Doggie Story: Noisy Neighbors

Last year, on Poppy’s birthday, I posted a doggie story. Well, it is that time of the year again. I will share another story with you.

When we first moved to our home it has this heavy brown front door with a metal frame. The house sits in a large tropical garden.
One late evening my husband and I settled down to watch a movie. Suddenly, we heard a loud noise resonated through the house. It sounded like a wild animal’s mating call, or some sort of strange big bird, I thought it was coming from the tree tops outside in the backyard.

As you can imagine, Poppy went mental and insisted on going out to investigate. I went with her. I used a powerful torch light to scan the tree tops, I couldn’t see anything. Poppy searched the yard and she turned up nothing.

A couple of days later that noise happened again. I was in the kitchen preparing dinner and thought it came from the front garden this time. I went to the front door with Poppy by my side. As I stood there with the door opened, the animal made the noise again. Poppy started sniffing the door up and down and found the source of the noise.

Can you see the white arrow on the door?

A closer look...

Tree frogs. You wouldn’t think these small creatures made those big noises, but they did.

We changed our front door. Poppy can relax now, no more noisy neighbors.

Happy birthday Poppy. Happy seven years' old.

Unfinished business

I am not a pink person so when I was given some pink yarns they stayed in my stash for a long while. Since I am on a stash busting mission I thought I would use it up by making a jacket. It is a thick yarn it would be a quick project, right?

Here is the back. The left and right front.

The sleeves.

Then the edging.

Just a few more rounds...but I run out of yarn Oooooo%$#@*&^!! I sewed everything in as I went, locking all the threads, so there is no way I am going to undo this.

This yarn is discontinued. Patons Beehive Shetland Chunky Shade 9012 Lot 39210.

Let's hope someone will sell them on the internet. Right now this little unfinished business is going back to stash! Not a quick project after all.

Decoration for my work place

My current employer is very pet friendly. Poppy visited and stayed with me one Friday afternoon. She was so well behaved. She would give people love and kisses when they wanted to pet her, otherwise she settled down in her corner under my desk.
My work cubicle is rather bare. As it happened we have moved to a new expanded area yesterday. My new station looks the same but it will be my permanent home. I want to decorate it with handmade stuff.

Gathering up scraps and yarn ends.

Using an Embellish Knit to make I-cord…it is very fun to use.

My first butterfly...going to make leaves and flowers now.

Thank you for visiting, until next time, take care and have a great weekend.

Lace Doily

I finished the doily last week, washed and blocked it over the weekend.
It is about 19" (48cm) across. The pattern is from this Japanese book. I used size 10 cotton thread from Aunt Lydia's which is thicker than what the pattern asks for.

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Where to buy the pattern? http://www.yesasia.com/ and search the words "crochet pineapple lace"

In the right frame of mind

I have not written for more than 2 months. Not that I don't want to, I just needed to be in the right frame of mind to do so.

When Poppy is not well I fret over her. It is not that she has been ill. She was just plain clumsy. She run across a slippery surface one day, her back leg went under her, and she tore a ligament in her knee and injured a toe. It took nearly three weeks for her to heal.

Just when we thought all was well, Poppy started having dizzy spells and one time actually collapsed. It turned out to be an ear infection that affected her inner ear and her balance; after a week of medication Poppy is better now. I can relax and spend time in my craft room.

I have two more rows to do then the doily is done. But the next row is tricky. I would need to join and cut the thread to do 12 separate sections before working the final round. I started another project: it is a little toy elephant. I took it to bed with me, knitting a few rows every night. The head is nearly done.It is hurricane session with us now. It has been raining today. The sky is so grey and dark.But a little bit of rain is not going to stop Poppy waiting outside for the love of her life (my hubby) to come home from the gym.Poppy is good. I hope you are keeping well and are enjoying your summer where ever you are.

Till next time. Take care.

Curtains for my craft room

Poppy is all better now and she is her happy self again. It is hot outside already. Poppy has chosen a cool spot, checking out a little ant while waiting for my husband to come home from the airport.
Does she really know that her human Daddy is on his way home? If I tell her "Michael, home." "Poppy waits for Michael." then yes, she knows.

While Poppy is on watch duty outside, I started on my craft room curtains inside. I bought a piece of fabric that has the pattern of these leaves.

I finally able to use up the curtain gathering band from my stash.

It looks better in real life.

Curtains are not popular in Florida and I could not find any net curtain easily. So I use voile instead, also from stash.

Here is my finished project.

I am happy with the result. It makes the room more cosy.

A few photos

In my last post I meant to upload a few photos over the weekend. Then the unexpected happened. We were without water for a couple of days. Poppy injured her paw and my husband had to travel at very short notice. Things are back to normal now. Here are some of the pictures I want to show you.

I am making progress with my crochet.
Took Poppy to the Juno dog beach. Boy, it was so windy. Poppy was on the far left.

Too cold for me to go near the water...and yes, that was when Poppy told me she has done something to her paw.

Don't often have cold and windy days in March. It is warming up though. I know Spring is coming when I see this plant in flowers.

Just love the color.