A Spoon Full of Sugar

 The challenge on A Spoonful of Sugar is to use lace on your card. This paper is BG Boxer , and the image is another gorjuss girl.  Sentiment and card stock are SU.

 Its a horrible weekend here, (hail at the moment, and Abbie is getting nervous so maybe there is thunder on the way)  but Queens Birthday weekend usually is, winter officially starts for us now.  Poor hairies have been stuck inside  all day again. Riley and Patrick are busy teasing each other.  I've had a clean out of my craft room, cleared some old books of Gav's out...more room for STUFF!!!

 Tracy came around this morning with Bailee.   Abbie , Vinnie and Riley all showed Bailee their repertoire of tricks to get some treats. Abbie shakes a paw, Vinnie dances on his hind legs and takes a bow , and Riley spins like an idiot, left and right , over and over and over and over.....! Trace...your girls need a dog!  

Patrick

 Had the challenge of doing a SU only scrapbooking page....never done one before and had to throw it together in a hurry ( thanks Tracy!!!) . Love the papers, from the new designer paper range. Then of course had to find some photos to go on it. Pat the Cat's turn this time. Of course some of the  embellies are not SU...but nobody's perfect!

 Now I've finished my quilt I've got to crochet 20 flowers for a scrapbooking class... gee I wish I had ten thumbs sometimes, then I wouldn't get these jobs!LOL!

 Had to laugh the other night, rang Denise and she wasn't home. Next thing I know theres a knock on the door and there she is on my doorstep ( in pyjamas & dressing gown!!LOL) with a bag of cheese for me.  At least is was dark and no-one could see her...I hope!  Ta Denise, very yummy selection.

 

Quilt

Well, we've been for a walk, the rain held off for us, tho Riley still needed a towel dry, he likes to dive thru long wet grass!! His wet fringe flopped right over, I've had to trim it so he can see. 

 The quilt is finished tho it needs a final tidy up, threads & fluff etc. Very proud of it, for 11-12 hours work! I'll be avoiding pins for a while, don't know how many times I stabbed myself!  Now, just gotta keep the cat off it....he likes fluff and fabric as well as paper and plastic! Speaking of fluff, Riley might be a problem too, he likes to unstuff toys...he might try to unstuff the quilt! Guess it'll have to go where they can't get at it unsupervised!

Time for shopping

Have just been to Inglewood to help Tracy spend some money at the scrapbooking shop and yes, had to buy something or 5 for me too! May be inspired to get some of those piccies out and do something with them....or not.....!!!
 Finally got around to making my coasters with the resin stuff I got at senz. Yes they are doggie and cattie (well, you know what I mean!) as Denise said they would be.... what else... Gavin's motorbikes? Don't think so! You can't really see in the photos but there is a thick layer of resin over the top of each. I mucked up the Patrick one, got a sandfly in it while it was drying so tried to dig it out then tried to repair it....ooooops!

Day Ten

Its wet, its cool and we have a house full of stir crazy poodles (the males of course ). After 10 days we are hanging out to go back to normal.  Poor Riley is bottom of the heap, the other boys Alby & Charlie hassle him constantly. He comes to me  for a quick cuddle and relief from the constant scragging! One of those rat bags cocked his leg on Camilla the Gorilla (Riley & Vinnie's big pink cuddly girlfriend ) so she is off for a bath shortly . We are going to find this house sooooo quiet when the Poingdestre Poodles go home tomorrow. And the cat can move back in. Poor "Pat the Cat", he's missing out on snuggles and cuddles and brushing which he loves. 
 And I can get back into my craft room (poodle dormitory ) ....I'm having withdrawal symptoms and have had to stop myself sitting at the computer and buying stuff online to make up for lost time in my room!!!  Help!!!

Chaos at home

Well, kinda got lost there for a wee while, what with work, dogs, xmas etc. Got the afternoon off so thought I'd better catch up. Xmas was quiet, tho the wrapping paper from the dog prezzies was shredded from one end of the house to the other. Then Riley lost his new schmackos chew to Bruno so had to cut Vinnie's in half to share with him....silly boy should know better than to leave anything unguarded with two goldies around! Very hot this afternoon so all are lying around in the cooler parts of the house. We have seven dogs here for the week, 3 extra visiting poodles ( some of Marise's many dogs) while the family is at the beach so it gets chaotic frequently. The cat has moved out, spends his days around the front of the house where he can't be got at by 5 bouncing poodles! Normally he likes to tease Riley by smacking him from the basket or chasing him around the backyard. No doubt he'll make up for it next week.