Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Puppy Love

A few weeks ago, I devoted a whole post to my grand-dog, Phoebe.  Remember her?  While my daughter is away at school, she's my little buddy.  Most days this is what she does while I'm at the sewing machine:


But she actually does have an active social life, too.  Her BFF Magnum lives just down the road.  He's a sweetheart!  But he's also very naughty.  His Mom & Dad have an invisible fence to keep him safe while they're at work, and a doggy door in the garage so that he can come and go as he pleases.   But when he sets his mind to it, that's not enough to keep him away from his girlfriend. I think his parents are at their wits end with him, because they've tried everything they can think of to keep him home and he still breaks out occasionally.  (She must be worth the shock...)

Usually Lola the cat is the first to announce his arrival.  (She sees him as an intruder-- poor baby!  He's scared to death of her, with good reason.)  Once she starts making those awful, scary cat noises Phoebe knows he's here!
Can Phoebe come out to play???  (Isn't he just beautiful???)

Pretty please, with sugar on top???
I would love to let him come in, especially when it's cold outside-- but we've tried it a couple of times, and the cat is just NOT having it.  Fur literally flies.  And somebody always ends up crying.  (Poor Magnum!!)

Anyway, so then I let Phoebe out into the (fenced) back yard and they play together for hours!  (Or until his Dad drives by and sees his naughty boy.)  But they LOVE each other.  It is just so sweet!!!  He only sneaks out maybe once a week or so, but I can tell you that bright and early tomorrow morning, Phoebe will be sitting by the window in the dining room looking out for Magnum.  Awwwww...


Treasury Tuesday- Blue Christmas

'Blue Christmas' by LauriesGiftsBiz



Star Snowflakes Chr...
$14.95

Silver and Blue Chr...
$20.00

Blank Notecard Chri...
$5.00

Blue Christmas Orna...
$22.00

Christmas Door Wrea...
$69.97

Sparkling Snowflake
$55.00

SALE Blown Glass Or...
$60.00

Vintage Thread spoo...
$20.00

Have a Blue, Blue C...
$65.00

Christmas Decoratio...
$9.95

BLUE CHRISTMAS PENG...
$10.00

Christmas Wreath Si...
$36.00

christmas, glass sn...
$10.00

Christmas Dog Colla...
$15.00

Hand Painted Glass ...
$15.00

Stunning Steel Grey...
$110.00

Monday, October 31, 2011

FALL


Ah, the leaves are changing! The air smells soooo crisp and clean. It's such a calming time of the year!

Yeah, right!

For me, it's the frantic and harried time of year when I'm in full-on-craft-show-mode.  And it's also the beginning of the frenzied Christmas shopping period.  Throw in some planning and preparing for upcoming Holiday entertaining, and you've got a recipe for insomnia...  Thinking of all there is to do wakes me up at 4:00 in the morning most days.  While that does seem to give me a few extra hours to accomplish more each day-- I'm pooped by 8:00 every night and ready for bed, so I'm not sure how much of an advantage it really is...

Luckily for me, this is also the time of year when I actually get to try out different things product-wise.  The excitement of planning out the purses & aprons, choosing fabric and verses, and deciding what embellishments to add... stuff like that?  It revives me somehow.  Plus I love to getting (almost) immediate feedback from people in person at the craft shows.  It really helps me figure out what people like, and what doesn't work so much...  Kinda makes me wish I did shows all year round-- but not quite!

This year, I finally got around to designing some new Scripture Purses and using the pretty fabrics I bought last fall that I never found time to use.  Every one I finish seems to be my new favorite.  I have so much fun with these purses!  Here's a look at the purses in my shop (and the only Tote I have left in stock after this past weekend's show.)


'Scripture Purses and Totes by LauriesGiftsBiz' 


Scripture Purse - L...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - L...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - L...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - E...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - E...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - E...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - M...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - M...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - M...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - B...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - P...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - B...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - J...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - S...
$50.00

Scripture Purse - B...
$50.00

Scripture Tote - Fr...
$40.00

I've also got an idea for a cute little ruffled Scripture Purse that's been rolling round in my head for more than a year now, but I'm not sure I'll find time to try it out this year either.  Sigh.  My serger is sick, and so there will be no more ruffles this year unless I find time to take it to the serger-doctor and hope that it can be fixed.  (Fingers crossed on that one!)

Now, back to the sewing machine!  Those bazillion already-cut-out-aprons are not going to sew themselves!  (And I know this because they've been sitting there for several weeks now and nothing's happened, unfortunately...)

Have a great day!!!