Free Swatch Day!

Today, Spoonflower is having a free swatch day, where you can upload two of your designs and have them printed on 8×8 fabric! I designed these two dolls (and the little mini ones so I didn’t waste any fabric) and am very excited to see how they come out!

I’m thinking of entering at least one of them into the Momiji Couture Contest. Hopefully they’ll come out and be adorable.

Bench Monday – 08.17.09

This was taken at the Kickin’ for Kids charity kickball game on Saturday.  This weekend was crazy! And the past few weeks have been too. But, the promotions girl is back from her 3.5 week vacation, so hopefully work-life will return to it’s normal pace.

See you soon!

Dune Update

Dune’s surgery was successful, and I was able to pick him up after work. The vet put him in a carrying box, and when we got to the car, I opened it up so Dune could see out. I thought he would be all groggy from the medicine, but he started to poke his head out, and eventually tried to get out, so I had to close the box back up.

When we got home, he seemed pretty normal. Maybe a little sluggish, but he was roaming around the house the same, and was very eager to eat dinner. Twilight was so freaked out by him that she didn’t even try to eat first. She just wanted to check out his stitches, which kinda pissed Dune off.

Twilight was a very good big sister though, and would follow him around the house; keeping an eye on him. Seriously, wherever he was… she was there. It was hilarious.

“MOMMY! What happened to Dune?”

“Oh, well he lost his will to live, sweetie. He’ll be ok though.”

That cone didn’t last very long. Just as I was about to fall asleep, Dune decided he was done with it and started to thrash around. His movements began to affect his neck stitches, so I took the cone off. I went home over lunch today to check on him, and everything looked fine. Such a good boy!

New Norman Rockwell Prints

I won an auction on ebay for a set of 4 wooden plaques with Norman Rockwell prints on them, and they came on Friday. So on Sunday, I hung them up in the kitchen.

LOVE!  LOL, can you guess which ones are new?

PS: Update on Dune tomorrow!

The Dune Box is Complete!

As of Wednesday last week, the Dune Box only looked like this…

But by the next day it looked like this!

And on Saturday it was finished, and I was giddy!

Best part was that Dune likes it too! Sometimes he gets lonely and cries, but he is better once I sit in there with him. Yes, I sit in there with him. It’s 3 ft tall, so I’m not squished. The neighbors don’t know what to make of any of it. Some can’t even believe that he is a cat, he’s “so big.”

And I finally have my side of the garage back. No more nightmares about my car being broken into! (These dreams are crazy. I live in a very safe neighborhood, but since I had my GPS stolen from my car in the townhouse, I’m super paranoid.)

Ok, so Dune Vet Update: He has surgery tomorrow morning.  I have been giving him antibiotics every night since the vet’s appointment.  The vet thinks it might be cancer, so the tumor growth on his ear and the one on his neck (that you can’t see) are being removed.  He should be all done by noon, and I think I’m going to bring him into work with me so that when he wakes up all groggy and confused he’s not alone.  Send good thoughts his way please.

And, so that Twilight doesn’t get jealous, here are some pics of her:

Dune vs. the Vet

Dune had a vet appointment today and he was not too pleased about it. Frankly, neither was I, but his ear really needed to be looked at. More details (maybe) once I talk to John tonight.

Bench Monday!

I’ve never done one of these, and I haven’t upgraded my flicker account, so I guess I can’t really participate, but I took a Bench Monday photo. Maybe this will encourage me to upgrade?

I saw this table/chair/set last week and was like OH! I have to do a bench Monday now! You don’t have to take the picture on a Monday, do you?

Grrr

My garage door is broken. This picture doesn’t show it well, because I had already started working on it when I decided to take pictures of the whole thing, but the roller on one side came off the track. It looked easy enough to fix, so I got a wrench and took off the thing that holds on the roller, put the roller back on the track, and reattached the holder to the door.

I thought I was set! I sat in my car, fully prepared to be super proud of myself, and I pushed the garage door button to close the door so I could go to work.

The door came down crooked. Ut-oh! So I stopped it, sent it back up, and now almost ALL of the rollers on the other side of the door look like they’re going to fall off. They were fine when I made my fix. It’s scary looking.

The repair man will be here between one and three. Looks like I’m working from home today!

Painting!

The weather was crappy, and I couldn’t mow the lawn. So, I went to Walmart and picked up a cheap canvas and started painting. The sky outside was my inspiration. It’s not done yet… Tomorrow I am going to paint some kind of silhouette in black over it. I think trees would make the most sense. Thoughts?

Not too bad, considering I haven’t picked up a paint brush that wasn’t intended for walls since 2005. I think I blended the two greys pretty well.  I was going for a swirly cloud look.  I don’t think the above is the way it’s going to end up facing.

Is it Slander if it’s True?

I want my sewing machine fixed nooooooooooow. Dr. Carl, you said it would be done June 19th… it’s now July 20th. Why did the woman tell me you would do it first thing in the morning when I called just now.

I want to sew thiiiiings.