Recovering

Well I had an unexpected surprise...Faith had a dental cleaning done on Tues.  I had been forewarned by the vet that she would need a few extractions.  I suspected this because she had a lot of tartar as well as really bad breath.

This veterinarian clinic has always been more than fair with me; they have often given free and lifesaving advice to me on the phone in the past.  I do trust them completely to deal honestly with me.  They are worth traveling over 20 miles for, even though there are other clinics within ten miles.

Imagine my surprise when I got the phone call, after the cleaning but before any extractions----Faith needed SEVENTEEN teeth pulled.

I was a bit gobsmacked. Would that leave her with any teeth?  The vet assured me that dogs have over 40 teeth, and tho Faith had already had some teeth pulled before I became her owner she would still have some left.  One of the teeth was fractured and several were so loose they could easily be pulled with fingers.  (Gotta love those purebred tiny breeds.)

So here is my Pretty recovering from her dental surgery.  I asked the vet if she had been miserable prior to the extractions.  We determined that it would be near impossible for her NOT to be.  That does explain why she didn't want to eat much.
She is on the mend and has decided she rather likes me. 

Loopy and cuddly the night of the extractions. She did moan a fair bit even though she was heavily medicated.  She had developed a cyst between two teeth. (One of her pre-adult molars never broke the skin and her body created the cyst to try to expel it.  So she lost two teeth over that.)

 

The next day she slept most of the day, on her back. What a goober-dog.

 

She made me laugh when I looked over and saw that she had wormed her feet behind one of the pillows on the daybed----using it sort of like a featherbed.

 

Getting shaggy in the coat

 

Pretty chipper today though she doesn't want to drink. Pad training is going okay (she was used to a doggy door) but she doesn't go much----doesn't follow any sort of routine.  I guess routine is my job!

 

 

I found several YouTube tutorials on dog slings.  This one is ingenious; very simple to make, takes two yards of fabric and about 30 mins. from start to finish. Faith LOVES being toted around in it.  I get tons of comments, most of them favorable.  I also get snorts from people but I don't mind cuz the dog is happy.  





Little things revisited

 I found these two mice the other day in a soaping supplies drawer. (Go figure.)
They were a lot of fun to make.
Faith has a larger version that she treats like a puppy----or cat, as she tends to throw it in the air and then grabs it and runs and hides it.  Poor mousey.

 

They are about 2.5" tall and are made of sock wool.





New Member

There's a new little lady at my home.  She is a four-year-old retired breeding Pomeranian.  She weighs 6 lbs. and had three litters, two delivered by C-section.  After that time her breeder had her spayed and waited for the right home to come along.
That home is me!

She came with the name Faith.  Her AKC papers show her full name as "Leap of Faith."  After my past year I found it fitting to keep her name.  She answers to it very well.  She is quite mellow, very socialized, and doesn't bark much----at least yet.  She does the "Pom mumble" which is hysterical to hear. It's as if she is arguing with herself.

She is quite the cuddle-bug which suits me to a tee.  The vet has given her an all-clear.  She is getting used to a quiet home after being amidst many Pomeranians at her breeder's.  She pulled a fast one at the vet-----she favored one back leg and he decided to manipulate her leg to see if her patella was in place.
After which she lifted the other leg.....and the front two as well. We all had a good laugh over that one.  She is a sweet diva as well as a trickster.  She helps keep me mellow for which I am grateful.
Enough talking---now for the pictures...

Queen of the daybed

 

Do I have to travel in this?

 

You could get that camera out of my face and I wouldn't mind...

 

Finally crashed, first night.  She loves this position and if I stroke her chest she will be asleep by the third stroke---honest.

 

 Another "tummy-cuddle" photo

 

 



She learned the steps quickly with six little treats of cheese.

Now she is the step-diva.

She was acting a bit blue one evening.

 

Faith, the breeder, and me-----for size comparison.

Such a personality for such a little dog.

 

 

She has a teddybear face.....

 

Or, at times looks like a cat.  Ahem.

 

Oddly enough, if the temp. is 70, she will start to shiver.

I got this fleece sweater at the festival last weekend.

 

Frisky, ready to play.

 

Playing's done---good night.

 



Miscellaneous----clearing out the camera

Here are some pics I wanted to clean out of my camera....



My niece Michele sent me this on my birthday; she wrote this in the snow outside her cabin in Big Bear.  I love the lighting.

 

I made and laminated this sign to wear into surgery.  Hey, ya gotta have a good sense of humor during rough times.

 

  

I've been making these for the Center for Cancer Care.  They have been placed in glass or crystal bowls (each set consisting of a small plastic Ziploc jewelry bag, a business card, and gold star) and have been received well by patients, caregivers, friends, and family.  I've done about 750 so far.

 

 

We have a plethora of wild bunnies around the place.  I love looking out at any given time of day and most likely seeing one.

Update on weaved scarves

Note the addition of completed scarves in the previous post.  As I make them I go back and add them in to the post.  My favorite is the Tropical Resort.  Definitely my colors!

