Check-In Post February 11th 2024

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


This Week's Question: Who do you most enjoy making things for: family, friends, yourself, a special someone?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[spiralicious]

Turns out I do have intermittent internet access, but between the dog's schedule and the chickens, I haven't had much time or energy to work on anything. I have tried to write, but it didn't go anywhere.

One thing I was able to do was help my mother finish the egg crate dragon. I collected the pieces she had done. She had painted things enough to be useable and had about half the parts cut out, but nothing trimmed and I spent a few hours after the dog had been put to bed cutting out egg crate cups, trimming them all to size, making spacers out of straws, and stringing the body together. Then I cut out the parts for the head. I brought it to her the next morning and she made and attached the tail and decorated and attached the head. She was touching up little details on it last I was over there on a supply run.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like the dragon is almost done, how brilliant!

The dog has a bedtime?

[wiseheart]

I hope there will be a picture when it's finished. Such a great idea!

[spiralicious]

I thought it was done, but my mother is very insistent that the eyes need to be changed, lol.

Yes, the dog has a bedtime. She must be invited to her bed and tucked in. You must wish her a good night and make everything very dark and quiet. It was an experience.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like the dog is their child... Never heard of a dog treated that way!

[spiralicious]

Yeah, most dogs I have petsat have been treated like the owner's child to an extent, especially ones owned by relatively well off retired people, especially if it was their first pet, but this was defiantly the most extreme example I have come across.

[badly_knitted]

I get that people love their pets, I've loved all of mine, but there are limits. Although, not with the owners of that dog... Still, as long as the dog is well cared for, that's what matters.

[spiralicious]

It was a bit much, but the dog seemed happy, healthy, and well behaved, not to mention younger than her years, so it must be working for them :)

I'm just glad she was slightly less fussy about the chickens, slightly ;)

[badly_knitted]

Chickens are an adventure, lol! I had to catch one belonging to my neighbour and take it back, knocking on the door with a chicken under one arm...

[spiralicious]

They definitely are!

Lol, I can picture it.