The Princess and the Frog

Well I was at it again today.  Little Fat Book Club isn't for a month but I thought I would get a head start on it. Can you guess the Theme... Well the theme is frogs, which at first I was thinking what am I going to do with frogs?  Then yesterday while blog hopping (cause I can) I found this gorgeous image from some variation of "The Princess and the Frog"  I cut the image out and then "painted" the gold areas of the image with gold smooch.  Then I took a nice piece of paper from a Prima Marketing mat stack (it was the Alice in Wonderland themed one) I altered the paper with swipes of gold paint from Ranger.  I then stamped a Fancy Pants stamp in Purple Pansy ink (CTMH), then I took green smooch and traced all the stems on the stamped image and colored the edges of the buds in the same color.  The last thing I did with the stamped image was color all the "buds" and centers of the flowers in white smooch.  I stamped butterflies (one from Fancy Pants and two from Tim Holtz) in embossing ink (Distress from Ranger) and embossed them one was in a red/orange color the other two in purple.  Then I stamped what I would consider a Queens Anne's lace like flower in embossing powder then embossed that in white.  I glued down my princess and then foam dotted my frog.  Lastly I embossed inked the words "The Princess and The Frog" and embossed in gold embossing powder.  I think this side came out perfect.  I'm going to use another image of some cute vintage frogs, but for now I'm done for the night it is almost time for Big Bang theory!! I can't wait.

As for life at this moment I'm good.  I passed my final certification exam!  I was extremely nervous and trying not to think about it for the past month because at the time on top of trying to study I was dealing with the death of my ferret and another one being sick.  So I didn't think I did well.  Now I can sub which will be nice.  It looks like things are starting to go my way again.  Stormy my sicky ferret is doing a little better.  She is eating hard food again, she sleeps a lot.  I'm not ready to reintroduce her to the rest of the clan cause she is no where near a hundred percent and I want still watch what she is eating.  Other wise it is hard to see what she is eating compared to three other ferrets lol.  They can be a handful as a group, but I love them. Pin It Now!

St Patty's day Twinces

Here are my St. Patty's Day Twincies I did for a Vintage Room Swap.  I wasn't sure I was going to get them done because I was feeling kinda blocked.  I was a little concerned because the images that I orignally printed were kinda being used by other ladies in the group, I ended up scrapping my orignal game plan and went a totally other way.  Of course aside from one.  I really think I like what I came up with.  This project was kind of a break for me to get my mind off things.  Sara's sister Stormy has taken a turn for the worse and most of my day was spend force feeding her a liquid diet.  It is not fun to force feed a ferret.  I have tried ensure and pedilyte softening her food, just water, chicken baby food she is not interested.  I have do to what I have to do to keep her comftable.  I have a bad feeling that with in the next couple days Stormy will pass too.  It makes me cry just thinking about it but there isn't much I can do.  I have give her and Sara a safe and happy home.  I'm not sure how their started but I do that the last part of their lives have been good! 

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Happy to report

That this little cutie has joined my little ferret family.  This past week has been tough on me and the babies.  I have been watching them very carefully trying to decide what to do.  I started looking at babies online I entertained the idea of bring in rescues again, but its so tough not know there past health history that I didn't want to go there again.  So I dragged my dad to a couple pet stores and ended up holding this little guy and falling in love.  He is 5 months old and God he's handsome.  And I'm using the word little loosely he is HUGE!! He is like I said 5 months old and double the size of his big brother JJ (who is full size).  I just love his size I know that's dorky but I'm not sure why I do.  I guess its because I know he is able to handle himself.  I have a house full of animals as many of you know and I sometimes worry about the bigger animals hurting my ferrets, so I feel like I don't have to worry so much about him.  If I remember correctly JJ was only 6 inches or so long when he came home.  He has already changed the mood in the cage/my room.  Stormy protected him from Penny (my 2 year old beagle) she bit Penny square on the forhead.  I haven't seen Stormy move like that ever (let alone use her teeth).  Bandit my oldest ferret doesn't seem care either way.  JJ on the other I was worried about I have never had two males at the same time. And JJ wasn't been very nice.  I haven't had extremely playful ferret before my girls are kind mellow and JJ just kinda follow suit, but the baby came in he has been biting him and pinning him and talking like you wouldn't believe.  I have never heard him go on like this before.  So at first I would grab by the scruff of his neck and let the baby get away.  I woke early this morning to him doing the same thing in the cage so I spilt the cage in two sections so that the baby could sleep.  Then today I went my room to check on them cause I have been letting them have the run of my room lately and I found JJ and the baby curled up together in the base of my curtain.  Too CUTE for words!! I don't think I have a thing to worry about.  A baby boy was just what we needed.  I did question it for a minute after I got home.  I thought it would make me feel better but after a little while I felt a little empty, but after a little cuddle time with the baby I felt a lot better.  We bonded.  I have a new cuddler.  The cuddler doesn't have a name yet.  I'm leaning toward Archer...Cooper...Xavier...or Xander.  I haven't decided yet and I want it be just the right name.

