Life with Lady, Week 6

The teething process turns out to be over pretty quickly. She has lost about 4 of her incisors now. She still wimpers a bit and gets quite frustrated that she can not hold on to her tug toy as good as before, but is much happier now. I even managed to get a tooth! I have a tiny glass vial charm that I had saved from a few years ago, and put it in that. I know, a bit weird, but then again I still have some of my son's baby teeth and he turns 20 this year!


Lady is pretty much house trained now. She has only had a couple times where we did not get up early enough in the morning and I do not hold her to blame for that.

Over the next 4 weeks I am not going to be able to spend as much time with her as I would like, I am working 4 days a week. I am very happy for my sake about the extra day of work, but Lady is not going to be impressed with it. It is for the best in so many ways though. Plus, eventually when my husband goes back to work she will be alone for 9 hours until I return from work. By then she will be 7 - 8 months old though. So hoping things will go smoothly.

Lady and our cat Leo are getting along Very well now! I have found Leo purring and rubbing up against Lady quite often. No taking of naps together as of yet, but one never knows if they cuddle up at night. I hope to get a picture of them together someday soon.

Here are a few pictures of her playing with her 'jug' in the back yard.  As you can see, she loves it!

We got a puppy!

Our Lady Tripper

My husband and I got our Christmas gift early this year. Lady is a 16 week old Australian Shepherd / Labrador Retriever mix (also known as a Shepador).

We just got her on Monday, and already she is doing very well with the 'house breaking'. Raised on a cattle farm, she loves the outdoors and has a lot of respect for other larger animals and vehicles. Now if only our Leo, the cat, would be able to become friends with her. Since our other cat Smokie went missing a month ago it has seemed a bit lonely in the house. That is certainly not the problem now!

Isn't Lady the most adorable puppy ever?

Repurposing Toys for your dog or cat

One thing that makes me sad is when I see people throwing out stuffed plush toys. I know, we are all very careful of the toys we allow our children to play with, and once the child no longer plays with their stuffies, what are we to do with them?

One thing you can do is if it is in perfect condition, you can give them away to a child who has very little. But sometimes they are just thrown in the trash because they are missing an eye or other part, and most people do not have the time or ability to fix the toy.

This is where I decided to rescue some of the toys in my house. Rather than just tossing them, I took the ones in really good shape, and repurposed them. I washed them, removed any potential harmful bits such as ribbins, jingle bells, plastic eyes, and unknown stuffing etc. I then repaired any rips, embroidered on new eyes/noses and replaced the stuffing with new poly quilt batting. The ones that are to be used as dog toys I added a small squeaker.

Now are these not just adorable?

Plush Lion repurposed dog toy

Whale plush dog toy repurposed

Dog squeaker toy plush Penguin repurposed

I can also leave out the squeaker if your dog does not like those, or add catnip to them so that you can give them to your cat.

To see more available dog toys, please feel free to visit my studio!

Grocery shopping bag holders

Do you keep your grocery shopping bags for using later? I know I do. I also know it can be a pain to try to find places to keep them, and get so tired of them taking up space in cupboards or closets.

Years ago I had made a bunch of fabric tubes with elastic at the top and bottom, and loops at the top for storing these bags in. I had given a bunch to family and friends and they loved them! Recently I started making them again and put them up for sale in my ArtFire studio. I now have quite a few of these grocery bag holders available in a variety of sizes and prints.

They make wonderful gifts, and you can keep on in each room of your house such as your kitchen, hallway, laundry room, nursery, garage or even in your car. If you are an artisan/crafter and participate at craft shows, they are a great way to transport and store your bags in for your customers.

Here are just a few of the ones I have available in my ArtFire studio right now.

Grocery bag holders

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Unique Gifts

Handmade Organic Catnip toys and Shopping bag holders

Rather than bombard you with a posting every day with my newest listings in my Etsy shop, I have been saving them up to post once a week or so. So with that in mind, here they are!

Catnip toys:

Yellow Zombie kitty organic catnip toy

Posie the zombie kitty organic catnip toy

organic catnip pillow

organic catnip toy pillow

Grocery shopping bag holders:

funky tie dye shopping bag holder

fabric plastic bag dispenser

Gearing up for the Christmas In July Sale Event on Artfire!

Are you ready for this?  Every year people start shopping for their Christmas gifts earlier and earlier, trying to find just the "right" item. Sometimes that can be quite the challenge!

So as you go through your list of family and friends, please do not forget your cat, as they are most definately a valuable member of your family.

Keeping that in mind, I have been slowly adding a few things in my studio for this year's Christmas in July sale event on Artfire.  So far I have added some adorable 7 inch plush Christmas stocking toys, stuffed with my very own homegrown organic catnip.  (I also have some new catnip toy pillows and a cute little zombie kitten toy)

Red repurposed catnip toy Christmas stocking

Upcycled bright red with snowflakes catnip toy Christmas stocking

Green with snowflakes catnip toy Christmas stocking

Blue with snowflakes organic catnip toy Christmas stocking

Patchy, organic catnip toy Zombie kitty

organic catnip toy kicker pillow

Quilted coasters, table runners and placemats

I do love the look and feel of handmade quilted objects. Right now I am making rag quilted coasters, table runners and placemats. As time goes on, I will be adding more to my Artfire studio, http://jewelz_creatives.artfire.com/ so keep your eyes out!  You never know what I will come up with next.

lemons & limes rag quilted coasters

Country style Rag quilted fabric coasters set of 2

 

7 pc Table runner and placemat set for your summer parties

Fabric holders for plastic grocery shopping bags

So you are tired of taking up valuable space storing those pesky grocery shopping bags?  Well, here is a convenient yet decorative way of organizing them.  You can have one of these in each room of the house where you may wish to have them, such as the bathroom, laundry room, nursery, kitchen, hallway (by the dog leash) garage and even keep one in your car.

Now available in my Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/jewelzodonnell

Upcycled Black and white fabric shopping bag holder

Fabric plastic grocery bag dispenser wicked waves

Psychedelic fabric plastic bag holder

Plastic bag dispenser holder paw prints

The migration continues

Here are a few more items I have moved over to Artfire. My cats are dissappointed though, as they were hoping that I would allow them to have these LOL

Catnip toys:

Catnip toy frog

Little blue monster

plaid catnip flower toy

catnip toy bunny