I felt inspired after taking that photo of Skits sleeping in his kennel yesterday.  So I did a layout of it.

Verdant, Tagged Alpha, Grungy Frames II All other elements Easter Mega Kit coming soon Jen Maddocks Designs

Skits and Baxter play together pretty much all the time…until Baxter has had enough.  Even then Skits just doesn’t know when to quit. ;D  Here they are playing.  I’m very thankful that Baxter is so tolerant of Skits.  I actually think he kinda likes him. ;D

I also have a new Freebie for you.  You can find it in my sidebar and also in my store.  Enjoy!

We started putting Skits in his kennel the second day we brought him home.  I know some people think putting dogs in kennels is cruel but in life sometimes it is necessary.  After all…dogs are den animals!  There have been times when I just cannot watch him and do other things and it is for his own safety that he needs to go in there.  When we go places (ie leave the house) both dogs go in their kennels.  When we are home, for the majority of the time he is free to roam where ever he wants.  I like starting dogs young in their kennels.  We started Baxter when he was a pup and now his kennel is a place of refuge.  He loves going in there.  He goes in there all the time…especially when he wants to escape from Skits! ;D  Well, now Skits is starting to love his kennel…and I’m glad.  We leave the door to it open so he can go in there when ever he wishes.  He’s starting to go in there and explore.  Now he is starting to go in there and take naps!  So cool!

An update on me…I’ve been feeling better the last few days.  I went to see a Pulmonologist a week or so ago and he wants a bunch of tests run to get to the bottom of what is up with my lung/persistent pneumonia.  I have a CT scan scheduled and some breathing tests for next week.  Tests, tests and more tests.  Hopefully we will get to the bottom of things.  Meantime I’m feeling better and able to do more than I have in months.  Thanks for the prayers and well wishes that have been sent my way!  I’ve felt them!  Please continue.  I’m not out of de woods yet! ;D

I’ve had several requests for recent photos of Skits.  I’ve been a little bad about keeping up with daily photos in general.  So much going on.  So here I am honoring that request…

He is just the funniest dog ever.  I mean he is full of it.  And the only thing that saves him is that he is so darn cute!  Seriously he really is a good dog…or I think he will eventually turn into one.  I took him to the vet last week for his shots and he was the best behaved little doggie ever!  Everyone loved him there.  The vet said he looked great.  He said his personality was fantastic.  He has great days with potty training…then the next day it’s like wth???  I don’t get it.  See…I told you…you forget…or else you wouldn’t get one again!  He is hilarious in everything he does and he makes us laugh.  He wants to be everywhere Baxter is and wants everything Baxter has and we can’t decide if he wants to be dominant or just likes Baxter a lot and just wants to be with him and emulate him.  Baxter is extremely tolerant…which is a good thing…he’s such a great dog!

I’ve got two new products in the store today.

You can find both in my store here.

I’ve got three new products in the store today.

You can find them all in my store here.

Digital Design Essentials has a new kit out called Sweet Tart.  Oh it is so cute!  You can find it here.  It is on sale for only $3.99 until Feb 5th.  What a deal!

Here’s the layout that I did with it…

If you are planning on continuing with Capture 365 then here’s another template for the month of February.

You can find it in my store here.

As promised I have my January Calendar Template completed and ready to show you.  I had to fudge a little and plug in paper in some of the squares and put photos on days different days because I did not take photos every day.  I just couldn’t being sick so much.  But I didn’t let it stop me from completing my task.  I don’t want to let a silly think like being sick get in the way of my life.

January Calendar, Button Up Pink, Valentine Hearts, Be Mine, Winter Wonder II, Winter Pink, Woodsy, Amore, Lavender Love all Jen Maddocks Designs

Here’s another layout I did a week or so ago about Ava.  She’s just growing up so fast and looking so old to me.  Especially in this one particular photo.  I wanted to scrap it.

Template No 21, Be Mine, Joy, Winter Wonder II, Valentine Hearts all Jen Maddocks Designs, brads and ribbon Cozy Comfy Fall DDE

I’ve added a new mini kit to the store today called Lavender Love.  Click here for details.

I was awake for much of the night last night.  Cause I took one of my new meds, which is actually one of the old ones, late last night in the hopes of kicking this thing, whatever it is, in the ass butt.  However I forgot that one of these meds winds you up tighter than a drum.  So I there I was fully awake last night.  Save for the fact that I am physically not well I could have done “I don’t know, something amazing I guess.”  But then there’s Skits.

Back up.

So I’m not recovered.  Yeah I know, I know.  Same old song and dance.  Only.  THIS time I’m kinda hoping for the same old song and dance.  Cause it doesn’t seem to be staying the same.  It seems to be getting worse.  I’ve been having horrible pain in my lung the last week and I had a follow up x-ray yesterday that showed an increase in the infection in my lung.  Great.  I’ve been worried about this pain in my lung.  It doesn’t feel quite right.  When does any pain ever do?  The doctor called me last night, which I thought was kinda unusual for her, and told me there was an increase in the infection and so I asked her could this be something else we are dealing with.  Yeah.  It could.  But let’s not go down that road.  Trust me.  I’ve already been there.  At least in my mind.  ;D

So I’m laying there last night on the couch cause that’s where I’ve been the last two months.  It’s just easier when your sick.  Plus its comfy.  And its the diseased couch…right Wendy?  See whenever anyone in our family gets sick they get relegated to a certain couch.  I guess just whichever one they end up falling on when they become ill.  Then that couch becomes the “diseased couch” or the sick couch.  Right now that one happens to be mine.  Which is fine with me.  I like my couch pretty well.  Everyone agrees it is the most comfy.  But no one will come near it when it is relegated to the “diseased” couch.  Yay!  I get it all to myself.

So anyway…I’m laying there thinking I could get some serious design work done or something but Skits is sleeping with me.  And I don’t want to wake him.  But that was the point all along.  That he was supposed to be my dog.  Every night I would look over and see Corey with Baxter and whine that I didn’t have a dog to cuddle with me.  ;D  So that…and a host of other reasons…we got Skits.  And he IS my dog.  And he does sleep with me.  Which is fine.  Except when I don’t sleep, which is probably more than the average person, and I want to get up in the middle of the night and write or create.  And I can’t.  Cause I finally have a dog.  That is mine.  Sigh.  He sure is warm.  For such a small animal.

Speaking of Skits…some observations of him of late…he has gigantic paws but he’s not going to be a big dog, Westies aren’t big so he looks kinda funny being a small dog with big feet.  His legs are also short so he has to run twice as fast and jump twice as hard to do things or to keep up with Baxter.  He doesn’t walk…he swaggers.  It is strange having a dog with a tail.  Baxter’s is docked.  Skits isn’t.  So it is cute seeing or feeling a wagging tail.  He has black toenails.  Which really stand out against white hair.  He is starting to ask to go out now.  We are hoping that he is getting potty training.  Just when we think he does…he has an accident.

Tonight we turned on the fireplace.  He has been growling at his reflection in the window panes.  Tonight he was barking at the flames.  Weirdo.

I’ve got some new products in my store.

You can find them here.