new puppy!

Today at 6pm Allie is going to her new home.  We are having dinner with the family, getting her situated with new toys and a new collar, and then I will give my sure to be tearful goodbye.  I bathed her on Saturday, and have a pretty blue ribbon ready to tie around her neck for her final departure from the apartment.  She seems to know something's up.  All she wants to do recently is curl up in my lap and get her belly rubbed.  Damn I will miss her... Fortunately the new family has assured me I will get to visit and possibly dog-sit for her.  This will not be the last we see of Miss Allie!

And now ... drum roll ... I am getting a new puppy!  Possibly tonight!  The rescue group has been going back and forth on whether I'll foster a little puppy or an adolescent dog next.  Last I heard I was going to get a 10 month old full-bred pitty on April 19th.  Then this morning I get an email asking if I can take a 3 month old as early as tonight!  Of course I said yes.  The pups are pit/rottweiler mix so I wasn't expecting anything over the top adorable like my Allie... They sent me a picture... and lo and behold I am smitten!  Check this out.

You see that wrinkly thing second from the left?  The cutest puppy you've ever seen?  Yeah.  She's gonna be mine for a while (forever?).  AND  I get to name her!  I'm thinking she deserves a good southern name so I've been compiling a list of favorites.  Bayou, Harper, and Cotton are at the top so far, but I'll have to wait and see what her personality reveals.  

Oh man... what a life.

Bag 4

It's almost midnight.  My normal bedtime is much closer to 10.  This bag has taken up way too much of my life and doesn't look all that great. 

I think it's time to step back and realize that I am a complete n00b at sewing and shouldn't expect miracles - something I have certainly been hoping for.  It's going to take me a while to perfect my sewing skills so I just need to keep practicing and wait for that 'aha' moment.  Damn.

In other less frustrating news I'm currently dog-sitting for my all time favorite pooch, Minnie.  She is pretty much perfect except for the fact that she will eat any other dog that crosses her path.  Because of this a good friend of mine is taking care of the puppies for the time being.  They'll be coming 'home' this Tuesday.  I can't help but feel guilty for enjoying my puppy-free days... 

Minnie trying to snooze

off to a good start.

I think an introductory post is in order. 

Hi.  I'm Jen.  I'm about to turn 23 and am pretty happy with the direction life is taking me.  I graduated last May with a Studio Arts degree and was lucky enough to find myself employed as soon as the ink on my diploma dried.  I absolutely love where I work and get along wonderfully with the people I am surrounded with on a daily basis. 

For the past 5 years I've had a mini dog-sitting business that got going when I tapped into my professors' dog community.  I am a huge animal lover so getting paid to play with someone's dog (cat, snake, rat, ferret, horse, etc) is probably the best job ever.  Getting involved in dog-sitting and watching my friend Rachael Hetzel foster the adorable Dolly has spurred me to start fostering my own dogs.  My favorite breed is the all too misunderstood pit-bull.  My first foster was a beefy 4 year old pit name Chico.  He has recently been adopted by a dog-sitting client of mine and from what I can tell he is super happy and being spoiled rotten!  Most recently I have been put in charge of the most adorable brother/sister duo, Oliver and Allie.  They take up quite a bit of my time but I'm very proud of the progression they've made in their training!  I'm hoping they get adopted by a friends, or maybe friends of friends. 

Allie with her rawhide.

Most recently I've gotten a second job as a secretary/personal assistant at a local gallery and teaching institute.  Yet another job I love and that is full of wonderful people to work with!  Things have strangely been coming together recently.  I've been going through a bit of dead period when it comes to art making.  I basically haven't made crap since my thesis show last May and its been pretty depressing.  But recently I've finally gotten the 'making' bug back and have begun to collect materials.  And just as I'm starting to convert my tiny living room into a studio a good friend of mine calls and asks if I want a space in her beautiful studio.  Hell yes!  And then a couple days later when my sewing machine starts going on the fritz another friend offers to let me borrow an absolutely gorgeous mint condition Elna machine! 

The Rochester artist community continues to amaze me.  Up until a month ago I had completely made up my mind to leave this city and go onto other things... but everything that has been happening is making me think more and more about sticking around for a bit longer and seeing how things progress.  We'll see what happens!

here we go. again.

I believe this is the 5th blog I have tried to create in the past four years or so. Each time I kept them going for a few months or a half year at most and then my interest waned as I regretted my chosen blog name or questioned my reason for blogging in the first place. But this time will be different! I hope.

With my first post I would like to present you with a photo of two adorable 5 month old pit-bull puppies. Their names are Allie and Oliver and they are currently living with me but they need to find a forever home! We think they might have some lab and/or boxer in them. They are the cutest and most loving puppies I've ever met! I'm sure there will be many more picture posts of them in the following weeks.

Oliver and Allie playing it up in the kitchen.

Visit Allie and Olivers' adoption pages!