MADE A FEW MORE & LISTING SOME IN MY SELLING BLOG

I made a few more hand painted pieces of fabric and like the way some of them turned out. None of them can be duplicated but I can use the same colors when I make more. These are not done with paint of dye but with paint pigment and when they are dry it will never wash out I think these would make some nice coastersand are definately OOAK

It amazes me how some of the colors blend and look good together

You need perfect weather to do them outside. This piece has buttons and small scissors and I think it would look good made into a pin cushion

You can really come up with some cool designs when you just wipe the brush with different colors

Someone told me they could see the image of a cross on this piece and when I looked I saw it to..can you see it?

I think my favorite colors are the greens and orange..but I use other colors too that others might like

I like the affect this one has

I can also see an image on the bottom of this one..can you see it? It amazes me also on how some of them end up with images that I did not put there.

I will be listing a lot of our practice pieces in my selling blog at a good price. Not sure which ones to list and which ones to keep and make something out of. I can even see a OOAK quilt made with these and maybe mix in some store bought fabric.

My friend buys all the supplies and then tells me what to try so I guess you could call me a worker Bee :)

But I still Love her

I was taking a walk down memory lane yesterday trying to remember all the things my pups (mostly Maggie) have done since June 12th 2009 when they cam to live in there forever home. Calli isn't to bad and she usually only gets in trouble when she is following Maggie This is the list I came up with that I can remember She has...Chewed my shoes...my eye glasses...Quilts on the bed and in her crate...blankets..dog beds ...throw rugs...accent pillows..sheets while they are on the bed..paper plates..paper napkins and paper towells..dog toys..takes the other dogs treats when they aren't looking...moles from outside..rocks...acorns..anything plastic..a whole couch..the arms on our recliners...my crafts..silk flowers..Billys shoes..ball point pens...my cell phone (but it still worked) my decorated paper mache box..I took a huge fish hook out of her mouth..Grabs the cover on the couch when Calli is on it and rips it...ate 2 meat loves I made for company..pork chops (boneless) any food that she can reach. She will also take off if she gets a chance. Someone told me that labs usually quit doing that when they turn 2 but my vet says they will always do that. This is what the pups looked like when we got them...how sweet huh? I guess Maggie didn't like this nice blanket I put in her crate

Here they are sharing a rawhide chew..Maggie no longer shares and will take things from Calli or Bianca or Annie :)

It was very very hot in AL so I thought I would be nice and got them a pool...never again because I think it drew mosquitos and that is how Maggie got heart worm

They did not like being fenced in and always figured out a way to get out no matter what kind of fence we put up

Here they are getting some of the attention that they love from their Daddy

Maggie Loves to eat and even licks out the bottom of the dog food bag

This is the only and best thing that came from living in AL..This is our vet there with maggie and Calli on their first B D...he is the best vet EVER and if it wasn't 900 miles I would be taking my dogs back to him

There are times when they are behaving but they always have to be near each other

Maggie can sleep anywhere in any position

This is a little stuffed dog that belonged to our little poodle that died a few years ago. For some reason she never tried to trash it and makes me wonder if she knew it belonged to Keoki and she is gone now

This was Maggies favorite chair and we had to leave it in storage...I wonder if she will remember it when we go get the rest of our things

This is right after Maggie had her surgery and also the shots for heartworm. She went in the guest room to take a nap and took my sock out of the clean laundry with her..not sure what that was all about

This is after I made the bed in the guest room and she fixed it the way she liked it for her nap

Every time we go to town we almost always take all 4 dogs...the back seat drops down in our dodge and all 3 dogs lay down back there...but not Maggie...she has to put her head between us and look out the windshield. We finally figured out that she loves to see cows or horses

They always liked to lay by my feet when I was on the computer but since we moved they like to lay out in T V room and watch T V on the couch or in a chair...their favorite place to lay is in my recliner

This is the paper mache box that I worked so hard to decorate and Maggie thought it would be good to chew on

These were some cute cups that I made into pin cushions

This was all my craft magazines that I had under the coffee table on the shelf...Of course I scolded them so they decided they better lay down and stay out of my way for a while

The whole Den was full of ripped magazines...they have helped me down size a lot.

