Lazy Dog Days

Our place has really gone to the dogs.  In this post on March 30th, I talked about our foster dog Nigel.  Since then, he had been with us for five weeks.  The maximum time we are allowed to foster according to the rules of the rescue place we work with is six weeks.  Then we must return the dog to the rescue farm if it does not get adopted.  All our other fosters were never with us for more than two weeks because they always found their forever homes within that time period.  Not so with Nigel.

Of course, the longer I had him, the more attached I grew to him.  After the third week, someone did show interest in him.  When I got the call to bring him in for an appointment with a potential adopter, I got a very deep knot in my stomach.  I realized I didn't want to give him up. Well the appointment never materialized and I was able to "relax" for awhile.

I kept dropping hints to hubby that we should adopt Nigel too but he kept saying the two dogs we already have are enough. When it came down to the wire, I poured my heart out to hubby about how awful I felt having to give up Nigel and he finally agreed.  He said he could see this coming and kept saying no, hoping I would change my mind.  Sure, he would have been happy with two dogs, but he likes Nigel too so what's one more?

So I officially signed the adoption papers on May 15th.  The strange thing is that after I signed the papers, Nigel knew.  He had an attitude change.  Perhaps he picked up on my happy vibe, but he just knew.  It's as if he said "I can drop the act now.  I'm not a visitor here anymore.  This is my home now."  Too funny.

Below are some pictures I took today of my lazy mutts.  :)

 Nigel - Newest family member (American Eskimo)

 Della (Terrier Mix)

 Alba (Lemon & White Beagle)

Nigel with Alba in background

New Cotton Fabric

I just ordered the above beautiful piece of cotton from this Etsy seller.  I usually try to work with recycled fabrics but this I could not resist.  Gorgeous colours, don't you think?

ATC - Purple Cosmic Rain (Available for Trade)

ATCs are fun to make and trade. This one (Purple Cosmic Rain) is made from printed cottons, inks, sequins, seed beads and embroidery threads, backed by felt.

If anyone is interested in trading for another fabric ATC, please Email me at mandolin50 at hotmail dot com.

PLEASE NOTE that I only trade fabric ATCs.

A New Cat

A new cat from an old favourite fabric. It's an old curtain with a huge and varied print that contains every pastel shade of colour under the sun. I've used this fabric a number of times before.

Continued Happy Easter

The Easter Bunny imposter is now stitched and finished. :)

Happy Easter

Not quite an Easter Bunny. Cat with bunny ears and tail. :)


























Fall foliage from last year but for me it has a spring feel to it.

ATC - Blue Jungle

Blue Jungle is an ATC made for a trade. I have five works in progress at the moment. I hope to finish at least a couple as I am joining a bunch of gals in the neighbourhood tomorrow for an artsy day. They are all mosaicists and I will be the only stitcher. :)

























This little guy Nigel below is our current foster dog. You wouldn't know he's an American Eskimo dog because he's been shaved down. His owner didn't take very good care of him. When he arrived at the rescue shelter, his fur was all matted and he didn't smell too good.

He has undergone two separate surgeries with a week - one to have him neutered and the second time to yank out all his teeth. There really is no excuse for the vet not to have done both procedures at the same time, but I guess this way there's more money in his pocket. Nigel is close to 10 years old and faced greater risk from anasthesia. Whether or not Nigel pulled through the surgeries wouldn't have made any difference to the vet because either way, he gets paid.

I was happy to find out that Nigel is fine and we get to pick him up today.