New Year

It's almost 2009! How exciting. Jessicah from Spinning a Yarn has dubbed this year the year of the quilt. Since I have already started a quilt of my own I'm hitching a ride! I very rarely make new year's resolutions, I don't like changing my life just because the calender says so; I prefer to change when I know the change is needed.

But some things that I need to change anyway:

• Finishing all the projects I start
• Being closer to my family that lives outside my house
• Being neater (haha like that's gonna happen)
• Taking better care of ALL the animals in the house, no picking favorites

I hope everyone has a good start to the new year! Don't drink too much and be safe!

J...

...for Jam and Jar. I've finished the jam part and am on to the cap for the jar.
Here it is so far. It looks a little wonky to me for some reason. Not sure why though.
Here's the jam - I used one thread of purple and one thread of fuchsia. I think the jam is either grape or raspberry.
Here's the cap. I've done satin stitch one direction and am now weaving the thread through on the other direction. I think it's a really cool idea, but I'm not sure how it's going to work out in the end.

Puppies

I haven't been getting a lot of sewing done. I am getting very tired of J for Jam and Jar - but I have gotten past the part I was having annoyances with and now I get to go onto the fun and weird part, which I will explain when I have pictures since I think it will make more sense. So I don't have any sewing pictures, but I do have puppy pictures!
Here's Mama, we've named her Katya. She looks a lot better, she's gaining weight and her energy is back up. She will be up for adoption after she is spayed. If anyone is interested in adopting her in the Anchorage area (you must be 21 or older) please let me know.
This is the puppy we're calling Tubby, he is a really big guy - he looks like he swallowed a grapefruit. He's real sweet and loves to lick. He actually is starting to respond to Tubby now.
This is Lil' Bit, she's a real sweety and is my favorite ;) She loves to cuddle and always tries to crawl into my lap. She is also very fond of tugging on pant legs.

This is Brown puppy #4 and she was posing for pictures just like a little model!
Brown puppy #3
Brown puppy #2
Brown puppy #1
And Bagel!

We just gave them all baths today, so they're nice and clean (for now)

I hope everyone had a great holiday season and is looking forward to starting fresh in the new year!

Happy Holidays!

See you on the other side!

Christmas Spirit!

My sewing has been slow because I'm trying to get a lot of 'Christmassing' in with my family while they're all home. I've also got a purse to make for an Etsy trade that I'm doing. A handmade purse for a really lovely ornament :) I'm excited about it. I hope everyone is having a good week and getting some holiday cheer of any denomination in! Here are some great moose pictures just for fun. I just want to point out that I am not as close to the moose as the pictures would imply - I have a really good zoom on my camera. I advise anyone who finds themselves so close to a moose to run in the opposite direction, they can and have seriously injured and killed people.

This moose was in the Arts building parking lot at UAA
This moose was right outside my bedroom window eating my tree!

I scream, you scream!

We all scream for ice cream! I did most of this in Satin stitch. There's strawberry ice cream covered in hot fudge, chocolate ice cream with butterscotch, and french vanilla/cookies and cream with strawberry sauce. Of course it is all topped off with rainbow sprinkles and a maraschino cherry!

2 down!

I finished 2 squares yesterday - F for Fish and H for Hand. I really like the fish and the hand is nice and simple. Next I get to move on to I for Ice Cream, which I want to take some more time on, it's going to be a sundae that dreams are made of!
I decided not to put scales on the fish, I thought it looked lovely just the way it was! I really like the bright colors, they seem very tropical and warm :) something I could use some of up here! It's too cold!

Hand is really simple, I don't think it needs anything else. If I wanted to I could at knuckles and such. I was very impressed with how good the hand shape is - hands are hard for me to draw but I think this one looks very good :)