Pure Love and Energy

I shaved our dog, Hazel, today.  She's 85 pounds of pure love and energy...and let me tell you what...85 pounds of anything makes for a lot of square inches. 

While Hazel was no fan of the process, she put up with me fairly well for the first half.  And then she was done.  Enter my little guy.  He, all 140 pounds of pure love and energy himself, was the perfect support for our pooch.  He let her sit on his lap during part of the trim, and when it was time to do the detail work of her legs he lay on the floor, his head on a towel, and snuggled in and spooned Hazel so she'd relax enough to get to the finish line. 

It was pure love and perfection.  And as my kid said, "You cut off about three smaller dogs' worth of hair!"

And so now Hazel is walking around the house, not quite 85 pounds of pure love and energy (hair does weigh something, right?), feeling quite nekkid and exposed, but quite happy nonetheless.  And I found out that when a super nekkid, happy dog wags their now bare tail it's pretty much like being whipped by, well, a whip.  I have a welt on my leg to prove it. 

Love my girl...and my awesome boy!!!


Here's another miniature painted canvas on an easel.  I adore these little things!  The canvas is 2x2.  I'll be selling it as a package with the easel.  Look for more of these sweet miniatures to come!

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Hoooooo's There?

The fifth owl has shown up and now the painting is complete.  And I'm pretty sure these guys have some big plans up their sleeves.


Reminds me of the wide-eyed looks I got when I opened my kid's bedroom door last night.  He and several friends were all lined up on his bed, munching on popcorn, watching a "scary" movie.  And when they say a movie is scary, it's at least ten times scarier than "The Exorcist" was for me...and that was unbelievably scary!  Last night the plan was that everyone was going home after the movie to stay at their own houses.

But...when I got up this morning and peeked in his room, all of the boys were crashed out all over the place, curled up in each of their individual blankets.  Thinking that ten times scarier translated to way too scary to walk home in the dark.

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One Layer at a Time

I'm starting on another bigger project.  Bigger for me, that is.  I usually draw and paint on paper and canvases that are 8x10 or smaller.  This guy is 12x36.  My goal is to do it in a number of layers.  So...I'm going to post photos of it one layer at a time as I'll likely get to only one layer per day what with dry time and all.  So here is layer one.

And I'm already just a tad anxious because I rather like the way this looks as is.  But cover it up I will...thankful I have this lovely crooked photo to remember it by.  I know, I know, mad photography skills.  A girl's gotta have some bragging rights, eh?

Tune in tomorrow!

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