Saturday Yikes...Oh Where did the Week GO !

First we got another amazing package from Saundra Campbell....wonderful models ...three flip flops...two on 13st... Minnnie the Mermaid and the Seahorse...along with my favorite the Chili Pepper ff on 18st...Saundra did a wonderful job and they are too cute....below is a picture of the mermaid... Mr. Squiggee has a picture of the other two...on his blog....
above is the second painting of EMILY...the first was for Emily when she is older...Emily was spelled out in perfume bottles ,shoes and pearls...girlie stuff......this one is for now...she is only around 19 months old...the customer now has this child covered to her teenage years...lol...I have been painting all sorts of stuff this week and we have been hard at it updating some Squiggee catalogs...when we first started to send out catalogs , there were only a handful of pages...it now is up to 85...so I have been sorting, printing, packaging, and doing some needed office work..along with my painting......we have a steady flow of mail go out of here and since the post office has gone wild with their charges, I have changed some things trying to make postage as fair as possible...I spent almost an hour on line yesterday filling out forms and trying to get a handle on sending a catalog to Canada...now I am not considered a stupid person , but the forms and questions....you would have thought I was trying to smuggle something really dreadful into Canada...and FYI.... why can't they just ask a question in terms a human can understand...what a bunch of convoluted gobblebly gook....and the prices to send priority...forget it...I finally picked first class, the forms still complicated, but I managed to struggle through them...but it this kind of thing that makes me mean and very stroppy....lol...
and to top off my day Omar has taken to sneaking up in my lap while i paint....he is not a pocket pooch !...yesterday I was having lunch at the drawing table and he managed to flip over my plate on the floor with my burritos sour cream and hot sauce...yuck and messy...luckily nothing got on the needlepoint..my first concern and like most dog owners we have a hefty supply of fantastic, rags and carpet cleaner...and added bonus some of the hot sauce Tabasco got on my paint cart wheel and when I moved it it made a skid mark ...I know...i should never should have been having lunch while near my work...lol...at least it is never dull around here...
big news i have bought a new painting apron...thrills...when my present one gets to the point of looking like the board of health might just intervene...it is time to change...i will take a picture of the old one, it will make you cringe...

SCARY BISCUITS !

At the top of my blog you will notice one of Omar's prized possession's...Mean Kitty!!!..now mind you this was a dog toy a friend gave us when Bubbles was a pup, and Squiggee wasn't even born yet...Squiggee will be 12 in November and Bubbles has been in doggie heaven for two years...No dog would touch it until Omar entered the scene...he loves mean Kitty and shakes it vigorously and, as you can see, has proceeded to chew the top of the ears off...they only bad part of this , of course, is you have to make sure that mean kitty is picked up off the floor when day is done...in a semi dark room , one night, mean kitty looked like a large spider , laying in wait to get me...I didn't have my glasses on and I had been told by a friend that you see tarantulas crossing the street sometimes here in AZ...being deathly afraid of spiders, seeing mean kitty witout my glasses on, scared the crap out of me....once I figured out it wasn't a spider and could breath again, I was temped to get rid of the toy, but Omar does love it...so there you go....lol....
The older I get the crazier I seem.....am I alone in this ? Gremlins?

Something New !

Squiggeeland always keeps moving and trying to make the most of a design....this little two sided Santa is pretty close to the basics of Christmas...when we were kids...starting in early January my mother would remind us of Santa's list...and in the back part of our minds we dreaded being on the naughty list...lol...of course a whole year was almost impossible to be all good...but according to my mother if you slipped you could always redeem yourself with being extra good and this would insure you a place on the nice list...as long as our goodness out weighed your badness...isn't that just like the logic most mothers have !!!
I have posted the nice side and of course Mr. Squiggee has the Naughty side...hummmm, I wonder why ...lol
the Santa is on 13st and stands 7 1/2" high....

Omar just loves his Mardi Gras Beads !

A bunch of our Squiggee stitchers are from the South....Texas and Lousiana....we have been blessed with a fun bunch group of girls that have a great sense of humor....Ronnie from Cajun land sent us two sets of Mardi Gras beads along with model Carmen Flamingo that she worked for display...well Omar who absolutely hates to wear anything on his body...loves these beads...the first day they arrived and I slipped one set on him...he went crazy running around the house shaking his body...and with that the beads made a wonderful sound like an old lady shaking her mass of charm bracelets...so I put the second set on him..... with that he trotted up and down the hallway...prancing and shaking ...they made him happy and excited...a closet Queen you say...maybe...lol....
anyway...he wore then all day and we finally had to remove them because he was dragging them in his dinner..........he would wear them every day but I'm afraid the shaking would drive me crazy....and besides they are plastic and we have to take care ...they are tucked away and ready to celebrate the end of the Mardi Gras doings....after all Omar is a french poodle ...I rest my case !!

As Promised !

Above I have posted Mr. Squiggee's attire from the Phoenix show....less the pants ,that were just a kahki colored linen....he cut quite a dashing figure, along with his flamingo tote...after all not every man can pull off a pink tee shirt and these shoes...lol....
Mr. squiggee has all the poop on my lastest custom piece..two westies......

i GET bUSY !

Sometimes if you notice I get terribly busy and fall behind in my blogging....but do not fear I will get a picture of the rest of Mr. Squiggee's outfit that he wore to market while sporting his flamingo tote!!!..
above is a very nice pussy cat custom piece i just finished for a shop in NY.....it is 12sq. on 13st....
cat's always look like they are plotting something...deep in thought...unlike dogs that rarely look like they have a thought in their head...lol...the exception...terriers !
today I start a pair of Westies for the same shop on 18st...you have to be careful and not too heavy handed with white dogs....enough so you can tell the dog but not enough to make the dog look heavy and stiff...
It is grey today and I hate painting on grey days...it rained last night and is cold today...OK people enough .......where oh where is that hot AZ air......please....................hurry...

Fanny can now relax !

What a relief...here in Squiggeeland...Everyone was in a flap....there were wild rumors that the Flamingo bag Mr. Squiggee was sporting in Phoenix ...had a mate ...and Carole also was sporting the same bag...too scary...the two are already like sisters separated at birth....but now we can all relax because the bags are not the same...it was almost more than I could stand.......
xoxoxoxox
Squiggee ...lmao...check out Mr. Squiggee's Blog...a picture of his bag is on display...tomorrow I will show you the rest of his phoenix attire...you might need a stiff drink or coffee at least before checking my blog...oh well !!!!