Linda September 7th, 2008
Just an update on the sad tale of our rat Oreo. I could not decide how to put her out of her misery. Some days she looked good and some days she looked bad. Infact, some days she looked pretty bad but was still rooting around in her cage and interacting with us. Who am I to decide the quality of life for a rat??? (what do I know of it’s pain threshold???) So anyway….we just kept doing what we were doing and let her go on. When we got home from church this morning she was dead. I buried her in the back yard by a tree stump and the kids all had their say over her—they kept wanting to sing/hum the funeral march but it kept coming out the wedding march?! So she went on her own. The kids want to get another “pocket” pet but I told them I have enough on my hands with the rescue kitten we have (BTW, her name has become Bad Baby, for reasons we will leave unsaid here!!!)
Linda August 26th, 2008
Yes it is true–what you see is a 2 headed teddy bear. I got the idea one day looking at a magazine and my poor my-optic eyes thought it was a 2 headed bear. My thought was, “hey, cool!” But, upon putting my glasses I realized that I had seen it wrong–but what the heck–I can make my own right???
The rabbit is my attempt at a pattern variation–I am thinking an elephant would be good too.
My plan is to get my butt in gear someday and make up the pattern to sell. But in the mean time–they sit in my studio and keep me company.
On a personal note: our rat is till wobbling around. Some days are good and some days are bad–I just can’t seem to decide the quality of life for a rat. She “seems” to not be in pain. So we let her be, the kids handle her carefully (and we check often to see if she has “passed” in the night.)
My cold is gone–yippee! Fall is here and the squash and cucs are in abundance. I started my blackberry cordial last week so it will be ready to give as gifts for Christmas. We went to the Evergreen State Fair (in Monroe) this last weekend. Max got a second for is picture (he was disgusted with that), Mimi got a first for hers, Scott’s quilt got a second (something about the binding–it will be in a book this fall), and my Dutch Touch doll, Cyril, got a “runner up” Judges choice award/ribbon as well as a first ribbon…just goes to show that it is the “pretty” dolls that get the most attention.
Linda August 2nd, 2008
Here she is as of Aug. 1st. The skirt (actually this will end up being her slip) is an old slip I had from my days running/owning a vintage clothing/antique shop. It is made out of some fine satin fabric with very close pleats but the pleats are shredded in some areas but I liked the look anyway. The material next to her is some of the material I got from Pamela Armas..(in this challenge you send her $20 and she sends you a package of trims and material to use on your doll-at least “some” of it must be used in the doll to qualify). It will become a vest that I will bead upon. The shirt is some raw silk that my mom found at a garage sale and again the sheer fabric over her sleeves is more of the challenge fabric. I am in the process of beading her cuffs. The scarf over her head is just one I had sitting around. I think it looks good so it may end up on her in some fashion (is covers her baldness–she is very shy about it).
On a sadder note: our pet rat, Oreo, is dying. From what I understand, rats don’t live that long and this seems to be the case. Like most of our pets she was a rescue rat—one day Dh found her on the sidewalk in a “plastic container” in front to his work (it was a hot April day)…just abandoned. She was young and no one else wanted her so we took her in and the kids just adored her. Now it is almost 2 years later and she is not looking very well. We all cried over her one night and then she got better–well now she is VERY unwell again and the kids are asking me to put her out of her misery. I said, “just how do you suggest I do that???”. No one has any good ideas–now this is where I get kinda sick, but I thought about putting her in the freezer so she would just get real sleepy and die. But argh—I can not do that because I think–how do people not know that that is a painful way to die?????? Sometimes I think she is dead because she is very “still”….anybody got any good ideas????
