More dogs

If you know anything about dachshunds, you will know that they love to burrow in blankets. Ours like afghans, because they can still see out. Ours do this every evening, year in and year out, but in the winter, on cold days, they burrow in the day, too. Grace, the red one, is less a burrower than Wiener, the black one, or Poki, the dapple. They are also very fond of our natural gas fireplace and will leave a lap when they see the fire come on.

I am working on a doll for an auction (see Cici's auction on The Fisch Tank), so will have a pic of that soon.

I'm also making six cowboy boot quilt blocks that I'm mailing to TX today. Will show pics of those later, too. AND I got 12 JoAnn's 1999 quilt blocks (BOMs) for 25 cents each at a rummage sale last week, on the SECOND day, no less. I've basted about four of them together while watching The Olympics. Pics to come.

Helmet Liners for the Troops

Our knitting group each made a helmet liner for the troops overseas. Next week we are going to take a field trip to South Bend to deliver them to the knit shop there. The yarn was donated by a yarn company; we didn't like it. It was very bumpy yarn and very hard to see what you were doing (keeping ribbing in line, etc.); the new knitters had an especially hard time; I would like to make another one in "regular" yarn. They can only be made in black, charcoal, brown, tan, or olive drab. The pattern is by Bonnie Long.

Living room, Doll is Dressed, Olympics

Well, what can I say. I was doing OK on the living room, but have backslid, so am still dealing with it. No pics--it would be TOO embarrassing!!!

Instead, I will show my Hitty with her new dress. she waited a LONG time for this dress, sitting naked on a bookshelf. Her friend still is naked; will try to fix that soon. Somehow, this Hitty has sustained an injury to the tip of her nose; must have landed on it at least once. Will fix eventually--doesn't show much.

We abandoned our usual Friday night fare of PBS for the opening of the Vancouver Olympics last night. I thought the show was wonderful! I was amazed at the effects: the spouting whales were my VERY favorite, but the flying boy was very good, too. The sound left us about 11 times during the two plus hours, but was never out very long.

LIving Room is Coming Along

On Saturday, I went through most everything and got it into piles of like stuff. Today I will move the sewing stuff upstairs, and then put all the yarn and knitting stuff in one place until we get the shelves we bought two months ago put together. My yarn and knitting stuff will go partly on the new shelf and partly in the cupboard that the shelves are now blocking. Everything is complicated around here.
DDIL asked if I was going to show Before and After Pics; I said, "no," only After, when I'm done!

Amazing model car photos

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/sets/72157604247242388/show/

Another picture of Poki. She's been with us a week now, and we are experiencing what it's like to have a younger dog, again. She is into a lot of things: my yarn, my teddy bears who sit in a child's wicker rocker, etc. I bought her a little soft elephant at a rummage sale today, and am trying to convince her that the teddy bears are MINE and the elephant is HERS.

Despite her recent broken legs, she can jump into our bathtub all by herself.

Doll has New Home

I sold one of my big Alabama Baby dolls yesterday. When they were shown at the Gallery last spring, I wasn't ready to give one of them up yet. But when someone indicated interest in this one, I decided I was ready to say goodbye and send her on to someone who really loved her. Not that I DIDN'T love her, but I have others and will make more, so I didn't NEED to keep her. So today she lives with Carol, who had a hard time making up her mind between this one and the other two.