DoT Thanksgiving!

The girls and family wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving with many blessings! May it be a safe one for all.

As for our post, Happy DoT to all! Make sure you stop by the DoT blog to visit all the other doggies too.

Today we have some cute pics that took just a little doing to get, but I want to tell you that these girls were absolutely fantastic sports!! Though their expressions may tell you different, they really were good and got lots of treats just cause! I couldn't wait to post these as we did this Sunday and I've been chomping at the bit since...their just too cute and perfect to help start the season.

May I present "Reindeer Lady"

and "Reindeer Coco" They don't look to happy huh, lol. Coco was fine if she was near Lady and I think Lady was happy that she wasn't the only one being picked on..lol, they settled some to co-operate....then we were lucky enough to get this one...

Angel she is not, but then neither is Coco..lol I was really surprised at how long they stayed for this one, but they were well rewarded for their co-operation! Going through a time with Lady agian getting into things and acting wierd, but we are well and doing good.

Going to cut this short, finish up some little stuff and try to go stalk my DoT Ornament Swap pals blog :) She probably wonders if she has a pal...lol

Again have a Happy and safe Thanksgiving!! Don't eat too much turkey, gotta save room for pie! :)

Bookworm Award-Page 56

I was tagged by Mindy this fun award called Bookworm Award or Page 56.

Here are the rules:
Open the closest book to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment.Turn to page 56....Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following there.Then pass this lovely little award on to five other people.......

Well, glad I have a book with that many pages close to me..usually its a crochet magazine but the way I've been lately I happen to have an inspirational book called "Angel Inside" by Chris Widener near me so here it goes...
5th sentence:
He started to move over to the place where the artist was working.

2 to 5 sentences more:
Tom followed.
When they reached the workbench, the young artist picked up one of the large chisels and positioned it carefully.
Then, with one swift blow, he brought the hammer down and took off a large piece of the marble.
"What will this be when you are finished with it?" the old man asked.
"I am hoping it becomes a lion," the artist said.

Well, there you have it, now I'm suppose to tag 5 others, but really I've been so behind I couldn't tell you who already has this award or not, SO, if you would like to, please join in and let me know. It is interesting to see what is written.

DoT

Sorry I'm a bit late, forgot to take pic off camera and email it to myself. Anyways, here they are, both wanting moms set but you won't see who won, (I can't find where the pic got too), well here was the big switch..lol It started out with Coco in my seat, then you can see both...

Of course when I walked away, Coco got down and Lady made her way up..lol Silly pups!

Well, gotta run, bowling time. I'll be back tomorrow night to get things caught up..have a tag to post plus get my swap button put up.

Hope everyones day went well and hope the evening goes great!! Later.........

Almost Ready to Board!

Gosh, its been so long since I've posted regularly, except for the couple doggie post I try to get done in time, I forget where to start..lol

I'm glad to say that its almost Boarding time for the Polar Express. Guys still need to finish up the bridge yet, but all the village is done..here's the proof...just cause I know blogger won't put them side by side, I'll say that this first pic with mountain is the corner left side of fireplace..train go through the mountain and will come out onto the bridge section which isn't done yet...lol

Then we have across the fireplace, which the train will run behind..

Then we have the last corner on right side of fireplace..

My son, Rob say this corner needs more tree's..lol I laugh cause the word "tree's" is a giggling word at our place lately and if you don't tell him, I will say I'm likely to agree with him, as it definitely looks alot barer compare to the other parts. :) but Mums the word..

I'll post the last wall once they get the bridge done cause that other wall and corner is where the train gets into the elf part of Polar Express. Got to say we have alot crammed into just the two wall, but considering its a lot lower so you can see it a whole lot better, we had to downsize to just 2 walls instead of the three it use to be. I do wish we could find more elves though, but that will just be something we'll keep buying when we see them. I know Mike will be doing a video tape and I'm sure he'll put it into a U-tube type form, so if I can figure out how to put that in blogger, I'll definitely share our Polar Express! Now you see why I've been so Christmasy lately!

Now that the major part of all this is done, (my part) I might get some crocheting done. I've gotten a couple items done though. I did 2 more Market bags
This yellow one was for Nancy and this other one which we're not sure what the exact color is, so we call it mauvey. Kind of a mauvey brownish color, but it worked up pretty. I've been doing more candy cane covers and finished up another swap. Now I just have my Doggie Secret Swap which I'm excited about. My girls love mail...lol

Well I have some hot cocoa waiting on me, just thought I post a quick few pictures of what we've been up too lately.

