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Showing posts with label dogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dogs. Show all posts
Snow exciting!
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| This snow can be a bit blue! |
OK, so I'm a child again when it snows - I just love it! And I know it's an inconvenience to lots of folks, and I really wish it wasn't, but it is so beautiful.
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| Not snow, a heavy frost! |
Here are some picks from our recent frosts and snows, with Lucca as usual modelling a little in most of the shots. It's hard to get a good photo of him in the snow, because he gets more excited than I do, and eats it (I don't go that far!), hence the snowy nose :-)
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| Very cold, but at least it keeps the golfers away |
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| Look how handsome I look in the frost! |
Snow exciting!
|
| This snow can be a bit blue! |
OK, so I'm a child again when it snows - I just love it! And I know it's an inconvenience to lots of folks, and I really wish it wasn't, but it is so beautiful.
|
| Not snow, a heavy frost! |
Here are some picks from our recent frosts and snows, with Lucca as usual modelling a little in most of the shots. It's hard to get a good photo of him in the snow, because he gets more excited than I do, and eats it (I don't go that far!), hence the snowy nose :-)
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| Very cold, but at least it keeps the golfers away |
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| Look how handsome I look in the frost! |
Mush...
Whaaaaaaat? Well, just wanted to share a little something that I made as a custom request. These little animal requests actually started with my Etsy friend Kristy from BeadyKeekJewelry about a year and a half ago. She asked if I could make a round tubular pendant with ears giving the sense of a cat. I did and I ended up giving them a little more shape. Here is how they turned out.
This led to more requests....which then led to the reason this post is titled, "Mush!"
My first contact with Bonnie was when she asked that I make something similiar to the cat pendants. I'm always (almost) up to a challenge and created these 3 huskies which Bonnie had made into necklaces. Sometimes it is very difficult to do a custom order due to the fact that what the buyer's vision may be stands the risk of being very different than what the artist envisions. I try to make sure that we are at least in the same neighborhood and also make it clear that we are dealing with clay, glaze and firing to 2200 degrees. Once these pieces enter the kiln, I have no more control. With experience, the artist has a somewhat better idea of how everything will turn out, but that final say is not theirs.
Here's my friend Bonnie.
Here's my friend Bonnie.
Not so surprising that she might request these...
And then this year, a new challenge came along.... She wanted ornament sets to give to her friends for Christmas. She sent me a picture of some polar bear ornaments that she had found online. I found pictures of huskys online, printed them and from there Bill carved each of these sets. I then took on the glazing and firing. I had to hang them strategically from my bead trees so that the weight would not cause the bead wire to sag. Another common worry for ceramic bead artists is the glaze running and firing the bead/pendant right onto the wire. In this case, I was careful not to apply the glaze too heavily over the holes and I used one wire to hang each one and two more wires as support. I was thrilled when I opened the kiln and saw all of these little Momma dogs with all of their matching puppies still hanging and ready to be lifted from the kiln. They went out yesterday and if she can get them open with the pounds of bubble wrap that they lay snug in....they should make her friends very happy this Christmas.
My favorites are the gray ones, Bonnie likes the black.
Etsy picks Lovely Labs
This week I'm going to give in to my love of all things Labrador-related.
As I type, my own pooch is doing his ritual wandering around the room, trying to decide if his tea has given him enough energy to play with a ball on a rope for a while, or if he's really too tired and should get settled on the sofa for the evening! When he does settle, he won't look quite the same as this beautiful brown boy photographed by sdgphoto, but it will be similar:
Earlier in the day, Lucca had a bit of a swim in the river, something he's lucky enough to do most days. He's never been in a boat - I think we'll leave that one until he's a little calmer (when will that be??!) I love this print by nativevermont - it beautifully captures the classic Labrador pose when alert and interested, I think:
Being a very sociable fellow, Lucca meets up with numerous doggie friends during the walking day. Seeing one other Labrador makes him incredibly excited - if he were to encounter this brood from thelab it would be mayhem:
But it is nearly time to get Lucca a little companion. Not sure yet what type of dog, but he's already been named 'Ted'. Maybe it will be another brown Lab and they'll look as adorable as these two from art4milkbones
Sleep has won over toys now. Lucca says goodnight!
