Wishes and Daydreams

I really wanted to title this entry something even more fey, like "Wishes and Moonbeams" or "Dreams and Flower Petals" but couldn't bring myself to.

I got an account on ArtFire, which is like Etsy, but free. No fees. I hope to post all the arts I have done that I could currently part with there, and then I will post about it here. If anyone reading this would like an ArtFire, let me know, and I'll get you a special link that will count towards me getting a free Premium account for life. :p Premium involves things like having 10 photos instead of 4 for each item, things like that.

I have wanted to try needle felting, like for tiny plush toys. Like kappas. It'd involve getting special needle felting needles, though, and wool roving, and dying the roving (like yarn, but not twisted up yet) with Kool-Aid, so I dunno. Maybe someday. Maybe the Michael's near me will hold a class on it. That way I can see if it's something for me without investing in materials!

I also have an urge to do tiny cute sculpey things, like fat animals, and little gyroids. I want to, but there's always something else to do, and the hassle of getting out the card table and chair and clay boxes and then baking them... ehhh.

I have been discovering the fun of actually cooking things. Not just "following the flavored rice packet directions," or "melting cheese between two quesadillas, in a frying pan if I'm feeling adventuresome." Breads. Pizza. I made sweet & sour sauce tonight to go over rice, and then threw together a teriyaki sauce and cooked chicken strips in it. I feel like such a dolt for marveling over this, but it's neat to me.

I don't know if any of you play Animal Crossing, but here is where I have put a gallery of screenshots from it. Please enjoy.

Hidden Expertly

We bought this for Quiero (the two pack for small dogs):


He gnawed on it all night, and hasn't made a dent! But he looooves it. And because of this, he felt the need this morning to hide it. He walked around with it in his mouth (yes, it was very cute, considering it's the size of his head), and whimpered and whined because he couldn't find a good place to hide it.

The first time we gave him a dog jerky treat, he whimpered and whined, and we worried he was choking or had a shard stuck in his throat or something. We couldn't find anything wrong, and now we just think it's his distress at having such a wonderful treat and not knowing what to do with it.

So he came in the bedroom with the bone, and here is where he hid it:

In plain sight, on Daniel's pillow. Usually he covers his treasures, so I wonder if he is just trusting Daniel to protect it for him!

Adventures in bread-making continued

Success with loaves of white bread! Next, I would like to try a honey oat bread, I think.

Silly dog!

This dog, this dog who is currently curled up in my clean laundry fast asleep, is silly.

Earlier today, we had to go to the post office, and then we went to McDonalds with a coupon for buy one get one Southern Chicken Sandwich. We brought him along, and the girls at the windows at McDonalds just loved him, cooing and giggling and grinning. They gave us a handful of small milkbone pieces, which he didn't want at the time. When we got home, I put two pieces in his bowl. He came over, picked up one (oh so delicately, the way he does), and took it to the bedroom. I came in a couple moments later, and discovered him "burying" it under my pillow. He saw me watch him, pulled it back out, and made a little distressed noise while he re-hid it under my pajamas, carefully pulling the cloth over it. He then went and got the other piece from his bowl, and hid it in our bin of paper and cardboard that's waiting to be recycled.

When we came in to bed, he got on the bed first, and I didn't see what he did, but the pajamas were moved aside, and the milkbone gone! I wonder if he put it in the laundry basket and is now sleeping on top of it. I did watch him very carefully arrange some socks to make a nest to lie in before he settled down...