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Pug-nic 2008

Posted on by Amanda Jackson

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!!

Posted on by Amanda Jackson

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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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Posted on by Amanda Jackson

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

Posted on by Amanda Jackson

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.

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My Sometimes Invisible Brain and My very Visible Gullibleness

Posted on by Amanda Jackson

Yesterday I told everyone that I work with that manatees are invisible in the wild. Yup, I said it and everyone believed me. And where did I hear this factoid? From my good friend Chad. He was apparently making a joke about how he went on a Manatee tour in Florida this past weekend and how he saw no manatees. I saw the photos and took it literally, I mean how would I have known, there was even a picture of Captain Jack, the invisible manatee tour guide.

After Internet researching for 30 minutes, my boss Doug alerted us to the fact that manatees are not ever invisible, not even in the wild. At least that is what the interwebs told him. I proceeded to defend myself by showing all of them Chad’s photos of invisible manatees and the shadows these gigantic mammals cast.  “Look,” I said. “This clealy says that manatees are invisible except for in captivity.” Boy did we call have a good laugh at me when Doug pointed out that he thought that Chad was joking.

Here is the picture that I printed out for my cube of the invisible manatee, it is the one below the photo of Jim Henson’s puppets from the Labyrinth.

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Here are some more facts about manatees that you might not know:

1. The average adult manatee is about three meters (9.8 feet) long and weighs between 362-544 kilograms (800-1,200 pounds).

2.There are approximately 3,000 West Indian manatees left in the United States.

3. Manatees can live 60 years or more.

4. Manatees are pregnant for a year. This is what I attribute their slow decline to. If I had to be pregnant for 12 months or face the demise of my species, I can’t say that I would take one for the team. We’d be goners.

Speaking of procreating, Auggie is turning 6 months next week. Here is a sneak peak at the present I am making for him….

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Yes, almost six months have gone by. Nuts how fast it goes.

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New Baby; Same Bag

Posted on by Amanda Jackson

Canon_2 She arrived from Amazon last week. Canon SD1000 Elph.  I thought I’d never waste money on a point and shoot, but lately, with a 7 year old, a baby and a very large diaper bag in tow, I have found that I no longer have the capacity to carry around my bulky Canon SLR.  Turns out that heading to the dark side wasn’t such a bad idea.

She shoots video that actually is watchable upon my television set.

She has manual settings that make me feel like I am the one responsible for the shot.

She is shoots more mega pixels as my last Nikon D100–  7.1 to be exact.

And thanks to her friend, the SanDisk Ultra II 2 gig card, she is fast as lightning.

But her biggest asset in my book is that she fits perfectly in the pocket of my purse / yoga bag / diaper tote  and my husband’s big hands. Yes, my husband the photography teacher has been shooting with it too. Picture_015  I wasn’t sure that he would come anywhere near it since it doesn’t shoot out 4×5 negatives, but he likes her tiny, powerful body . That’s men for you.

Oh I forgot to say that if you have all sorts of time before you need to take your photo, you can designate a color in your frame that this very smart camera will select while rendering the rest of the image in black and white. Auggie thinks this feature is pretty cool, but I don’t think I will ever remember to use it again.

The lens quality on the SD1000 seems to be pretty good, what else would you expect from a Canon though.  (Full review here on DPhoto Journal )

Basically I am in love. Not to say that I am trading in the SLR, I still needed its precision for things like this last week: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=290208995622&ssPageName=STRK:MESO:IT&ih=019#ebayphotohosting

Now back to shooting my new favorite subject, I like to call this one “Portrait of the Artist’s Son, With Carrot.”

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