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Originally Posted by FireSprite 
Does that even sound doable?? I should have asked this question a long, long time ago!
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Originally Posted by Refiner
AWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to know their names! I do that too! LOL.
The one with white feet is Krudler - it's blatently stolen from the Simpsons episode when Bette Midler & Krusty the Klown own a horse. This guy is so cuddly that even as a tiny kitten he would crawl into the nearest lap, ANY lap, when he was tired & just take a nap. But.... he can really be a jerk-wad too. One day I was like, "You are so cuddly but that can't be your name cuz you act cruddy too.... you're like a Krudler" and it stuck.
His bro, Gizmo is exactly like the character from the movie. Super sensitive, must stick to a rigid bedtime, lol. He is a gorgeous cat, his underside has burnt-orange tones & I used to tell him he was "soooo pretty" but he somehow knows that's a term for girls & would sulk when I said it. For example - The Look:
But once I switched to "Handsome" - oh my! That is the only thing he'll respond to now. ("Handsome Gizmo" is moderately acceptable) He guards DD while she sleeps every night. If she locks him out for some reason, he sticks his face to the floor right at the crack under her door & yowls until someone lets him in. If she's off at a sleepover, whew, I hear about it! (Red alert: Kid Missing!)
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Originally Posted by FireSprite
That is so generous! Quilting is so beautiful, but we've already covered in another thread how *I* am completely without talent in this particular area. 
I am, however, saving every t-shirt of DD's that relates to her life experiences (1st Pre-k, summer camps, theater shows she was in, class trips, her 1st uniform shirt from work/my office, etc.) and I'm hoping to be able to have them all quilted together one day. I'm thinking it could be a great sentimental gift for when she graduates college - it can represent everything in her life up that point when she becomes fully independent.
Does that even sound doable?? I should have asked this question a long, long time ago!
I am, however, saving every t-shirt of DD's that relates to her life experiences (1st Pre-k, summer camps, theater shows she was in, class trips, her 1st uniform shirt from work/my office, etc.) and I'm hoping to be able to have them all quilted together one day. I'm thinking it could be a great sentimental gift for when she graduates college - it can represent everything in her life up that point when she becomes fully independent.
Does that even sound doable?? I should have asked this question a long, long time ago!
Just me!
It's very doable. Save every memory, tee shirts are great, but I bet there will be other memories you can add to your quilt. I'm a new quilter. I started quilting as therapy for my job. I was a hospice nurse, and also a clinical nurse specialist. I was the one that wound go out in the middle of the night and start IV lines in the home and set up pain pumps. It was very rough some times, so quilting was a good relief from stress!
Little did I know, my stress was going to have an entirely different cause!!
I don't have a creative bone in my body!! If I can quilt so can you. !!!
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You´re all giving me hope, I´ve always wanted to be a quilter but it seems so difficult! I have the utmost respect for anyone who can make a quilt.
I can knit, sew, embroider and crochet since I was a kid but have never felt confident enough to embark on quilting. It´s a lifelong dream, though...
I can knit, sew, embroider and crochet since I was a kid but have never felt confident enough to embark on quilting. It´s a lifelong dream, though...
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Originally Posted by Zircon
Not sure how to add I picture. I would if I knew how .
Here's how I do it:
1) Go to this site Postimage.org - free image hosting / image upload It's free and safe, at least in the year or so I've been using it.
2) Choose whether to download off the web or take from your computer's files.
3) Enter the info it asks for.
4) Hit the upload button, then hit it again on the next screen.
5) Your image is ready to go in a variety of sizes. I use the "hotlink for forums" when I post here.
Alternatively, this thread The Alcoholism and Addictions Help Forums- by SoberRecovery.com (How to put pics in your posts) tells you how to use a different site to add pictures to your posts here.
Hope that helps!
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Honeypig- your Ned looks SO much like my basset/golden mix Sammy who died last year at 17 that it brought tears to my eyes! Oh my goodness! I think it may be time for me to get a dog again... Missing him SO much seeing your picture!
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WTBH--Rudyard Kipling said it pretty well:
The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair, -
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent,
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve;
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair, -
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent,
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve;
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
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Originally Posted by honeypig
WTBH--Rudyard Kipling said it pretty well:
The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair, -
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent,
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve;
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet's unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find - it's your own affair, -
But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone - wherever it goes - for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear!
We've sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent,
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve;
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long -
So why in Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
I did not grow up with dogs and then I got Sammy the year before I met xAH... He was this crazy hybrid of a bassett and a golden and was SUCH a love! When he was 4, xAH and I got another dog, a golden, together.
But Sammy was my favorite and I had him most of my adult life and he was my constant, always loving companion... I adored him and I never realized the hole that losing a pet leaves on a person until he died.
Then Ellie died a month after Sammy did and I thought I might have a breakdown.
Its been a year + since they both passed away and I just miss them so so so much! I spent last week dog walking for a friend and it has made me realize how much I miss having a dog...
Seeing those big Bassett eyes that you posted of your Ned, Honeypig, just pulled on every heartstring I have!
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Hmmm...what do I like to do?!? I like working in the yard-getting my hands dirty. I like old vintage furniture and I hope to someday open a little shop for both-plants and old restored furniture that I can run and work at! I love running-hiking-fishing. Anything outdoors. I'm really liking cooking now that I have taken that over from my ex-he always cooked. I enjoy reading but don't have near enough time 
anything with my kids is a hobby 
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I'd shared a photo of my latest completed knitting project on the Infinite Happy thread, but here's a photo of my boys, who fill my days with a lot of laughs and love. I blurred out DS's face, so really, it's a photo of our cat, Sasuke. He's a rescue and the shelter said he'd been found roaming the east side of town after his previous owner passed. They said he was about 2.5 yo at the time (about 4 years ago, now?). I thought that meant he was done growing, but he's now about twice as big as when we brought him home. Our current apartment has a weight limit for pets, and I'm afraid he's probably pretty darn close to that limit now. He's certainly bigger than most of the dogs we see at the building. He's heavy, but DS says it's all fluff. 
He's a big ole sweetie and so pretty, but needs _a lot_ of attention. I'm afraid he gets told "I'm done, go bug your boy" a lot; and he'll jump down and walk off to find DS -- complaining the whole way.
He's a big ole sweetie and so pretty, but needs _a lot_ of attention. I'm afraid he gets told "I'm done, go bug your boy" a lot; and he'll jump down and walk off to find DS -- complaining the whole way.
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Originally Posted by theuncertainty
They said he was about 2.5 yo at the time (about 4 years ago, now?). I thought that meant he was done growing, but he's now about twice as big as when we brought him home.
He's part Coon, I can tell.
It fits your details above too - they hit a late growth spurt around 2-2.5 yrs & all of mine got huge around that time too. Yours looks like a mix of ALL of mine, lol!Here's my Siamese curled up for a nap in my yoga mat basket. (He's a mutt too - the vet classified him as exotic with chocolate tips. His mama is an all-black, average short-hair):
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