Thanks for your good thoughts on the dog search. The shelters in the DC metro area are spilling over with the unwanted, so it has been a shock to me that there are so few dogs here. I have a bad feeling that there was a massive clearance at one point--yikes. Budget constraints since dogs take up more room and cost more to feed? Sadly, there are plenty of cats and a ton of bunnies in the Cape's shelters. I have chosen to call ahead rather than go into a place with a bunch of little bunnies in cages for obvious reasons.
Meet Longfellow! Longfellow is looking a little tired because he's spent the last 30 years in a closet, but he can be the stand-in pet for a while. Why on earth my mother kept him is beyond me; my great aunt passed it down to her. I'm not sure what you call these things--scarves? Collars? There's a clip on his lower jaw. Poor Longfellow is rather ratty looking.
Here he is, standing in for the bunnies on the sendoff. His wacky eyes crack me up. Maybe I'll wear him on my next job interview; that will guarantee another six months of stitching at home, I'm sure.
Longfellow: "Helter Skelter.."
See you tomorrow with some progress. On something.
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I actually gasped when I saw the sampler that you have starte - wow is that going to be an amazing piece or what?? Then I went HUH? when I saw Longfellow - I do remember, though that both my DH's mom and mine had something similar. As a matter of fact, DH's mom's might still be around here somewhere......
Such pretty things you are always working on!
Longfellow's eyes are definitely wonky! I think my grandmother had something similar - not sure where it ended up...
Great start on the sampler. I love your bunnies - if I didn't have so many cats I would get a bunny.
Linda
What a beautiful beginning! It's going to be another stunner!
Lois M. is a beautiful sampler and I'm going to enjoy following your progress on her. Longfellow does have a set of wonky eyes! My grandmother had her own Longfellow. It was worn over the shoulders to 'doll up' a plain winter coal... 'doll up' was one of my grandmother's favorite phrases... sort of like today's 'bling'.
That rose looks so good I must mean the rest of the sampler is going to be wonderful.
I say Ebay Longfellow, someone with no fur feeling will pay good money for him.
Longfellow is a little scary. My grandmother had one too, I think she called it a stole.
Lois Minshall is a great mother's sampler. I stitched it for my mom and put her info in instead of Lois'. I still love it. As for Longfellow -- he's a bit creepy for my tastes. Helter Skelter indeed! lol!
God bless us and save us! That Longfellow would make me run--and that's not something I do on a monthly basis. My friend's grandmother had one and she used to chase me around the house with it. LOL
Love the sampler!
You're killin' me Glenna. Longfellow is quite a fellow for sure !!! Too FUNNY !!! Love the sampler!
Beautiful new start. Longfellow has crazy eyes :)
Love the sampler you started.. and Longfellow - he made me bust out laughing. NOT a good substitute form those sweet bunnies.
Pretty start!
And here I thought you were reading Longfellow! Never could I have imagined you were going to show a fox, LOL!
The new sampler looks great. Longfellow not so much. Those eyes are funky!
I love Longfellow! He is quite a darling boy!
What a perfect sampler to remember your mother by. I have always loved this sampler.
Your start on the sampler is just beautiful. At first I couldn't figure out what Longfellow was and then I remembered my mother had one from my grandmother. His eyes would give me nightmares.
Oh Lois Minshall is a lovely sampler isn't it. I have mine hanging in my bedroom. I changed Lois's details though to my Mum's. I look at it everyday lying in bed and when I do I think of her.
Oh my Great Grandmother had one of those lol. I used to love wearing it when I was a little girl. I wonder what happened to it.
Oh, Glenna, Glenna, what an enabler you are! Lois is gorgeous! I'm afraid she may have to come live with me and be added to the pile of samplers that I don't have time to stitch.
I hope you're able to find a little dog for your dad. Would one of the shelters in the DC area allow you to adopt a dog to give as a gift for your dad? I guess I can understand their reasoning in not wanting to adopt out of that area, but I would think they would rather see the animal go to a loving home, even if it is in another part of the country.
Longfellow looks a little bewildered, doesn't he? I can't imagine wearing such a thing. Yikes!
Oh, Glenna! I'm still chuckling as I write this. Just what was Longfellow locked in that closet with? Some serious cough syrup? Or something even stronger? Helter skelter, indeed! But the thought of you wearing him in to a job interview nearly undoes me. OMG, I would love a video of it. It would go viral on youtube, I'm sure!
Well I thought Longfellow was the new dog at first.
Catch any fish yet?
Love the new start - that rose is so pretty!
Longfellow is hilarious. He makes a good stand in, doesn't he? Love love love your progress on Lois - she's gorgeous!!
Love Lois, she's in my stash too. Don't you get tired of hearing me say that, LOL.
Longfellow is quite interesting ;-). Not sure I'd want to wear him around my neck????
I have Lois on my "to stitch" list. I'll look forward to watching her progress.
I see Longfellow's relatives in the antique stores sometimes and wonder what the ladies looked like that wore them. They always crack me up.
Love the new start, but I think Longfellow might be the winner of this post. How can anyone resist those wonky eyes?
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Longfellow is looking a little tired because he's spent the last 30 years in a closet.
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