Well if you have ever heard of Houston weather then you may have heard how crazy our so called winters can be. I remember back in the 80's when I was just a kid, how cold the winter could be. We lived in our little efficiency apartment two adults and a kid, the only real furniture we had was a couch and a tea table. At night the floor was transformed into two bed areas. The apartment may have been one small room for all three of us but in the winter it was cozy warm..perfect.
Now the winter days come in spurts of freezing cold. They squeeze between the lingering summer days of heat and humidity that don't seem to want to let go of its grip. The trees go from being covered in green leaves one day to suddenly dumping everything all at once on the unsuspecting lawn and driveways. There's no slow transitional changing of the seasons where you could feel the air begin to feel lighter and cooler; as the trees slowly start to change their color in their leaves from greens to yellows, oranges, reds, and finally brown. Then finally the tree would drop its leaves covering the grass, which was always fun to rake into giant piles that we could then throw ourselves into. I'm nostalgic for those days.
But here we are its December finally, another holiday down and one more to celebrate before the New Years comes creeping around the corner. We have gone from being as low as 34°F to back to 70°F! My closet is confused. My dogs are confused too! We have a little one that we adopted and this is her first winter so I knew that she needed a little sweater to wear when its been cold. She loves to be outside running and playing with the other two it just doesn't seem right that she not be protected as they are. So I decided that I needed to make her a sweater for her. She's so tiny, I didn't really think I would be able to find her something small enough to fit her seeing as I have yet to find her a color and harness that fits her.
Now I've never made doggy clothing before so this was completely new territory for me..heh-heh-heh..a challenge. I thought for a moment about what I didn't like about the clothes for doggies that were out there to choose from. I thought about the things I did like about them. Then I thought about what I would like in their design to make my life easier when it came to putting them on them, plus it had to be a colorful, girly, comfy, and cute! Here is my attempt and for my first attempt, I must say I am happy with the results!
There have been so many changes going on in our lives, that its taken me this long to start this new blog. My hope is to take the time to at least blog every week. I have a tendency to immerse myself in many art projects some of which are for me and my enjoyment and some of which benefit others. You will soon see what I mean once I start posting these projects.
I say that I have "artistic ADD" mainly because I'm all over the place with my art projects.
There are projects that are annual projects, like Halloween! Its not just about making the decorations but there's the costumes too. I don't stick to one style or method of doing things, that would be like sticking to one set emotion for everything we face in life! But I will say that even with so much advance notice and a due deadline on the horizon, I seem to always fall on the same trap of doing things at the last minute. It isn't on my part of procrastination that I fall on this last minute trap! Oh no, other forces beyond my control are at hand. What, you might wonder? Well typically its my daughter who's always changing her mind about what she wants to be that year for Halloween. I'm not the kind of mom that runs to the local Walmart, or Target to get a quick and easy costume..oh no! I like to live dangerously and put all the pressure of making the costume myself. Cost effective..Ha! You can't put a price on originality! Sometimes it's impressively low cost, sometimes its not.
The reason I do it? To enjoy the challenge. To go through my crazy creative process that always threatens to send me over the deep end. There's always some collateral damage that is absorbed by the explosion that occurs in the dining room and spreads sometimes to the living room (some projects have too many working part 😁). Ah but when its all said and done, its so worth the final result!
I will work to post past projects and continue as more arise.
