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Introducing Lola, my little sister. My parents and sisters adopted her when she was just a tiny pup and now she is a monster! That is an x-large collar on her! 

My sister Paula told me that Lola was walking around so proud last night. I think she knows just how pretty she is! 

I finally gave one to Lola on Saturday when my mom and sisters came over to help me sew. It is August and I am already preparing for Winter shows — they are going to sneak up on me I just know it. It was so good to have them in the studio, lots of good energy floating around. And we got a ton done! Yahoo!

How beautiful is this!! I am really happy with her initial concept, and look at my Cessie — front and center! 

Okay off to the shower I go. I have instituted a no pajama wearing while working rule. It is a non-negotiable rule. My friend Allissa told me about non-negotiable rules last night. I had no idea that those existed — I can’t wait to tell Dan. Haha. 

Oh and I cut all my hair off last week, check that out too– so strange!

So super cute!! I love the hair on Cody’s ears 😉  You can read all about Melissa and her pup here on BigSky Girls.

So I came home to read about it — try to expand my understanding of the subject. Turns out it is quite the phenomenon. Dog Yoga…hmm…makes sense I guess. I mean where did they come up with downward facing dog anyway? Pooch inspired???

Thing is that my dogs seem pretty relaxed as it is. I mean, they wake up in my bed, take a run around the yard, pee, come in and eat, sleep, go back outside, pee….well you get the picture. Lots of eating and sleeping going on around here. I don’t think I’d be able to convince the husband that we should spend a cent of his hard earned money to help the dogs feel more relaxed. This isn’t to say that I haven’t met a dog or two in my time who would benefit from some chilling out. I just wonder if the dogs will really let you put them in the pose. When I want to cuddle and Cessie doesn’t there is no amount of force in my body that can get or or keep her lying next to me. All the sudden her 12lb body has the strength of 10 men. I can’t imagine trying to get her to stand in tree pose. (I am laughing out loud at this visual hehe)

After all the giggling I guess this is what I got from my research this morning: Some dogs, like people, cannot calm down to save their lives.  And really, as crazy as the whole thing might sound, the more things we have to make our world a calmer place, well I’m all for that.

So grab your dog, your mat, an open mind, and read about the whole thing here. 

 And Namaste, the God in me bows the the God in you, canine, human, whatever you may be 😉

Yes, that’s right. It is Matilda, my ‘Matilda”s name sake.  I am usually not a plush kind of gal, but this one is so beautiful!  

Even though she’s a French Bulldog, if I squint she looks like my puggy Ceccie. 

Lori Marie  totally outdid herself again. I wish I had an ounce of the creativity that she has! She also put some other pretty cool things up in her shop, so you should for sure check it out. 

The Matilda plush made my day a bit brighter yesterday after I found out that my Francis Francis X1 espresso maker is broken and it seems as if no one in the entire world is willing to fix it. And the one person I found said it would cost almost as much as I paid for it. All that is wrong is that I run way too many things at once in my kitchen and kept blowing the power which in turn blew the power switch. I am so sad because it isn’t like I can buy a new one– Francis Francis is making pod only makers now and who wants espresso from a pod? I want to pick the coffee out myself. I want to bite into the bean before i buy it. Then I want to grind it just to my liking. It is totally ruined if all I have to do it take a pod out of a box! I am so desisted about the whole thing. 

Anyone have an espresso maker that the love and can recommend? 

RIP Orange Francis Francis,  Nov. 07- July 08

Actually we got them last week, and it was super exciting then, but I was too busy to share a picture of them 😉  I got to ship my order off to Dogville  in California with the new labels in tact. They are woven so I never have to deal with the whole raw edge thing I did on the others. These will not unravel, I don’t have to make them myself, and I have 500 of them. It is a glorious thing.

You might notice another change– yes we stopped using white thread in favor of colored that matches the webbing. The one here on the Jewel set is Hunter Green. Unfortunately we couldn’t photograph the 5/8 xtra-small version because I tried out a new supplier who, after two weeks, sent me Teal Webbing. I sent it back. Then yesterday they sent me Kelly Green. Both totally beautiful, but neither came close to being Hunter Green like I needed! I am about to lose my mind over it.

But, all can’t go perfectly and the labels are enough to be happy about for quite awhile. They weren’t easy to get either. I’d been looking for a manufacture in the U.S. for a few months before I found one in New York. I have taken an oath to myself to not buy anything for Mimi Green that wasn’t made right here in the United States, and nowadays that isn’t an easy thing to live by.

Either way, after all that work I have a new appreciation for tags. From now on, I don’t care how itchy or scratchy it is, I am never ever going to cut a tag out of a shirt or from the back of pants out of respect for whomever had them made.  Well, never for today anyway…hehe….