One week in the life of my strawberry

Sneak Peek

I'm working on an extra special bear at the moment. His little head is balancing on a roll of sticky tape, staring at me, begging me to finish him as I type this. So I'll keep it quick.

Here's a little teaser... and a strange one at that! lol

New Guinea Pigs - Jasper and Milo

I finished two more sweet little mohair guinea pigs today. This time they are two boys - Jasper and Milo. (I have no idea why these two looked like boys to me... just happened that way. I wonder what would happen if I put them in the same 'cage' as Patch and Clover... :P)

I got some lovely photos of them both out in our backyard. For some reason the grass looked an odd shade of green. Almost a blue-green. But i think that was just because we were in the shade... Jasper has the lovely long wiggly fur - kind of like a Texel or an Alpaca breed guinea pig. While Milo is more of the traditional smooth-coat tri-colour.

I have some big ideas for little baby guinea pigs too. So stay tuned for more cuteness!

Backyard picnic

Chelsea was going crazy inside this afternoon, so i packed up all the bear-making stuff and some of her toys and we set up camp in the backyard. I plonked her right in the middle of our rather large picnic blanket - but she still managed to find her way off the edge of it, and into the muddy grass! Her nice little romper is now in the washing machine in a (probably in vain) attempt to get it clean again!


I should probably change the title of this blog to 'The Inner World of Chelsea' instead! Seems like it would be more appropriate! :P Nevermind. I did get a heap of bears drawn up on saturday night while Chelsea and Mark slept. A bit of Harry Potter on the TV in the background, and i was inspired like i haven't been in a long time. So now the slow process is cutting and pinning them all out. I have one that i sewed while Chels had her morning sleep today that i'll try those polymer clay eyelids on tonight.








So bear stuff is happening. Just slowly, and in the background at the moment. More bear photos will come soon enough!

Our Garden

One of the positives of having a pet-free back yard is that we can start to fix it up a bit. For the past three years we've kind of let it just do what it wants. The shrubs and bushes have gone crazy and the guinea pigs had little tracks all through the undergrowth. I had a quick weed and 'stocktake' of our current plants this afternoon and thought i'd share this photo of our pink rose bush. My mum gave it to us as a house warming present when we first moved in, and now (thanks to hap-hazard pruning)it's taller than me!