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Well I actually created something

Well I did some creating yesterday and today.  I have been thinking about a canvas piece for awhile inspired by my friend Peggy who quoted Tim Holtz in saying "Never Apologize for Your Art".  I got a new book last week that showed how to create wire letters and I formed the letters I needed for the piece.  I bought some flat canvas boards from walmart the other day and painted it a dark and light green and stared at the letters sitting on the green canvas for a few days.  So as it sat I started thinging about some other projects that I need to work on.  So I move on to the LFB page above which I like but it doesn't have the pazz I wanted.  So that is sitting on the shelf till I figure it out and I went back to the canvas today with beeswax on the brain.  I love the medium!! So I put a sewing pattern over the greens which gave me the aged look I love.  Cut up a page of mini collages from K& Company.  Stamped my new little girl on to sewing pattern and used one of my paper roses and some do dads and placed my words in the wax.   I love this reminder piece!! I will look at it and remember that my art is my art and I should embrace the good with the not so good and continue creating.  In other news I have been spending a lot of free time with the ferrets cause they need it.  I have given them weekend to rest, so that I can start all over with play time tomorrow.  Here are a couple pictures from play time last week.  JJ the lighter ferret likes to steal toys and hide them under the bed and I guess size doesn't matter.  I bought them a fun toy that is a big lady bug wtih a pocket for them to hide in/sleep in and some balls that make noise and then there is a bar that goes over it that has a couple toys hanging down.  JJ just love to take it by the attached toys and try to pull it under the bed to hide it.  I play tug-a-war with him.  Its nice bonding time.  Stormy is the other ferret picture she hasn't been doing well in the loss of her sis.  She plays for a little while and then climbs up into the cage or finds a place in my room to go back to sleep.  I feel really bad for her but I pull her out of her hiding spot and try my hardest to get her to play for awhile more.  I last for a few rounds of this before I give up and let her go to sleep.  What can I do?? There are no pictures of my oldest ferret Bandit because she is naked due to anderline diesase. She lost all her hair but she functions like normal she is way to old for a ferret to have the surgery required to fix it, so I figure what's not broke don't fix it.  So we are still hurting over the loss of Saratoga Hollner (yes her full proper name was Saratoga because we got her from Albany Saratoga Speedway at an adoption Clinic) but I think we will heal and maybe someday soon someone new will enter the ferret cage.  Its just not going to be too soon.

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It's a sad day here

Well this is one of those life moments I hate.  I am a proud ferret mama each of my four ferrets mean the world to me and it hurts me to watch them in pain.  Over the last year or so Sara one of my rescue ferrets has been having seizures that slowly lasted longer and longer and happen more and more frequently.  To be honest I think it was in the last few months that they really started happening.  I suspected she had some form of cancer and decided that I would just let her be where she wanted to be with her ferret siblings in the safety of her own home instead of letting a vet poke and prod at her.  I went through that with my first ferret a few years ago and didn't really want to do it again.  As soon as I took him to the vet he went down hill fast (and by fast I mean from normal to extremely ill in the matter of a day).  So Sara's seizures were handled well on my bed as I thought about wether or not I was doing the right thing.  Yesterday was the worest one yet about 2 to 3 hours she just laid on my bed unable to move with off and on seizures.  I made her comfortable and cried through most of it, telling her it was ok and that her big brother was waiting for her in heaven.  She snapped out of it wanted to run around so I returned her to her siblings to do what she wanted.  I went to the store and she was fine before I left, then I can home let all of them out of the cage to play and they had a ball at the end of play time Sara and Bandit decided to take a nap and curled up in a blanket on the floor.  I returned all four ferrets to the cage and fussed over them a little before going to my aunt's house for tea with my parents.  I came home and checked again Sara seemed fine so I let her be and went to watch tv on the couch as I do every night.  Around 11o'clock I went in to my room to get ready for bed and before doing anything I checked on Sara... I picked her up out of the cage.  She seemed like she was sleeping (she usually seems like dead weight when sleeping)  I laid her on the floor and just stared at her to see if she was breathing and sadly she was not.  I found a box placed a towel in it and laid her as comfy as I could inside closed the lid and got ready for bed with tears in my eyes.  I have been wrestling with the idea of bringing her to the vet but didn't want to make the choice for her.  She needed to go on her terms (in my mind).  I slid the box under the cage for the night before going to bed I checked one more time I thought maybe I was crazy maybe she was breathing I just didn't see it or I blinked but I wasn't.  My baby was gone.  I of course have mixed feelings I'm sad to lose a member of my family and a dear friend, but I was happy that she was no longer suffering.  I am going to share some pictures of my dear Sara on her last day curled up on my bed with me she was tired, it was during one of her good moments and anyone that knows ferrets knows that they don't really stay still long enough to take pictures.  She looked so cute curled up in her little ball on my bed.  I could help but want a picture.  Pin It Now!

