Showing posts with label dogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dogs. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Christmas was simple this year. Stayed at home with the dogs, birds and fish.
Here's some pics and a short video of lots of great gifts.
This was our Christmas card this year:

Here's the video:



The weekend before we went to Jennifer's and Giupetto and Gianna met their new puppy Rocky:



 



 
 Gianna watches from the deck:

and their chickens:

 
Have a Happy and Healthy New Year 2015 !!
 

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Christmas 2012

Chirstmas 2012 was spent in New York and Pennsylvania this year.

First, of course, we had to have our annual photo shoot and selected our favorites - they are at the end:



My PetsJubilee family on etsy are filled with wonderful people many of whom exchanged gifts, including our secret santa:



I would say the Christmas fesitivities started on Christmas Eve at work, because I took the dogs to work that day, all dressed in their Christmas sweaters and jingle bell collars.
I am sure Giupetto and Gianna had lots of fun. They visited the other offices, and they hung out on my chair and on my desk.
We brought in pizza for lunch in the conference room, and they made friends with my boss, who fed them some pizza, carefully blowing on each piece to make sure it was cool enough for the dogs to eat.




Christmas eve after work we went out to dinner with the family and then went back to John's son's house, where we exchanged gifts. Included in these following pictures is a blanket my DIL Joy had made for us with some great pictures, including pics of Giupetto and Gianna with thier kids. I just love it. I love all of my gifts.





I hope you have enjoyed my collection of Christmas photos.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
May the peace, love and joy of the season stay with you throughout 2013.



Sunday, November 25, 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

We went to John's daughter Jennifer's home for Thanksgiving.
This is the wonderful house they moved into recently.
Just such a wonderful place to be. I love the house too.

We took the 2 dogs and stayed over. I think we all had a really great time.

In the past, their dog Lexie and my 2 dogs didn't get along that well, but everyone talked me into bringing them, and they were all right.
I think all 3 dogs have calmed down and everything went well.

Of course they all teased me the whole time about how terrible the dogs were getting along, as I was the only one worried. LOL

Some of the pics in the video were taken by the kids. They love cameras too.

At the end of the short video is a movie clip of Nicholas dancing - it is very cute.
Enjoy.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

We Got Prezzies in the Mail

I am on a pet lovers and artisan team. This team has become a big part of my life. I love these people on the team, and have made some real friends, some good friends, and I hope some long term friends. Many do not understand on-line friends, as if they are not real. How you can get close to someone you have never met, or that live clear across the country, or even in another country? But it is real, and true friendships do occur.
I hope someday to meet some of the people on my team. But in the meantime it feels good to chat with them, discuss our craft and our sales, share stories with them, pray with them, even cry with them.
Well the other day I received some prezzies (as the people on the team call them) and would like to share them with you, and the shops they came from:

Years ago I met Alice, from www.MakingStuffWithLove.etsy.com. She makes needles felted dogs. These are figurine replicas of your dogs. I had to have her make my 2, Giupetto and Gianna, and they came out adorable.
A while later she found the same team I am on, and our friendshp was rekindled.
Recently I put the needle felted Giupetto and Gianna into a shadow box, that I will make into a little room, and Alice just sent me this adorable rubber tree, floor plant to put in their room.





Then she sent me this great bird mobile. The head bops up and down. It is made of wood.
John and I both love it, and we put it under the gazebo.


Then I met another great lady, who recently joined the team, and has become a favorite to many. Her name is Sue Ann. She makes figurines out of clay, and her artistry is just terrific. Her shop name is www.SamsFurKids.etsy.com.
I asked her to make me figurines of Giupetto and Gianna and attach them to one of my favorite bowls, which you will see at the end.
The other day her little dog Baxter sent Gianna and Giupetto some little gifts. They came in these pretty sparkly little bags. (Gianna and her dog Baxter have a long distance budding romance going on. LOL)
Look at the adorable little charm for Gianna - a little lock and key.


Giupetto checks out the package. What is it?

It is 2 little figurines!! One looks just like Baxter, a Boston Terrier, for Gianna. He has a little red heart on his chest.
The other is for Giupetto and is an adorable frog! How cute!! 


First I put them by the shadow box. But I think they look really cute by the great bowl Sue Ann made us.





Thank you both so much for the wonderful gifts, and for being such good friends.

