Busy Busy Busy

Things have been a bit hectic and a whole lot of fun as of late.  I got to go to the Wisconsin State Fair twice! I went the first time for opening day for $2 for donating canned goods.  I went that day because it was really the only non weekend day that my hubby could go before he started his new job (which was this Monday.)  While I was there I saw 2 booths that sold exclusively dog stuff, and one had corgi things in almost everything they sold! In the end I got to get a corgi hand towel and a corgi flag.   They were soooo cute!
I ended up having to go again to the State Fair because it was dog day on Monday, the day he started work. So my mother decided to go with me. :)  There were no corgis there, sadly, but there were some basenjis, many cute malmutes, a Great Pyrnees, and some hillarious greyhounds in swimsuits. There were also TONS of German Shepherds there. They had coursing, dog dock diving, and a doggy wedding.  They actually had multiple dog weddings, but I really couldn't handle both the Elvis impersonator and  the bad microphone at the same time.

(The dog State Fair images were taken with my father's camera. It's an excellent cam corder, however, it seems to have issues in metering light.  Oh well, didn't have to carry my bulky one in the heat this way.)

  There were some impressive jumps, and some funny, why would I jump if there's a ramp right there? :)
  There was a street fair on Friday I got to go to, and it seems like everyone and their dog were out (happy happy joy joy!)

 I also got to eat at a Friday's at Miller Park Saturday and got to go to the Bristol Renaissance festival on Sunday.  Sadly the Bristol Ren Faire doesn't allow dogs like the MN one does, but I digress, it was a blast even if it was very hot.  I got the last item to complete my garb.

I'm the elf.  I got a Felix bodice after pining over bodices made by that shop for 7 years.  I've been told that I now look like Dark (evil) Zelda.  Somehow, that just makes me giddy.  Either way, even with the rain it was tons of fun and I get to go back Labor Day weekend!

Finally, now with hubby working again, I've got my ambition back to do projects.  I remade his Aperture Laboratories mug after it got thoroughly shattered after the latest set of moves.

It's not perfect, but considering it's not done by a machine I'd say it's not half bad. The last image is the original one that I tried to Gorilla glue back together that shifted during the bonding process.

And then I turned Nyan corgis into an apron.  I'm debating on selling it.  I probably will, but that would be after I set up the new site. I'm thinking of moving from Etsy to a different site that doesn't charge listing fees.  Either that, or I will pop that and a few other items into a friend's actual brick and mortar shop. I have to make more items before I decide.

Pocket Puppy Closeup

Thank you for reading through this long winded post. :)

~Lumie

Some things I have found

So on Sunday we opened the sales fliers and right on top was Shopko with this:

 So now I have this as a binder for my cake class.  I am such a sucker.

Then I went to Gnome Games out in Green Bay, WI and was perusing merchandise while hubby was hanging out with a friend.  I spotted puzzles and didn't really think anything of interest was in it.  I accidentally bumped one off the shelf and right behind it was this:

I let out a loud squee that alerted the staff and one member started suggesting corgi books to me.  Aren't fellow nerds great? :)

I'm going to end up putting this puzzle together, gluing it, and framing it. :D

~Lumie

Sir Corgreud Esquire the 3rd

My hubby has a new job!  AND I don't have to move!  HUZZZAH!  I also get to go to the Wisconsin State Fair this week as well as get to go to the Bristol Ren. Faire this Sunday!  No lovely doggies like at the MN one, but still fun.

In other news, I will be starting cake decorating class tomorrow.  I figured I'm trained as a sculptor, I should try to do cakes.

~Lumie

Nyan Corgi Colored

Nyan Corgi

All Nyan Corgis fly around in chocolate covered donuts and have rainbow sprinkles.  I'll be coloring this soon.

An interesting view

So I picked up a new book today called "How Dogs Think" by Stanley Coren.

 I will admit that I was lured by the fact that it has a corgi on the cover.  However, I had somewhat recently finished reading a book called "The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs"

which I had won from "Life With Dogs" and had found I liked.  At one point in my life and for many years I was debating on doing something with biology and doing something with art since they both interested me to about the same degree.  I chose art, which at points I regret, but then realized that just biology probably would have done about the same, if maybe a bit less, for me. But I digress...

So I have gotten about 40 pages into How Dogs Think and it has been discussing how they view the world.  I find it rather interesting that due to what kinds of cones they have in their eyes, they really don't see the color red. Red comes up as black/grey.  So I was looking through the throngs of images in my corgi Google Reader feed and found this image:

from http://sugarhut.tumblr.com/post/7405698572/zomg-a-corgi-at-the-end-of-a-rainbow-and-on-a .  I wanted to reblog it as she prefers people to do, but since she is on tumbler and I am not, I really couldn't. Sugarhut, if you want me to remove this, I will.  Back to the subject at hand, seeing as it is a rainbow corgi picture, I couldn't help but to try to somewhat replicate what a dog sees.  This is what I came up with:

You will also note that  I shifted the image out of focus.  Most dogs have about 20/75 visual acuity so even this might not be blurry enough.  Most dogs see you best if you're moving actually, since they evolved to hunt prey and their eyes are really only used to confirm what their nose and ears have already told them.

So if you want to take anything from this post, buy your dogs blue and white balls for fetch in the grass and yellow Frisbees with blue or white circles on top for fetch, because they will see it better.  Neon orange is  kind of grey.

~Lumie

Say Hello to my Little Friend

So I was originally going to write this blog as a blog for my dog mostly like der Poopster, but since my dog plans have been thwarted for now, I'm going to mostly post random pictures and whatnot that I do.  I came across the quote in the title and realized it was for Scarface.  I know it's referring to his gun, but I couldn't help it after seeing what Life With Dogs did with their dog.

Without further ado:

Scarface Corgified

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~Lumie