Even when they lay on the floor in the same room they have to be close

I bought this crate for Maggie but Calli does not like to be alone

Maggie is about 70 pounds now and Calli is about 64 pounds and they still think they are little lap puppies

Doesn't this naughty dog just look so sweet. I Love her any how and she is a very Loyal and Loving Dog. When ever she does something naughty I just remember all the pain she went through with heart worm treatments and she is just a very special Maggie..It's like my one friend says...You have 3 dogs...and Maggie

The funny thing is that ever since we moved back to IL and in this house she is a lot better...just still likes to sneak food and eat paper :)

Maggie and Calli will be 2 years old on April 21st..we will see if it is true about them behaving much better when they are 2

SUCH A GREAT LADY

We meet some wonderful people in the funniest ways. I had a lady "Leslie" find my selling blog in a google search and she ordered a special size Dog Bed / Mat for her youngest Boy Dog named Beacon....Isn't he just the sweetest dog ever. Leslie has been a trainer and has been showing Dogs for many years and was an excellent source of information and very patient with answering all my Dog questions (you all know how much I love my Dogs) She also fosters Golden Retrievers. and she raises her dogs as naturally and chemically free as possible. Her new Boy still sleeps in his crate and I hope he will love the special bed I made for him. Dezi sleeps with her (as do my dogs) and I just sleep better when my dogs are right there by my side :). Some of the best information she gave me was about a tag that hangs on your dogs collar (or other pets or animals) and it repels fleas and ticks for 4 months. I am for sure going to be buying 4 of them since we keep finding ticks mostly on Bianca and Annie. I just can't believe what a friend she already is and I sure wish she lived closer...I love people that are posessed with loving their fur babies like I do This is a few pictures of Leslie and Dezi in a dog show / competition...I wish my dogs would just stand next to me like Dezi stands by her. She is doing a little research for me on finding a better vet near me since the one we have been going to here is not a animal lover like I expect a vet to be...Just a job for them and I can't deal with that. Thank you Leslie for coming into my life and helping me with better care for my furbabies :)

A NEW EXPERENCE AND FUN

My friend Joann came down from up North (240 miles) on Monday night and we spent all day Tuesday and Wed until about 4 P M printing fabric and trying different techniques, These are just some of the samples we made to see how different things work. We used paint pigment which is a lot more expensive that paints or dye. It will NOT come out or bleed. These are just a few of our supplies. We had such perfect weather...about 75 degrees and sun shining. Right after we put things away the wind started blowing and it started cooling off. Then when she left she hit rain all the way home and when she pulled in her driveway there was 1/2" of snow. Was that just a coincidence or do you think someone was watching over us and knew how far she drove.

We had a lot of fun trying different techniques and I still have about a dozen pieces of fabric that has to sit for 10 days and then has to be scrubbed. I will show that in another post. Below you will see just some of the things we did and they all look better in person than they do in the pictures.

we used all different kinds of tools and brushes

We even used salt and other images
I think this green one turned out pretty neat

And this one is really different

I kind of like this one too...love the way the colors blended

I keep trying to think of different things I could make with our samples

Some of them surprize you and are very different when done than what you thought they would be

This one kind of reminds me of a rainbow

What would you make with this piece?

This one was folded many times before painting..not sure if I like it a lot

I think this one is kind of unique

I guess you can tell I like the orange ones the most

I don't even remember what I did to this one but it is different

Please leave me a comment if you have time and tell me what you think and which one is your favorite if you have one.

PUPCAKES

My friend bought me a subscription to Rachael Ray magazine and I don't really care for her recipes and never have all the ingredients on hand but since it comes in the mail I look through it.
The last issue had a really good recipe for Peanut Butter / Banana cupcakes for your Furbabies ....It is very simple and humans could eat it if they want to. My Dogs LOVE them and we give them each 1/2 at a time as a treat I couldn't get a real good picture of the pups getting their pup cake...they can never hold still for more than 3 seconds (unless they are taking a nap)

Bianca and Annie Love them too but don't grab like Maggie and Calli...they have better manners

We can't go in the kitchen without them following us thinking they will get another treat :)

The recipe is very simple and they are kind of moist inside because of the bananas...Here is the recipe if anyone wants to treat their fur babies

Springtime Muffins

Makes 24...Prep 15 min...Bake 30 min

1 egg

2 tablespoons honey

2 bananas, mashed with a fork

1/4 cup peanut butter

3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon cinnamon

preheat oven to 350, In a bowl,whisk together the egg,honey,bananas. and peanut butter. Stir in 3 cups water, whisk until smooth.

In a seperate bowl, stir together the flour,baking powder and cinnamon; add to the egg mixture.

Spray two 12 cup muffin pans with cooking spray (I used the cupcake paper liners) fill each cup three-quarters full. Bake until browned, about 30 minutes.

Note says (Freeze and thaw as needed)

Hope your fur babies like them as much as mine do :)