Not an Art Entry Just a Life Entry

As some of my close friends know I'm a Ferret Momma and very proud of it. It all start when I was a kid and my Dad's ferret came to live with us. The story is that before my dad and mom were together my dad had two ferrets Harley and Davidson. Well Davidson passed away and Dad moved some where he couldn't have Harley so she went to live with a friend. That friend at one point had to move to a place he couldn't have Harley so she came to live with us. She was my first Ferret experience I had never seen a ferret and didn't even know you could have such a cool pet (at the time you were supposed to have a license for them). Well Harley passed away after a while and we moved from place to place and I kind forgot about ferrets with having a dog then two dogs then a bird and some fish. Well in my senior year in high school I won $100 for a poem I wrote and I decided with my winnings I would buy this really cool cocktail at the local pet store. It was albino and my cocktail was lonely since the passing of her partner. Well the store wouldn't sell it to me cause it was ill and they wanted to make sure it was healthy before selling it. So I start wandering through the pet store and came to the glass encloser that they kept the ferrets in. And the enjoyment that I had with Harley came back when I saw them. One male jumped up at the window and it was love at first site. We bought Spunky and all the supplies and he came home with us. Well that same year I was bugging my parents about getting another one and close to Christmas they surprised me with Bandit a small but feisty female and the two became best buds. Well about 6 years later Spunky had a cut that just wouldn't go away he kept bugging it and starching at it and finally I decided to bring him to the vet. The vet said he had a tumor and that I could do A or B. Put him through treatment or put him down. Treatment was extremely expensive and painful for him and there was no guarantee. Well after seeing the vet I decided to get a second opinion I made an appointment for the next day. In the time between the two appointments Spunky took a huge turn for the worse. He couldn't eat, drink or got the bathroom. He just laid there and did nothing. Well we went the next appointment and the Doctor told us the tumor was the least of our worries. He now had a kidney stone blocking his urethra. She had never done the surgery on a ferret before, but was willing to try. Try... I knew what I was going to do, because the last thing I wanted was for him to go through some painful surgery with some lady that had no idea what she was doing. I made the choice to put him to sleep. I couldn't bare putting through all that pain for my benefit. I was crying so hard and had my parent who really don't like my ferrets crying too. I will never forget that day it was the week of my birthday. Anyway I had promised Bandit her brother would come home. In a sense I broke that promise. I didn't want to replace Spunky the idea came from my parents. They told me I had to bring someone home for Bandit or she would miss Spunky and go into depression and I might lose her too. So I went to the pet store and picked out another male I named Him JR or Spunky Jr to honor Spunky. And I think he has done a wonderful job taking care of Bandit. Well since then I have added to rescue ferret sister to the mix Sara and Stormy and I have quite the ferret family. Now I have been really debating because Bandit is sick she has a tumor that just effects her back legs and she lost all her hair. Its normal with ferrets and there is a surgery to correct it but it is not suggested for ferrets her age, so my only option is putting her to sleep which is very difficult its like losing her brother all over again and she lives a pretty normal life she sleeps, eats, plays like normal just has trouble getting around so for the moment I'm being selfish and keeping her alive, but as soon as she seems like she is suffering I will do what's right and put her to sleep. I gave her a bath today and did her nails as well as her brother and sisters. It just makes me question if I'm doing what is right for her or not. I hope I'm being a good mom. Sorry for this long winded post I just needed to vent. Pin It Now!