Hope you all have a great Tuesday!!

DoT-Whos' Got Daddy's Seat Now?

Hello finally! I can't believe the hard time I've been having with blogger lately but we're here now and got the pic off the camera. Thank you for waiting!

Happy DoT to everyone! I' really excited about the DoT Ornament Swap and can't wait to see who we get to spoil!

Well we have been having some doggie testings lately. It's usually Lady on the furniture, but Coco showed she can do it too!
She was right in dad's chair as soon as he got up from it..lol
She wouldn't move to let him sit back down either, so of course Lady, (our new protector), had to come see what was going on. Its been rather funny to see the way they interact with each other lately. Coco is not afraid to show she can handle any size dog and she goes for the legs or whatever fur moves by her, usually its Lady's hair in her mouth from catching her tail as she's running by. Lady in return goes for the neck...not hard and I don't think their hurting each other, but I try and stop it as I don't want it turning into a fight between the two. So we're constantly saying , "no biting Coco".
I thought I had a pic of the two on the sofa, but remember I couldn't get up to get the camera or else they would've moved. So it just the one pic for this post. Hopefully soon we'll have more as we're almost done with the mess in the living room so our doggie pics won't have Christmas boxes all over the background..lol.
Speaking of Christmas, we have our village scene all set, now just have the tree scene to finish up. Our little elf hat candy cane lights came in, so hopefully by the end of this weekend, that will be done. I'll post pic when its finished and I'll try to figure out the video posting as Mike always records it.
Well, off to take care of a few things. Hope you al have a great weekend and I'll be back over the weekend with project pics and swap pic too.

Pictures as Promised

Boy, it sure feels good to be home and know I have a few days to just chill out! Its been a long week but, its been a productive week too in between bowling and working. I joined a Ravelry swap in my Sew Obsessed group and we had a pin cushion swap. I thought, "no problem, how hard can it be to make a pin cushion?" Well, I sure found out different, especially for not sewing since last year about this time..lol, it actually took me a while to get it to work out right or at least descent enough to send to someone I didn't know, after all sometime first impressions stick. Luckily my pal loved everything I sent and it also cheered her up a bit. Whew...so here are the pin cushions I made and one has a crocheted bottom.

Here's the overall package I sent. I really had fun with in this and also found some cute button head pins to add in last minute. We're gonna have another pincushion swap around January so that will give me some time to do the one I was hoping to do. Hopefully I'll be able to work out all the kinks.

Then their was some crocheting too. I joined in a Friendship Exchange in one of my yahoo groups. I made my pal a Neck Warmer.

I don't have pic's of the other items I sent along, but I think she really liked it as I sent a bunch of new Plastic Canvas booklets that I know I'll never get to.

The neck warmer is a Lisa Gentry pattern and was part of a Crochet-a-long. She also shared her Holiday Ornaments pattern. Couldn't decide which to make first but, then did decide on the Angel of course :) I dressed it up a bit with the beads. Think she came out pretty. Figured since I've been in the Christmas Spirit, I would start some other projects when I came across this Victorian Candy cane pattern on Ravelry.

I never thought these would be so easy to make..honest it was less then 10 minutes to make these covers. I have 3 of the Aran Gold, but only this one had the ribbon on it.

Sorry still no pics of the doggies yet, but I hope to have some for next weeks DoT post. The girls have been great with all the chaos going on, but the train stuff is almost done with shelf set up. I've been playing with the girls to keep them out of the way and of course spoiling with treats and also crocheting when I can get it in there. Speaking of which I need to get back too. I think Saturday is going to be a busy train set up day!

Hope all have a great weekend! Make it a good one!

Winter Swap at DoT

Here I am again with no doggie pic's, but I thought I would do a Thursday post as DoT is having a Winter Ornament Swap. It sounds like lots of fun so I'm all signed up. I know my girls love packages in the mail!
We've been having BIG packages coming lately with all the car parts and some smaller swaps I've just finished up and they help check out each and every one, but none have been for them. Don't fret though, they've been getting alot of treats. Gosh with all the chaos at our house and the livingroom Christmas Boxes/train diasaster, I've been making sure they have thier spoilings especially with limited area in the livingroom while the guys get the train stuff set, so the girls lay by me over near my desk while I crochet or sew. Glad to say so far the train stuff is coming along great and I've gotten some projects done too. :-) Pictures will post when I'm home long enough to get them off the camera...lol

Hope you all have a great doggie day!!