Monthly Archives: January 2008

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The Fergie Chronicles

January 30, 2008 – 1:21 am

I was tagged by my dear friend Linda to interview Fergie for a dog meme.

(Linda I am thinking of you and Maisie every day and wishing you both the best on her road to recovery!)

Fergie was happy to take part in this post and has provided her answers below, to the best of her abilities.

This is Fergie in front of an oil painting done by my mom in 1969 (love it!!):

And here are her answers:

What are your 5 favorite songs?

1. The sweater song by that Ingrid Michaels girl. You know, the one on the Old Navy commercial? My mom says that is ‘our’ song and every time it comes on the radio she stops whatever she is doing and cuddles with me and sings it to me. I really like that a lot.
2. The Rolling Stones ‘Midnight Rambler’. I love dancing to this song. I am a very good dancer. I like to dance on my hind legs.
3. ‘Is This Love’ by Bob Marley.
4. ‘Waiting for my Ruca’ by Sublime because I always cock my head to the dog barking at the beginning
5. Anything fun with a good beat that’s easy to dance to.

What are your 5 favorite toys?

1. Green rubber everlasting fun ball. I DO have everlasting fun with this ball.
2. Purple rubber squirrel
3. Black Kong, because that is what I eat my breakfast out of.
4. Any tennis ball.
5. Any stuffed animal that my mom or grandpa or grandma gets me from Goodwill because I get to give it the death shake and tear it to bits.

What are your 5 favorite things to eat?

1. Fishy food by Wellness. My mom hates it because she says it’s stinky.
2. Ziwi Peak Venison and Mussels treats. stinky, stinky, yummy, yummy.
3. Bananas
4. Goldfish crackers
5. Plato salmon strips doggie treats. My new fave!

What are your 5 favorite activities?

1. Fetching ball
2. Swimming
3. Dock jumping
4. Dancing with my mom
5. Cuddling under the covers

What are your 5 bad habits?

1. Getting nasty with other dogs over my ball (I’m not a good sharer)
2. Pulling on the leash (sorry mom)
3. I take forever to pee and poo, don’t know why
4. I don’t bark but sometimes when I growl at dogs outside I get right next to my mom’s head and do it when she is laying on the couch. I think that bugs her.
5. Hmm, I’m really pretty good, I can’t think of anything else.

And my friends who get tagged to interview their own dogs for their doggie memes are:
Manon and Otis, Leigh and Hugo, and Angie and Merry.

By doggirlseattle | Posted in Fergie | Comments (0)

Coco & Milo

January 27, 2008 – 2:11 am

Remember Coco?

Well, her parents have a new ‘puppy’; a labradoodle named Milo, and they are moving to Memphis (driving there as we speak!) and wanted to get some shots of Milo and their kitties before they left that we could use for decopaw art of them.

They already have 2 big framed prints of their girls, Coco and Maggie, so now we just need to do Milo and the kitties.

I drove up to their home in Mill Creek last weekend on a pretty gloomy looking day, but Milo was such an awesome subject that he was easy to get shots of. As you can see, we had a blast.

I am calling his flying through the air shot ‘four off the floor’ and will try and tag all of my flying doggie shots as such from now on.

I also had to get some more pics of Coco while I was there, including this shot below. Sadly Maggie was at the groomers when I was there, hence the reason why she isn’t pictured here. I hear she is doing ok though, and I think will do much better in the Memphis weather!

‘Four Off the Floor’

In this last shot Coco’s dad had given her cheese, which they told me makes her smack her lips. I wish I had video of her eating it, it was hilarious and I was laughing so hard I could barely stand up straight. You can see the cheese at the back of her tongue in this shot.

As I mentioned above, the whole family is currently driving to Memphis. I received an email from Ben last night saying they were in Kansas and very tired. Can you imagine driving cross-country with 3 dogs and 2 cats in your car? Send some positive energy their way that all of the doggies and kitties and humans get there safely!

I’ll keep y’all posted with the art we design for Milo and the cats.

By doggirlseattle | Posted in seattle dog photography | Comments (0)

funny or scary?…

January 27, 2008 – 2:02 am

…you decide…

The first time I saw this I laughed, but now I just find it pretty frightening. What do you think?

BTW, this is Lulu, a really adorable 8-month old adopted mutt. She really is very cute normally, as evidenced in the shots below.

We will be designing Decopaw art for her, which I will try to remember to post when the proofs are done.

By doggirlseattle | Posted in Private client shoots | Comments (0)

Puccini triptych

January 25, 2008 – 12:24 am

Last week I had major artist’s block. It happens every so often for reasons that are beyond me. I find that my creative juices slow to a crawl, and I stare at my computer, not even knowing where to start.

Most art pieces I design are a process, and the best proofs come through experimenting and sometimes even happy accidents. So it’s not always a bad thing when I don’t already have a design in mind.

The following proofs are an example of this.

I designed the black, white and red proof first, then the colorful proof was the 4th that I designed.

The black, white and red came from wanting to do an avante-garde design, which is something that Puccini’s mom likes. She then asked to see it with teal accents, which I did (not shown here) and then for the final proof I wanted to show her something a bit more colorful, hence the 2nd proof below.

The 3 panels represent the 3 sides of Puccini- the nature-loving side (left panel), the city street savvy side (middle) and home-loving side (right).

I’m anxious to hear what Puccini’s mom thinks of these new proofs!

(click on the images to make them larger- note the silhouette detail of Puccini on the bottom left of the 2nd proof- something I think I’ll do with all of my triptychs!)

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