Night Howls
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@Sarnicad I know the feeling. At least this time I got about four hours of sleep until 03:30 am - whereas the previous two nights I couldn't sleep UNTIL 3 am. This forum is a good place to be awake. And @Zoffiel - you are amazing. I'm going to tell my dog-owning friends. One of them sews.
I used to sew everything. My daughter once said, "My mother is the most rational person I know. Except when sewing goes wrong; then she becomes a frothing-mouthed lunatic." True.
At age 75 with difficult eyesight (and certainly now with peripheral neuropathy ) I've given up. I accept offers of help from keen sewing friends for small tasks, like adding a tuck-under panel at the bottom of a duvet cover or putting charity tea towels onto plain pillow-cases.
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Pajamas for the Hound. She is currently modelling her Nite Jamas. We will get up and put on the Hi Vis Jamas (pictured) or the Rain Jamas for the morning walk. Today's effort will be Hippy Jamas using some fab vintage curtain fabric. Quite the fashion plate, our Chickie. I might channel Lee Lin Chin and do some outrageous ones for special occasions, though the main obj
ect is to keep her warm and minimise the amount of fur that comes off her while she is inside. 1 -
Fantastic ! Chickie would lose body heat with her short hair. Ah, dog hair in the house. We used to have Labradors and when I was working flat out I had a weekly cleaner. He said to me once, "Some day you're going to come home and I will have shaved that dog."
BTW I loved Lee Lin's final outfit - something I would have worn once - and not very long ago.
A friend who has gone to live in Paris in retirement has just had custom rain and warm jackets made for her new B&W corgi bought from England.
I have a photo somewhere of a collie in a yellow child-size raincoat outside a tube station in London from some years ago.0 -
@Flaneuse a yard of dog can shed an acre of hair.
I used to be pretty strict about dogs inside, the "In your bed or get out!!!" sort of attitude. Now the mutt is on my bed, which is a special morning treat. I get up and go to the loo and she follows me back in, waits patiently for me to spread out her blanket and invite her up then she blisses out for as long as it takes for me to read the news and have a cuppa. It's kinda cute though not very hygienic. Thankfully there is no slobber, no barking and I smell worse than she does.2 -
@Zoffiel Nothing like a dog in your bed with the morning cuppa. Reminds me too of a wonderful cartoon I saw decades ago in a magazine. Host checking a guest into a B&B room, where three dogs grace the top of the bed. Host says, "It's pretty chilly tonight. I'll throw a couple more dogs on the bed for you."1
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@InkPetal
Your rollerskates were better than mine. Rainbow colours with matching accessories! Back in the 60's (before you were born!) I was the envy of our street. I got a pair of rollerskates for Christmas. The skates strapped onto your tennis shoes and were adjustable so they fit from the smallest kid to me! I gained lots of friends that summer. Worn them out skating up and down the tarry bitumen road that was bubbled in the 40 degree summers.
@Sister
My mum was also a good seamstress but she lacked the patience to teach me. My Aunty Joyce taught me on my mum's Singer Treadle Machine. Aunty Joyce was like your mum. Could draft a pattern and sewed anything from day dresses to wedding gowns. Mum could tat and made beautiful tatted lace. But she lacked patience with me. And so the art of tatting died with her. I think the biggest problem was tatted knots had to slip and dad taught "blossum" (that's what he called me) that knots are not to slip.
@Zoffiel may we have a photo of the dog pyjamas. Now are they pjs for the dog or pjs for you with dog prints all over them? Photo please.
Tried sleeping through the night. Got to 3 am. Made myself lie there and so spent the remaining hours listening to the tawny frogmouths hunt on the front verandah. Fell asleep at the crack of dawn! Commonsense tells me to get up and do something constructive but the sewing / craft room is 50 metres from the house and there are slithery creatures out there that are difficult to see in the dark.
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Night 1 of the melatonin experiment was a disaster. I woke up eight times. Going for a walk with the dog shortly to get some sunshine.0
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oh no Kmakm walk will be good for you .....0
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Oh, and maybe some Shiraz?
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A friend of mine swears by the hot glue gun.0
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How are the t-shirts going. @kmakm found out about quality. I know you were going on a hunt before your hand and foot slowed you down. Spanner in the works perhaps, but do you think it would be too mych bother to find a 'ladies fit' option too? Now that I have a flat tummy after DIEP, I feel like rockin' that a bit sometimes! Or a tank top option - sports back style. I'm a pain in the arse - I know it!
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