Another dog, another day

Lily was happy to play with her frog.

I love my Fairy Dogmother job. I love the pups and kitties I get to hang out with and walk with. I'm at my last job for a bit, house sitting wise anyway. I have almost two weeks of getting to sleep in my own bed at home. Y'all have no idea how nice that will be for me. Since I got home in June I've only spent about two weeks in my own bed. Most of that being a big block of June. It's a crazy life being a dog sitter but, I kinda love it.
This weekend I had the pleasure of hanging out with the lovely Lily. She is on the up swing of some doggy vertigo (best way to describe it) and full of spunk. A wonderful pup and so lovey.


I mostly worked on my gift that has to be ready for next week. So here's a little peak. I finally started really putting him together. And really he is almost done and put together, I just have his holster to finish up. There will be pictures of him all together and polished next week. I get to give him away next Monday. I can not wait to see their face when I give him. I'm all excited about it.

I had a hell of a time with the half bones for the holster. the original pattern was for a dog toy so it was fairly big. And after changing the hook size, the stitch used, and the eventually the amount of stitches I got a pretty good product. Other then putting this little fella together, the bone pattern was about all I worked on this week. I think the time was well worth it though. I'm just glad I didn't need them any smaller or I might have switched patterns again.  
Unfortunately since I never executed the entire pattern in its original format, I don't feel comfortable rating it. I will say that it is fairly easy pattern to understand and work form the bits that I did. But it is a piece together job on the first end. I kinda like how it was working up, though it was my seriously modified version.

The unfinished bone holster. I like the idea of gun like bones.

In addition to working on this, I was also working on a project that my mom asked for help on. She has a friends birthday coming up and had a special project in mind. So I was asked to help and volunteered more of my help with a few things as well. So I went on working on a concert/band page she had in mind. It was fun and I still have some work to do on that still as well.


I'm hoping this first week home can be a calm one for the most part and I can focus on some things I need to do around the house and just get a chance to relax a little. Next week will be dog crazy since I'll be taking on a lot more while Diane (ruler of Fairy Dogmother and one of the best moms. Can't help but say that since I grew up with her daughters.) is out of town. So we'll see where the wind blows me on all the "free" time I get. I do apologize for getting this post out so late. After getting things picked up and packed up at Lily's and getting a chance to relax a bit at home yesterday, I just lost all time. Today felt a bit of the same, which is why I'm writing this and then going to bed.
I have recently realized that I have somewhat lost track of my project a week(ish) goal that I started with at the beginning of the year. My aim is to get back to it after my next event on August 2nd. I know realistically that no new projects can be started until then for inventories sake. The happiness of this is I have at least four new projects to get done up by Christmas. YAY!! So soon there will be newness to the blog and maybe I won't yammer on quite so much.  I have some fun stuff lined up too, or at least I think so (now anyway).
Next week is inventory filled and finishing up projects on a priority basis. That little pooch up there has a Priority #1 all over him. Should be like ten minutes tops once I get the chance.
Thanks for listening to the ramblings of mine. Come back next week, hopefully it will come on time!

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