Dogs

It is no secret I love dogs


Must we really???

With attitude like this what's not to love?
However it's not just the furry varitey I love, I am very attracted to Doxie's. I really love Badskirt's doxies available to buy here

So image my joy when I noticed a link on the Spoonflower website for How to make a Doxie Necklace I was intriged and followed the link to Etsy and found this fab little boy, with full making instructions.

I love him. I am going to make a list of projects to do when I'm off for Christnas and he's on it. Now this list may never be completed but I at least like the idea of snuggling up on a cold winter's day with a list of projects to play with.

Are they serious?

Tonight I started to look for a little bit of horse fabric that Heather Ross had produced, so I browsed around etsy. I was minding my own business and not really finding what I was after...... and then I noticed the ridiculous prices that some retailers are listing at.

Now I am a self-confessed fabric junkie, and would go to extreme measures to get something I really wanted, but $45 (£30) for a fat quarter? I ask you; are they serious???

I know Heather Ross produces amazing fabrics and that so many are hard to find because they are out of print, but are they really worth it? I have several of these hard to find fabrics and have used many of them as linings in  my bags, I love them but would not spend that much money on a little square of fabric that probably originally retailed at about $8 a yard.

I suspect I will have to admire them from afar or wait until she releases more patterns to spoonflower. In the mean time something to drool over.

my own fabric

I have been doodling around making digital images. My OH started a little supply shop called Fat Frog Supplies and I made him a little frog.

I messed around with the image a little and made a Mrs Fat Frog as well. I really like her spots but I'm not 100% about the mouth.

I decided to get them printed as swatches by spoonflower and am really impressed with how it turned out. I will be ordering more soon.

This one needs a little bit more tweaking but I really like the spots, so I may also do another one with the frogs having rainbow spots.