A bag for me???

I recently received my 40th custom dog bag order!!!  I started making them in August and have had a steady stream of orders coming in.  I love making each one and really appreciate the e-mails I have received saying 'you captured my dog perfectly'!  I have met some wonderful people and felted a lot of really cool dogs! 

but, I didn't have a bag of my own...

none of my dogs had been captured in felt...

I had plans to meet my friend, Kristine, up in Portland and go to the big dog show yesterday, so on Tuesday I made the decision to take some time and make a bag for myself.  The big choice, what dog?  In the end, Paisley won.

Who could resist that face?

My special girl :)

Thanks, Joan!

I received an award from Joan over at Mudranch awhile ago…and I have been so busy creating that I am just now blogging about it! If you also follow my farm blog, then you may be thinking that you are seeing double! I was lucky to be awarded this award by two very creative ladies within a couple days of each other - thanks!

I already posted who my favorite authors are on my other blog, so I am posting 7 of my favorite felting/fiber books on this blog...

1. Uniquely Felt by Christine White

2. Felt by Robyn Steel-Stickland

3. In Sheep's Clothing by Nola Fournier and Jane Fournier

4. Wool Pets by Laurie Sharp and Kevin Sharp

5. Felted Bags, Boots & Other Things by Cendrine Armani

6. Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts: Fuzzy Felted Friends by Saori Yamazaki

7. How to Raise Sheep by Philip Hasheider (features some of my pictures!)

Now for the 7 blogs I would like to award…

1. Mud Ranch's Mercantile

2. Meridian Jacobs

3. Felting in Fibrespace

4. Thistle Downs Wool Design

5. Ben McFuzzylugs

6. Skylar's Candy Clips

7. The Funky Felter

and now for those that would like to see what I have been busy creating!

The dogs are custom orders and the others are for the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival that is sneaking up REALLY fast :)

My two worlds have collided!

I feel like I have two different worlds at times - my fiber and my photography. Both of these endeavors give me the freedom to stay home with our son and I feel very fortunate to have this flexibility. This summer has been very busy for my photography - I took over 7,000 photos in August at various dog events!

I took a few of my felted bags to the events and the response has been wonderful - resulting in a lot of custom orders!

Irish Wolfhound - still available

I had a couple orders for Rhodesian Ridgebacks.

A gal ordered this bag for one of her friends. It is an Australian Kelpie watching over his little sheep.

This is an Ibizan named Dina. She is such a pretty girl...

and here she is in felt!

Here is an Italian Greyhound that I am currently working on and still on my list to do are a long-haired standard dachshund, tan and white whippet, scottish deerhound, borzoi, black and white silken windhound, another ibizan, pharoah hound, and a blue merle aussie with a couple sheep.

I have created a Custom Tote Bag page on my website and you can see other bags and ordering information there.