Aloha Treats!!

Our mail carrier loves to comment on how many packages we send out to Luna Blue, in Honolulu Hawaii. Yesterday he made a special point of bringing the mail to our front door to let us know that we had a package from THEM!!

It didn't take long for those Chihuahua noses to figure out that there were TREATS in the package. Very Yummy treats.

There were three bags, each special handmade yummy flavors from Hawaii. There is BBQ Grill Mix, which is Beef, Chicken and Bit O' Bacon. There is the Luna Blue Mix, with Passion Fruit, Papaya, and Cranberry (there are some of the humans around here that want to sample those too!). These are each just the perfect size for the girls and Cooper to scarf down in a snap.

The final bag has larger bone shaped Taro chicken treats. They are like a whole meal, so they will have to be split up and shared.

Insert Breezy here, saying, "Say what?!?!"

Stormie and Shimmer were quick to don the latest Luna Blue designs that we are working on and pose for a picture with their gifts.

Don't you just love the smile on Shimmer's face..???

You should check out the new Luna Blue shop on Etsy! You can now purchase some of the designs that we have been working on -- without having to travel to Hawaii to get them.

Not that that would be a bad thing.

Check it out here. Besides our girls modeling, you can see cute little Noah, spokesdog for Luna Blue.

Someday I am taking Shawn the Wonder Guy and going to Hawaii to meet them all in person!

Gettin' Crafty

I love what I do, I love to sew and create all kinds of doggie fashions. However, I have been feeling really in a rut lately. Like all I ever do is sew the same things. Over and over. And over and over. My creative juices were screaming to get out and simply coming up with some new designs wasn't going to fix the problem.

So, I started with this:

I got the idea from Pinterest and made some adaptations of my own and soon I had this wonderful little garden to greet me as I go in and out of our home. That should be enough to keep me for a while, right?

Well, it did keep me happy. For a while. Then I was back to wanting to do more. It is sort of my release I guess you could say. So next, I created this:

I am really happy with this one. I also got the idea from Pinterest. Just looking at it makes me happy. I love my family.

But then I got thinking. I need to add the dogs! This would probably make the whole thing rather large, so instead I went with this:

I have this one in my studio. It just makes me smile. The idea comes from a super talented lady by the name of Vanessa Campbell, who writes a blog entitled The Sew*er, The Caker, The CopyCat Maker. I contacted her to see if she could send me a file with the "My Dogs" print and before I could name all four dogs, it was sitting in my inbox. Now THAT is wonderful service. You really should go here and see the instructions for this project. It is super easy!

The last project I have to show you is my new message board. I have been wanting to create this to put by our kitchen phone for quite a while now:

I knew I wanted to paint it with chalkboard paint (yes, I am still strangely attracted to that stuff), but I also wanted it to be magnetic. I had an old frame that I painted white. I checked with Shawn the wonder guy and he had a piece of sheet metal that fit inside the frame perfectly. Yay!

Slap some chalkboard paint on that baby and Wah Lah! I have the perfect message board. I used my Silhoutte to add the title at the top, just in case someone was unsure what the whole thing was for. I found the little shelf at Goodwill for $1.99, painted it white and now I have the perfect spot for the chalk and eraser.

The Chihuahua magnets that I purchased here a while back work perfectly on the board.

This has all been so much fun, but now it is time to get back to the sewing machines. While I was busy painting, Shawn the Wonder Guy cleaned and tuned my machines while they were getting a day off, so now they purr like kittens and are raring to go!