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Sewing Hang Over

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Yes, this is me avoiding getting ready for tomorrow’s show. And it’s not because I am lazy, it is because I am so TIRED! Yesterday i whipped up 8 leashes, 3 collars, mailed orders and took care of a teething baby who is really hurting bad. Poor Auggie. Today I need to go to the bank to get change, go to the post office to mail packages to Canada, and fax my letter of driver improvement school completion to Albuquerque  Metro Court (don’t ask;) That is all before I complete my goal of making 15 more collars today and painting my leash stand, green of course.

So I better run, but I will leave you with this:  This odd couple has finally bonded, look how cute they were this morning sunbathing together. As soon as this madness is over  the first project on hand is making Miss Etta a new bed 😉
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Mimi Green Turns a Month Old!

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It’s been a smashing month for Mimi Green!  There have been lots of developments since our birth on the interwebs.

Lori Marie at Pretty Little Things featured her French Bulldog Matilda wearing a Mimi Collar. It is adorned with one of Lori’s beautiful flower pins that she sells in her wonderful shop  Matilda2

An article that I wrote with two other Etsy sellers was featured on Etsy this week. It is about the Dog MafiaDogmafiastorque

The Dog Mafia is a team that I recently joined– all Etsy sellers who love dogs, donate to dog charities, and support one another in our efforts to make the world a more dog friendly place.

Then Yesterday I got an email from Erin who featured Mimi dog collars on her blog.

 

It still makes me super excited to see my work on the web!

I have met so many nice people, sold lots of hip collars and leashes, and I get to do what I love.

Things are good on this front;)

Saturday is my first show at Cup O’ Joe in Albuquerque. It is a super cute coffee house and only about 10 of us will be selling our goods there. It is perfect for a first show– not so scary when it is a small event.

I will post lots of pictures from there, but try to come out if you can!

And thank you to everyone who made my first month full of sunshine.

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How much my husband loves me…

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New baby! Yesterday Bernina was having a sale  and after watching my constant frustration with Constance (my very hard working Singer)  Dan  told me to go pick  up this very beautiful Berinina Activa 220!!Img_0349Yahoo! I am so excited! It goes through straps like butter and it makes such a pretty purring sound. A very sweet woman named Margurette sold her to me, so I figure it is only appropriate to name her after the Bernina sale woman.

Now to work! I finally got my mailing labels, post cards, business cards, and magnets in:

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So I will be spending the week loving my machine up, mailing post cards to every pet store whose adress I can get my hands on, and finding ways to thank my husband– he is the best in the world;)

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Pug-nic 2008

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Today was Pugnic at Bow Wow Blues. Noah, Cessie and I went and had a pug load of fun;)

There was a costume contest

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Pugs bobbing for hot dogs (here is Cessie, she didn’t really think a wiener was worth getting her face all wet for, I agree)

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Some pugs looked like they were having way too much fun, he will feel it in the morning, I’m sure…

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It was so super great getting to spend time with Noah, he couldn’t stop telling people that his momma makes dog collars (taught the boy well, hehe)Img_0328

Cecilia is so lucky to have Noah as an owner, he is so super in love with her.

And isn’t she smashing in her Mimi Green collar?

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Fabric Frenzy!! Free Shipping!!

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Grand opening!!!  Mimi Green Fabrics is now open for business!

www.ShopMimiGreenFabrics.etsy.com

In honor of how excited I am that this shop is opening, I am offering free shipping.

I just had the idea for this today. I figure that I order all of this fabric 15 yards at a time– way more than I need just for myself. And how did I get to this point? Out of frustration really. Amy Butler fabric isn’t sold ANYWHERE in Albuquerque. I got to thinking how I must not be the only one out there who has no access to her beautiful prints, so Mimi Green Fabrics was born. And I decided not to draw out the maturation of this shop, like I have with Mimi Green. I hope it can be of use to some of you out there!

I am so excited to get to share this with everyone. I can’t tell you how close I am to being able to stay home with Auggie and Noah, and really, there is no better way to get to do that except for this.

And I promise, by this time next week Mimi Green will be up and running also so you can see what I have been making with all this gorgeous fabric!

 

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I had an itch to sew last night. Thankfully, my pug is very appreciative. Img_0219

And then I had the urge to embroider.
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Good thing I had fabric and stuffing to make this bed or my husband may have ended up with his name sewed on all of his pairs of underwear.

I see some things that I could have done differently, but at 11pm, this was all I had in me. I got the instructions here from Lori Marie at little pretty things.

 

And little Cecilia, well she has never been so happy. Next time , a  doggie coat.

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Oh Cecelia, You’re Breaking My Heart

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I have wanted a pug since I can remember. When we were trying to decide if it was time for a new baby I told Dan that it was a dog or a baby. I had it in my head that I wanted to either cuddle a baby or a wrinkly little pug. Dan made us get a black Lab. Needless to say, we had a baby.

Auggie turned 6 months on Wednesday and I still wanted a pug. I should have just told Dan that I wanted a baby AND a pug, but after talking to NM pug rescue, I found out that it wasn’t too late.

Meet Cecelia Miller. We are calling her Cessie.

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Oh, she makes Auggie so happy. Well, she isn’t ours to keep, we are just fostering her for the rescue who right now has 14 pugs in need of a home.  I met up with the NM Pug organizer, Kelly, yesterday at NM Animal Humane and got to take this baby girl home after she had surgery to remove a growth on her arm

You wouldn’t even know that she was cut into yesterday, she is so happy to be here and has already made herself at home. Me, well, I am gonna have a hard time giving her back to be put up for adoption. She is already sporting a Mimi Green original design…Img_0209

I made her this collar this morning and was going to embroider her name on it until I realized that her new owners might change it. I want her to take this with her so she can remember her foster momma. Img_0214
Plus I think the beautiful blue buttons will make her feel better from her surgery, along with the blue striped bed and baby blue leash that I bought her yesterday. I also bought an insane amout of treats, Chicken Soup for the Dog’s Soul canned food, and Paul Newman peanut butter pieces. Noah says that I am going to spoil her.
What is sad is that her daughter was picking on her at the rescue and from the looks of her apparently not letting her eat or drink. Good thing our lab, Etta, is being very generous. Img_0218

You can see her stitches in this one, they aren’t pretty. Poor girl.

Sewing the collar was super simple. I will be putting up a tutorial for it soon, I think I’ll make one for each one of the pugs at NM Pug Rescue.  Click here for the link to them, but don’t  blame me if you instantly fall in love.