DaVinci says his first words

I've been trying to teach my bird DaVinci to talk. I kept repeating a few phrases to him, but one of then seems to have caught his fancy.

Here he is saying "How does a cat go? Meow" over and over again.

John is now trying to confuse him by telling him a cat goes Woof Woof, and I am also trying to go on to teach him that a bird goes Chirp Chirp.

If you notice right around the time 3:59 in the following video he does say something other than meow. Is it Woof Woof or Chirp Chirp?

The video is a little less than 5 minutes. He does seem to get a little clearer by the end of the video.
I am, by the way, in the room at the back of the video sewing. You can here the click click of my sewing machine.
I set the tripod up to get this.

Gianna and DaVinci sitting in a tree...

... you know the rest. :-)

Gianna has been obsessed with DaVinci, my moustache parrot, since I got him in August.
I have watched them interact with much trepidation, but I do think they are working it out, and actually really like each other.

In the morning, I open DaVinci's cage and let him come out on his own. Gianna sits right there and waits for him to come out.

I usually know when he is out sitting on the top of his cage door because she barks to tell me.

Sometimes DaVinci goes down to the bottom of the door and they greet each other.

Here they are saying good morning to each other.

DaVinci loves their toy basket, but Gianna is not so sure about sharing her toys. She gets a little excited when he does this, she paws him, and goes to bite his tail, or his head. I tell her to try to relax, and watch like a hawk.

OK, where'd he go?

Gianna has becone a great baby sitter for DaVinci.

IT SNOWED AGAIN!!

Last weekend, on Feb 20th, we got another 8" of snow in PA.
Just before we left to head home the following morning, we wanted to have a little fun in the snow, well at least Gianna did.
Giupetto's hat had fallen in front of his eyes which is why he was having some problems in the beginning of this video, but once I took his hat off he was better.
Still not loving it as much as Gianna though.
Her hat had fallen under her chin and she was dragging it in the snow. LOL

We then dried off and finished packing up to leave. Little did I know that while I was packing things up inside, John had let them play in the snow again, so they again got all wet. We stopped at the first gas station and while we were gassing up the car, I dried them off and changed their coats.

Making of a St Paddy's day dog vest

Due to popular demand, of one person, here are some pics for the making of a dog vest.

Materials needed - tape measure, thread, bobbin, pattern pieces - most made of paper towels, D-Ring, white buttons, shamrock buttons, scissors, pen, customer info sheet, pins, dress makers label, vest fabric, white shirt fabric.

I covered the dining table with a flannel back table cloth to protect the table.

Cut out all the pieces:

Here are all the pieces cut out and ironed, and fabric label has been stitched into the back of the shirt:

Sew the vest pieces first:

Pin the center piece and the vest pieces to the shirt front and stitch in place:



Check on doggies:

Pin shirt front to shirt back:

And stitch together:

Turn right side out:

Add shamrock buttons and white buttons:

Check on doggies:

Add bow tie and velcro.

Finished vest!!

Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial - on the making of a DianaDesigns vest.

I HAVE A SEWING ROOM!!

Well, here are the pictures all together of the making of "Diana's Sewing Room" Pretty much all done now, except I still have to get the bicylce picture matted and framed and put up.

Picture 1 - He just took out the washer/dryer, and placecd the sewing table in there to check the fit:

Picture 2 - Painted the room Angel Yellow:

Picture 3 - and he fixed the hole in the wall where the dryer hose was and cleaned up the bibs:

Picture 4 - happy hubby has a talk with Gianna to get her comments on the new room:

Picture 5 - started adding some white wood shelves, and placed the sewing machine on the table:

Final picture - he bought me a red chair. I love the red, so I bought a red canvas bin for my velcr0, and added a few other red accents, and began organizing my shelves - I get the bottom shelf on both walls. The rest will be for needed supplies and storage.

I thought I would do a video tour of the room. I hate talking on these things as my voice gets lower and I sound like a robot. LOL That is until Gianna comes into the room and I become me again. :-) So just pretend a robot has done the voice over.

Must go now. Time to do some sewing:

GIANNA LOVES THE SNOW

Gianna just loves the snow. She wishes she had a playmate.
She has a wonderful deck to play on, nice and big for an apartment, we just love it.

Gianna says - I'll just have to play outside by myself. Maybe rolling in the snow might be fun...

...and some more rolling, so I am nice and wet when I go inside. This is fun!!

And this is what Giupetto prefers...

Below is a collection of pictures of my 2 pups in the snow - Enjoy.
(The picture right after the one with Giupetto pulling Gianna by the coat, he is pulling her back to the house by the drawstring on her hood. LOL)

SOMETIMES WE LOVE TO PLAY

Mom & Dad got a new rug today, and we just love it. We were both so excited we just started to play and wrestle.

... and we just kept playing...

... and we played some more...

... and we played some more...

Thanks for getting us this new comfy rug.

We give it four paws up.

Giupetto and Gianna