Handmade Dog Love

I just put together this spotlight on http://www.byhand.me/. I joined the other day and am really liking this community. The items are from various sites where handmade goods can be found. All for the pampered pooch or their owner.

Photo Shoot at the Dog Park

So this afternoon Patrick and I loaded Duncan, Annabelle, the camera gear, and all my newly minted dog bandanas into the truck and headed for the dog park. What we learned was that taking dog photos with the intent of capturing a product they happen to be wearing is much, much more challenging than taking a cute dog picture.

Our dogs were, oddly enough, way more interested in sniffing butts and chasing balls than they were at showing off bandanas (we had to capture them each time to put one on!) This was so much easier at home! In any event we did have a nice time. We were glad to get home and take a nap though!

Bootie Making Machine

This weekend I am going to Crafty Wonderland at the Doug Fir with Molly and Kathy. Yay, crafts! I am really hoping this is a cool thing because it only costs $35 to have your own table so I may well do this next month. We will see what Kathy thinks as she is the expert!

I bought some new fabric at the Holly Hill Quilt Shoppe in West Linn. I got 5 fat quarters for 12 something. They are really cute and one of them has cupcakes on it. Love the cupcakes! There is a collection of new Moda fabrics (Posh by Chez Moi... this is a HUGE file) that I have to try soon as well. I am just waiting for the fat quarters to be cut.

As you can see from this picture, I have been working hard on the baby booties. I have 11 for sale on etsy now. I still have not had a sale. I am not sure what is up. Other booties of similar cuteness are priced higher on etsy and selling. I am getting a lot of hits though. 129 on the jet set booties! I keep telling myself that I just need to add more stock.

Yesterday I bought Patrick a great t-shirt on etsy. A rather odd shirt about zombies. He wanted it though and it is cute. Not as cute as my sheepy though. Here is a neat pop-up card that I found. I bet Molly could make something like this.

The weather was so nice today that the dogs spent a good amount of time outside. Duncan got out of his new collar and took a walk around the neighborhood. This photo is after he had been re-leashed. Annabelle was very glad to see him.

Fishing Frenzy

We were on a fishing extravaganza all this weekend. It is pretty much all that we accomplished. The word accomplished can only be loosely used here as we did not actually catch anything despite all my efforts to check stocking reports and fishing forums online. We did do a pretty good job of trying different colors of power bait. We even threw in some eggs today as we saw a kid catching with eggs on Saturday... nothing doing though. All those fish and not even a nibble. At this point I would be happy to have seen one move in the water.

We did have a very nice weekend though. It was not raining for one thing and it was quite warm for February for another. The two lake photos you see here are from Battle Ground Lake at Battle Ground Lake State Park. We had never fished there before and found it to be quite pretty. This first picture shows some of the wildlife. There were actually 4 loons when I went to take the picture, but one flew away before I could snap the shot.

This next shot is of Patrick you can really see that the lake is quite still and pretty. There were a few rounds of screaming kids running through the woods, but not as many as there likely will be this summer.

This is the first year we sprung for Washington fishing licenses and I was very glad to find the lakes close to home were so nice. We also visited Horseshoe Lake (Woodland, WA) and Klineline Pond (Vancouver, WA) today. Patrick thinks he make take the Tanner Spring residents to Klineline Pond sometime as it is very accessible.

After Horseshoe and before Klineline 2 very hungry fisher people stopped in at The Oak Tree Restaurant in Woodland. Yum! Great comfort food. I had a meatloaf sandwich and Patrick had a chipotle bacon burger. We also took home some desert for later. (Incidently, while I was looking for the Oak Tree link I navigated around and found this funny little slide show about smelt. Patrick likes smelt so I thought I might just share.)


Yesterday we went fishing at Mt. Hood pond in Troutdale, OR. Shortly after we arrived home our new couch arrived. So here is a picture of the living room with the couch installed. I am still not sure of the position, but I am quite pleased with how the colors in the room contrast and compliment each other.

I have a few other pictures to share. I think I will just plop them on the bottom of the page. The first is a cute picture of Duncan and Annabelle. Isn't Annabelle getting big? The second is of my completed circle bag. All done! Yay!

One final note from little miss link surfer... don't swim in the Willamette.