is looking fashionable in a festive gingerbread man collar).

Close up!

This new venture has me really excited! Custom dog collars for cheap, what could be better??