A couple weeks ago a naughty dog stole a bottle of olive oil off my kitchen counter, and without leaving even a tooth mark, opened the bottle and dumped it all over the living room and his dog bed. Apart from turning the living room into a slippery skating rink and sending his dog bed to the bin no harm done.
End scene,
Enter creative Mommy: "of course I can make a dog bed Mr. Jones, there are instructions in my new
sewing book"
Mr. Jones: "Are you sure you don't want to just by one for $30?"
Creative Mommy: "Oh no, this will be cheaper and look much better than anything we can buy!"
That is basically how it went, so weeks later I finished the dog bed.
Was it cheaper and easier to make it? No.
Did it give me a headache, consume my time this week, and keep me up very late trying to finish before the grandma ticker stops ticking? Yes.
Will I embark on such a foolish undertaking again? The answer, of course, is yes. It is what I do.
So here it is with a festive little lady as my dog bed model because rotten, olive oil eating dog would not hold still and stay. I got the
Amy Butler fabric from
this Etsy store. I saved about $2 a yard buying it online, paid very little for shipping, and had so much fun doing it, b/c I could take my time and concentrate, which I can't do in the fabric store when shopping with the Little.
It photographed nicely, but in real life, it is so bad! And I'm not just saying that. It is bad on so many levels, zipper, cording, loose threads, crooked seams and all, but there you go, it's for a dog, and my first attempt at sewing something other than burp cloths!
The bottom and top are different, so I can flip it depending on my mood. Yellow and green dots.
or gray with lacy flowers
*By the way, the sun came out all day Sunday.
Libby and her favorite English Grandma. We soak up 10 whole days of Grandma time. Libby is sad b/c now she'll have to practice independence for a while again and I am sad b/c I will have to get back to house wife-ing on my own again! Thanks Grandma! We miss you.
This picture is from our garden, not the fancy one with the iron gate, but we do have a rickety swing!
Ooops. I may have gotten distracted by the beautiful, sunny morning and decided to forgo nap time to try on pretty new spring outfits. Mother of the Year Award here I come. Speaking of being nominated for MOTY, I also squished her little leg between the counter and the table and gave her a nasty bruise. This combined with fashion over napping, the fact that I sometime mispell her name, and she is crying while I type should put me in the running.
A couple weeks ago a naughty dog stole a bottle of olive oil off my kitchen counter, and without leaving even a tooth mark, opened the bottle and dumped it all over the living room and his dog bed. Apart from turning the living room into a slippery skating rink and sending his dog bed to the bin no harm done.
or gray with lacy flowers
Spring was here,
I just have to relive this tale for you b/c it was so entertaining, although heart breaking for Allison. I am experiencing guilt for laughing at her expense, but I feel that in many years she'll be able to laugh at this too.
Allison placed her bag of Oreo minis in her basket and was off to riding again. 5 minutes later, she wobbled, fell over, and a big gust of wind got a hold of those cookies and they went sailing off.
and why wouldn't she, she had lost her Barbie sunglasses, and now her snack was blowing in the breeze.
Fortunatly her big sister is fast and saved the bag for her.
Her mommy can fix anything and rescued the cookies that scattered the parking lot,
and assured her that in this case the 5 minute rule applied and the scattered cookies were still safe to eat.
Everyone helped out with the recovery... look closely at Alli, she is gobbling the remaining cookies in her mouth so that there is no chance of loosing them again!