As I type, my own pooch is doing his ritual wandering around the room, trying to decide if his tea has given him enough energy to play with a ball on a rope for a while, or if he's really too tired and should get settled on the sofa for the evening! When he does settle, he won't look quite the same as this beautiful brown boy photographed by sdgphoto, but it will be similar:
Earlier in the day, Lucca had a bit of a swim in the river, something he's lucky enough to do most days. He's never been in a boat - I think we'll leave that one until he's a little calmer (when will that be??!) I love this print by nativevermont - it beautifully captures the classic Labrador pose when alert and interested, I think:
Being a very sociable fellow, Lucca meets up with numerous doggie friends during the walking day. Seeing one other Labrador makes him incredibly excited - if he were to encounter this brood from thelab it would be mayhem:
Etsy picks Lovely Labs
This week I'm going to give in to my love of all things Labrador-related.
As I type, my own pooch is doing his ritual wandering around the room, trying to decide if his tea has given him enough energy to play with a ball on a rope for a while, or if he's really too tired and should get settled on the sofa for the evening! When he does settle, he won't look quite the same as this beautiful brown boy photographed by sdgphoto, but it will be similar:
Earlier in the day, Lucca had a bit of a swim in the river, something he's lucky enough to do most days. He's never been in a boat - I think we'll leave that one until he's a little calmer (when will that be??!) I love this print by nativevermont - it beautifully captures the classic Labrador pose when alert and interested, I think:
Being a very sociable fellow, Lucca meets up with numerous doggie friends during the walking day. Seeing one other Labrador makes him incredibly excited - if he were to encounter this brood from thelab it would be mayhem:
But it is nearly time to get Lucca a little companion. Not sure yet what type of dog, but he's already been named 'Ted'. Maybe it will be another brown Lab and they'll look as adorable as these two from art4milkbones
Sleep has won over toys now. Lucca says goodnight!
As I type, my own pooch is doing his ritual wandering around the room, trying to decide if his tea has given him enough energy to play with a ball on a rope for a while, or if he's really too tired and should get settled on the sofa for the evening! When he does settle, he won't look quite the same as this beautiful brown boy photographed by sdgphoto, but it will be similar:
Earlier in the day, Lucca had a bit of a swim in the river, something he's lucky enough to do most days. He's never been in a boat - I think we'll leave that one until he's a little calmer (when will that be??!) I love this print by nativevermont - it beautifully captures the classic Labrador pose when alert and interested, I think:
Being a very sociable fellow, Lucca meets up with numerous doggie friends during the walking day. Seeing one other Labrador makes him incredibly excited - if he were to encounter this brood from thelab it would be mayhem:
Snow
As the snow is becoming a bit of a distant memory here, thought I'd record a couple of pictures. I know it was really inconvenient and dangerous for some folk, but despite falling over and breaking my arm, I really enjoyed the way it made everything look and feel so fresh. And it reminded me of my childhood further north, and being sent home early from school and spending afternoons sledging!
For Lucca the brown labrador, it was even more exciting. Most of his activities consisted of eating snow, but here's one of him pausing to pinch (and eat) the carrot nose from Mr Snowman...
...and surveying the lake and wondering why he can't have a swim!
Snow
As the snow is becoming a bit of a distant memory here, thought I'd record a couple of pictures. I know it was really inconvenient and dangerous for some folk, but despite falling over and breaking my arm, I really enjoyed the way it made everything look and feel so fresh. And it reminded me of my childhood further north, and being sent home early from school and spending afternoons sledging!
For Lucca the brown labrador, it was even more exciting. Most of his activities consisted of eating snow, but here's one of him pausing to pinch (and eat) the carrot nose from Mr Snowman...
...and surveying the lake and wondering why he can't have a swim!
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