Please visit these shops - for a replica in either yarn or clay of your pet:
www.MakingStuffWithLove.etsy.com
www.SamsFurKids.etsy.com




Sunday, March 4, 2012

Giupetto and Ganna get new hats

We got new sunvisor hats and bandanas in the mail. Mommy's team member Tammy made them. She has a store in the computer called HappyDapperDogs.etsy.com

Mommy took some pictures of us today, even though she says they are for walking around town and at the beach, and in the car. She lets us put our heads out the car window when the car is going real slow, and people point and smile and wave at us.

Here is our short little slide show:


Monday, February 6, 2012

SUPER BOWL 2012 - Giupetto and Gianna enjoyed the game

Did your pet watch the super bowl game?
Well, my two did.
Here's a very short video. Hope you enjoy.
(Note the captions at the top of some of the photos)



And the Giants win!!! Yay!!!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

SNOW IN PA - JAN 21,2012

SO PRETTY - I Just love a new snow.






Hope you enjoy the slide show and movie.






Saturday, December 31, 2011

Christmas 2011 videos

One movie - collection of the videos taken during the Christmas vacation - 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas 2011

The following videos are viewed best if you view in full screen - click on bottom right corner, and hit escape to come back here.

First a short collection of pictures taken from Giupetto and Gianna's 2011 photo shoot - trying to get the best 2011 Christmas photo:



I think we finaly choose this one:





Next 2 family slide shows -




Christmas in Long Beach -




A few days later in PA



Thanks for watching.


Have a great holiday season and all the best for a wonderful New Year.


Sunday, August 21, 2011

FROM EGGS... TO BABIES



I'm a little late in posting this, but this starts about 3 weeks ago...

We got to PA late Thursday night. On Friday morning my husband goes all around watering the potted plants we have on the deck.

He goes upstairs where we have a small deck with a shadow box...







and I hear "There are birds hanging out up here"... Then I hear, "We have eggs!"







Inside the shadow box, is a nest with 4 spotted eggs.







I did see both Mom and Dad, but could not get a picture of them. They are Northern Junkos also known as Dark Slated Junko.



2 weeks later, we went back to PA and.....



there were babies in the nest!



Where you see the yellow lines - that is the outline of thier beaks. If you look close you can see 4 separate yellow outlines. One is beneath the leaf on the left. There ae 4 babies!



And here's Momma. So very hard to see her standing right in the middle over the nest.









((While I was at work, my husband likes to change my screen saver on me, and I came home to this picture. These are not my babies, but I love the similarity, and I just love this picture.))




On Sunday, we packed up to head home. Gianna must think we are going to forget her, because she always climbs on top of the packages. If you take one, she'll just climb up on the next one.

See you later...


Sunday, June 19, 2011

Giupetto's 7th Birthday - June 2, 2011

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIUPETTO !!!



Giupetto gets birthday prezzies in the mail from Shari, and we have a little birthday party.


Everyone loves the cake and treats, including DaVinci. Giupetto says even the birthday card Shari sent him tastes good.


Thank you so much Shari for making Giupetto's birthday so special!


And Giupetto gets to wear a silly birthday hat in the video too.









Sunday, May 1, 2011

Weddings are in the air...

The royal wedding was not the only wedding in my mind this weekend, although I think it may have been my inspiration.



Following is the makings of my latest wedding dress.

This one is for a Cockapoo named Hannah.


I'm ready to make the first cut of this beaautiful lace fabric.

It has an irredescent thread running through it as well, which is hard to show in the pictures.


Looks like I will have just enough.


( The shamrock table cloth is put down to protect the table while I am cutting.)



Sewing begins. The lace fabric gets a double lining so the seams do not show.




The peanut gallery (thank God for lint rollers):



Playing around with some designs for the bodice.

I decided to use an organza ruffle that has sequint flowers in the center. I used this along the neck edge and I made a curved design with it on the bodice.

I also used some organza flowers which have beaded centers.








Work starts on the train - no lining on the train so the lace will really stand out.


Finished dress with train. The train is removable, so Hannah can dance at the reception.








I also bordered the bottom of the train with the organza ruffle.





Here's the dress without the train.





Close up of the bodice.

That bottom flowerette gets removed and that is where the train gets attached:




And here is a picture taken outside with the veil on:


The head piece also has some of the sequint organza ruffle along the front:


Of course, she must cover her face while walking towards the altar - so the veil can be worn over the face:


I wonder if this will be a June wedding. :-)