Thankful Thursday ~ Gilbert - My Pacific Parrotlet

Happy Thankful Thursday everyone!

Today I am thanking & celebrating my beautiful 12 year young birdy Gilbert!

I have baked him special treats today and we are having a tea party!

Please come and join us!

The music is playing and we are singing and dancing on this glorious Gilbert day!

The door is wide open letting in our friends and all of the Summer breezes!

We cannot wait to see you!

xoxox

Melissa, Gilbert & R-Chee

Fun Summer Project ~ The Super Slipper Upgrade

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Yay!  

I am so excited!

Guess what?!

My slipper resoling project that R-Chee mentioned in Monday's Post was a complete success!

If you remember, last year I made two pairs of prototype slippers before finding the perfect design for my favorite green slippers that I made.

Here are the links to the first two that I liked, but they needed better soles to be a bit warmer & sturdier in their design...

The 1st pair

The 2nd pair

The 3rd pair... My favorite slippers

I just finished updating them to be warmer, more comfy and indoor/outdoor ready so that I can get the mail in them and follow R-Chee out to the backyard to play!

Here are the two pairs of slippers with their new soles made and ready to sew on!

I used my favorite Lion Brand Yarns:

Wool-Ease Thick & Quick for the main part of the soles with an Amazing Yarn border.

After I sewed them on with my yarn needle to the existing soles I cut scrap pieces of leather and poked holes in them with an awl to lace through.

I decided to make just a few stitches in the center for a quick release & resew method for easy washing.

I also crocheted new tops for my first pair of slippers in the Amazing Yarn to make them warmer.

I found did not like all the holes on the top of the first design I made them in.

I just love how warm, comfy and indoor/outdoor ready they are now!

Yipppeeee!

Now R-Chee and I are working on his retro rug hooking for his pug cave that I started last Fall.

We are almost done and will be able to show it to you soon.

...and I have another makeover project that I have started and will get to reveal in the coming weeks.

What FUN projects are you working on this Summer?

Have you planted a garden?

Please let us know and give us all the details!

We cannot wait to hear!

xoxoxo

Melissa & R-Chee

Crochet Cowl ~ Inspired by Archie & his Woofie Warmer

Happy Monday everyone!

It is me...

R-Chee!

Guess what my momma is doing on some of our warmest days of the year?

She is happily making her favorite Fall & Winter items for herself!

She loves to make them this time of year because this is the time of year she can squeeze in making projects for herself to enjoy!

She has been wanting to make herself a neck gator scarf to match my Woofie Warmer so that we both can be toasty warm on our walks together in the colder months!

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I love the colors she chose in her favorite yarn ... 

Lion Brand's Amazing Yarn!

She chose the Cactus Flower colorway for this project.

Ta Da!

Now she is working on a project we actually made last year!

She has been wanting to revisit a couple of pairs of slippers she made as prototypes last Fall.

They were the first two pairs...

http://pugnotes.blogspot.com/2012/09/fall-in-foothills-art-for-my-feet.html

http://pugnotes.blogspot.com/2012/08/crochet-slippers-gone-rogue.html

she made after finally working out the design she developed for her favorite slippers in the whole world.

She updated them to be warmer, more comfy and indoor/outdoor ready so that she can get the mail in them and follow me out to the backyard to play!

We will show them to you on Wednesday!

... again she is finding inspiration for making gifities for herself after making them for me!

What FUN things do you inspire your pawrents to do?

Please leave me a note and let me know!

I cannot wait to hear all about it!

xoxoxo

R-Chee

Friday Funnies ~ R-Chee & Gilbert open their own Bed & Breakfast!

Happy Friday everyone!

It is me...

R-Chee with my bird brother Gilbert. 

We are opening our own B & B for all of our fur & feathered friends today!

We got the brilliant idea from the mushrooms we saw growing in the garden!

We could not think of a better way to spend the weekend then to open up our kitchen and pug cave to all of our friends for a sleep over!

We are serving mushroom omelettes & then sleeping the afternoon away in by the window with the Summer sun & warm breezes blowing in!

Won't you come & join us?

Here are two videos of us showing you the accommodations!

Please just leave us a note on this post to book your reservations now!

We will fluff your pillows and crack the eggs as soon as you arrive!

We cannot wait to see you!

xoxox

R-Chee & Gilbert

Sister's Art Retreat June 2013 ~ Project 2 ~ Batiks!

Happy Wednesday everyone!

I am so excited to show you the second project that Melly and I finished on our twin sister's art retreat last weekend!

On Monday, I showed you the felt house village we created and today I will get to show you the batiks we completed together!

We started drawing them last month in our Batik 101 class and got to paint them together right after we finished making the village!

Please click here if you would like to see the process of how to make these easy, no mess, no wax, non-toxic way of creating batiks!

Melanie created this fabulous mountain bike scene and I made a bunny!

The photo above shows what it looks like before you wash and dry it...

... and this is what it looks like after!

Melanie is making hers into a wall hanging!

... and I simply machine sewed mine onto an old pillow cover that I had in the closet, and then hand stitched orange pom pom trim around it just like I did for my first batik so that they would match on the bed! :)

Ta Da!

I just loved how they turned out!

Melanie and I had so much FUN!

We even got to read our books a little, and I worked on my rug hooking for R-Chee's pug cave on the way home.

It is almost done and I will be able to show it to you soon!

We had such a blast that we have already planned another twin sister's art retreat for a weekend in July & August!

I know more Batiks & Felt Houses are planned and a special crochet project will be started too!

What FUN things do you have planned for the Summer?

Please leave me a note and let me know!

I cannot wait to hear all about them!

xoxoxox

Melissa & R-Chee

Twin Sister's Art Retreat - June 2013 - Felted Houses!

Happy Monday Everyone!

Oh what a magical art retreat Melanie and I had together this weekend in the mountains!

I cannot wait to show you all the things we made!

I will break the projects up into a few posts so that I can show you everything!

We arrived to Melly's little mountain cabin on Friday afternoon and did not stop crafting until Sunday!

It was non-stop FUN!

The 1st project we created were these little hand sewn wool felted houses that we made from wool felted sweaters and scrap pieces.

We made a whole village!

We got the pattern from a wonderful tutorial & pattern on Craftsy.com, called Fab Felt Holiday Crafts!

They are so fast and easy to make!

We cut out the pieces on Friday night and started sewing them before bed.

We woke up with excitement on Saturday morning to start stuffing and decorating them!

Here are our houses in progress after starting to embellish them!

... and here are the 3 that Melanie made!

These are the 2 that I created!

Then on the way home to Boulder, we even stopped at Joann's Fabrics  to pick up some trim to put on some finishing touches!

See my owl peeking out of the back window? :)

Ta Da!

That was soooo much FUN that we are going to make a whole village!

The houses were just the first project we made!

I cannot wait to show you more this week!

How was your weekend?

Please leave me a note and let me know!

R-Chee & I cannot wait to hear all about it!

xoxoxo

Melissa & R-Chee