What color is the rabbit supposed to be?

Where should I put the rabbit and what color should it be? Not a dutch belted, to challenging! White seemed to eastery, black too dark. I got out all my browns. This is the lightest.

It is too dark. Maybe grey? I got a piece of rag wool sweater. No. too dull, blends it too much. Well, I could use a variegated grey and sandwich it in with white, and make chenille.

I could select parts of the grey that I want for different parts of the rabbit, depending on value, and sandwich that into the chenille! Great idea! No, lint lint lint, and lots of work. So the rabbit will be white.

It's supposed to have a bunny

1 I can't figure out what I should do with this. It's very light pastel, which is nurturing and OK, but I don't want it to fade together and blur. The primcess has dark hair.

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browband bling

LiquidSabre, an online acquaintance showed me this bracelet she made. I remarked that is was nice, it would be really nice on a browband. She asked "What (the heck) is a browband?" I could have used the old line: "It's a dressage thing, you wouldn't understand."

Instead, I took pictures of mine and added some explanation to the pictures. I posted them here for her to see.



And that will help you understand why I took all these pictures of my hairy horse wearing his dirty bridle!

If your monitor is showing the pictures too small to read the text, and you are really interested, you can click on the pictures for the McGoo View.
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I did this

This one is finished. I took another picture because last ones were no good.

I put the finishing touches on this one. Now it is ready for it's final laundering. I'll probably wait so it doesnt have to go alone.
I got started on this one,

and put the last wax and dye on this. Now it needs rinsing and was removal.

I have been reading Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. Wow. I'm on page 700 and something. It's a good read.

Then I saw Fierce Creatures with John Cleese, Michael Palin, Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis. That was silly. It's a good thing I didn't make Joseph watch it.

I am watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD. I am having a good time with that. I had thought I wanted to see Sex and the City. We don't get any cable TV, so I have never even had a chance to see it. It was so popular I thought it must be good. I watched the whole first DVD, 6 episodes. It was boring.

After that, I decided to watch House, so I got the first 6 episodes on DVD. Much more enjoyable. I liked it, except that it made me remember how hard it can be to get medical care when you get lost in the medical insurance game. I don't know if I want to watch more of it. It's a good show, but it gives me Brain Itch.

When the season of Battlestar is finished, I will watch another season of Smallville. I'm starting to mis Clark Kent and John Glover. And I want to see what will happen with Arthur Curry. With a name like that, I thought he would re-appear more often with more significance. Was there a comic book character by that name? I thought it was the name of the boot camp that Johnny Rico went to in Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

So how can I get so much done and still read enormous tomes and watch TV? Simple. Insomnia.

Cat Patrol

The Cat Patrol inspects all new products.

Here they are, hard at work.

This is a new Primitive Sweatshrit receiving the Essence of Cat Stamp of Approval.

This zebra print yardage is a fabric I like too much to actually use(!?) but it makes a nice background, I think.




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Birthday Present.

Dave's Birthday is tomorrow. The cards and gifts have been arriving in the mail. My sister sent something perishable and tasty. It arrived packed in dry ice. The way these guys handle it, the dry ice is a big part of the present!
Joseph still has his Scout uniform on in these pictures. He was at the supermarket selling popcorn for his troop. Friday Night is a good night for popcorn sales. Two scouts did $300 in 3 hours!

I finished up two sweatshirts. I have to photoshop the pictures. I took many, with different levels of flash and different close-ups. Now I have to pick out the best ones and crop them. The last shirt is done with dying, I hope, and is rinsing now. If I don't like it, I may dye it again.

Baby in a Fish Bowl

This is Silver in her sling. The sling has really changed her! I don't know what kind of life she had in her 1-3 years of life before the animal shelter. She had been held, but she didn't like it and was very hard to pick up and hold. Except at the vet, where she got as close as possible to me and was quiet.

The sling was custom made for her by Theresa of BabyinaFishBowl. She makes custom baby slings, but was willing to make one for a rabbit. We emailed back and forth a lot to make sure it was good for Silver. After that, it only took about a week to arrive in CA from NY.
Silver decided the sling was hideous and fought like crazy for about 45 seconds. Then she decided the sling was cozy and settled down for a long (for her) sling rest.

It feels totally different to hold a rabbit who is relaxed and rests her head on your arm, compared to one who is tense and rigid.

The amazing thing is that with only a few sling rests, she has become much easier to handle, even for nail clipping. She is willing to sit on people briefly without the sling, and yesterday, came out of the sling and snooped around a bit before coming back to me to get back in the sling. The sling has totally changed this bun.

Well, not totally, she still bothers the cats.

wasted time

Today I wasted time playing with photoshop. I made Janow's but even bigger, and while I was at it, I made me skinny.

Then I thought "What if I made Janow really long, like a limo?" and after I did that, I figured I would make my butt fit the saddle. That was pretty crazy, so I made Janow's eye bigger in shock.


I'm not very good at this, but I bet I could be if I wasted a whole bunch more time!

Oh Shoot!

I have a saddle pad that I made for Janow. I made the batik myself, on denim, and then built the pad from there. It has two layers of 100% cotton bat and one thin layer of needle felted poly to help give it some hand. I have a picture of Janow with the pad, but it was from a time when he, as well as I, were feeling a bit peeked. SO.......................


I needed another one! Barb was at the barn at the right time and took some pictures for me.


This is our whole photo shoot. In the old days, you figured how many treats you needed for the roll of film. The new digital cams can store many more pictures than that!
You always run out of treats before you run out of memory.

This is the one I picked. Barb positioned herself even with the shoulder, and I did not notice. It would have been better to choose a position even with the hindquarters. It makes the but look bigger and the head look smaller. It doesn't help that Janow has a big Lipizzan head. Photoshop helped, as you can see.

Decide Already!

I worked on this yesterday. It look a while to get it the way I liked it. By taking a picture, I can see how it looks from far away, even if it is flat out on the table.snapsnapsnapsnapsnapsnap