Center for Cancer Care and weaving

A bit of disclosure here....I have met some of the most incredible medical staff  at the local Center for Cancer Care.  My journey has been made easier by the fact that the Center is within 30 miles of me.

JoAnn's had a great deal on chenille yarn...who knew one could weave a scarf for $3?

I am getting some Christmas-gift weaving done...

100% merino wool

"Doctor's House Call"

This is for the oncology surgeon who took excellent care of me with his DaVinci procedure.

 

 

100% merino wool

"Physician's Assistant"

This is finished, but not bathed/conditioned yet.  It is for the surgeon's physician's assistant (PA) who just happens to be his wife.  She has done all follow-up care and is a stellar woman.

 

Physician's Assistant, completed.  Soft as flannel-----mmmmmmmm.

 

 

This is made of acrylic chenille (boucle)

"Moonlit Night"

This is for the secretary.  I am trying to show here how the fringe gets twisted into a ply-cord.  If I didn't do this the chenille would completely unravel.

 

Moonlit Night, completed

 

 

Acrylic chenille

"Mossy Brook"

This is for the financial advisor.  She is much more than someone who helps you get assistance.  She chases down all sorts of paperwork and has the most calming effect in her dealings with me.

 

Mossy Brook, completed

 

 

 

Here are some more yarn options:

 

Acrylic chenille

"Jelly Jammin'"

The color isn't showing true here....think of grape jelly on white bread.  This is a true PURPLE in every sense of the word.  Darker than it shows here.

 

Acrylic chenille (boucle)

Jelly Jammin', completed

 



 

Acrylic chenille (boucle)

"Tropical Resort"

 

Tropical Resort, completed

 

Acrylic chenille (boucle)

"Artist's Palette"

 

Artist's Palette, completed

This is for the "scheduler", who handles my appointments.  What a diverse woman.  But then, all at the cancer center go above and beyond, so it is no surprise.

 



 

"Moonlit Night" skein

 

 

 "Mossy Brook"

 

Long time no see

My, it has been a long time since I've posted. 

I've finally been able to start creating again.  I am a snob; I almost wrote "crafting" but that conjures up images in my head of glue, paper, and other oddments.  Meh.

I hate being a snob but there it is.

Here is a little view of what I've been doing.  Keep in mind that most of these items were made before the end of May.  I've only done the kitchen towels, the teething toy, the scarf, and the wedding sampler from May through August....

I penciled an old photo of Harriet Tubman then embroidered it.  Lolita

has the selling rights to this pattern. 

One of the ladies in one of my doll clubs wanted "table favors" for a doll convention she was attending.  Voila!  It's one of her dolls in the photo on the label.

 

Years back I made a Civil War "hospital quilt" reproduction. (Well of course it was a reproduction; the Civil War has been over for 150 years. Ahem.)

The quilts were stamped with logos like this one so that it would be apparent that the quilt was taken from the hospital if ever one ended up in someone's home (or so I've read).  I designed this image, along with three others, to be penciled on to the fabric and then traced over with MicroPens.  Lolita has the selling rights to this grouping of logos.

 

New packaging for a new batch of plantation dolls, for Lolita's shop.

 

What a lot of work; what pleasure to see them all lined up!

I've told countless people that I should have been born an assembly line.

 

I get blank stares.

 

I went online and looked up plantation records. I put real names, age when possible, and locales (but not the name of the plantation owners) on the packaging to drive home that these dolls represent real people in history.

 

Slaves were not only sold (often to pay toward outstanding debts) they were also given as wedding gifts.  I can't imagine ripping a family apart all for the sake of giving a plantation owner's offspring one (or more) as wedding gifts.

 

 

Lolita has selling rights for the dolls.

 

 

A local Amish man made this quilt frame for me, to my measurements.  It is 55" wide.  Hospital quilts were 4 feet by 8 feet to accommodate hospital cots.

Thanks, John!  You do such lovely work!!

 

My Sarah Cole Resin Hitty that I painted is named Seraphina.  She sits at my dining table windowsill.  Every day I see her and she brings a smile to my face.

 

 

Flannel "ears" on a teething ring.  Baby grabs the ears and chomps on the ring.

 

Brian is my nephew-in-law.  He loves to grill.  They live in Orange County, CA, and have a cabin in Big Bear.  (His wife is the baby in the photo with my sister.)

For his birthday I embroidered these towels from Hobby Lobby.  A very good deal if you use the 40% off coupon.  Embroidery is the back stitch, over penciled-on letters.

(I love pencils.)

This Norwegian sampler was originally meant to be needlepointed.  In the 1970s I needlepointed a few of them.  This time I did it in cross stitch for Brian and Michele, since we (Michele) are descendants of Scandinavian background (Sweden and Norway).  I love it; I'd forgotten how lovely it looks.  I want to make one for myself. You never know, people marry at all ages. HA!

I saw painted clothespins online...I painted these for Michele's classroom as

"printing spacers" for her students who tend to

writealltheirwordswithnoseparatingspaces.

They were fun to do but tiresome as staining them first created a need for several layers of acrylic paint. Boring!