Arthur's Yellow Raincoat

 

Valentine's Day at PetSmart

  Arthur had a great time at PetSmart's Valentine's Day party❣ He met lots of dogs and little girls. Arthur is very shy around strangers. He travels very well. Poodles are known to be wonderful traveling companions. I did get Ron Steinbeck's last book, Travels with Charley, in his Christmas stocking. He traveled the country in his convertible with his poodle. We haven't gotten to it yet, but I'm a huge Steinbeck fan. I used to teach Cannery Row. Speaking of poodles there was a gorgeous black girl, Lala, behind us. Arthur got a valentine bag with treats and a soccer ball that he and Frankie love. I got a five dollar off coupon so scored his adorable jammies for $2.50❣ Plus I got a $2 off coupon for next time and a $20 off grooming coupon❣ I'll upload a video later. Happy Valentine's Day❣💕💝💕
 

Still Partying

Arthur's First Birthday

 

A Doll Mess & More (Monster High, Bettas, & Snow)

Dreams 12/19

12/19

  My first dream took place in the Dark Ages within a fort where we were being assaulted by demonic monsters. Each time that I’d grab a weapon, whether a spear, sword, or other, something would happen to it, so that it was useless. The spear tips would break off, the swords would warp into a soft mess, and even my favorite make-shift weapons became child proof. Most of the battles seemed to occur within lofts and barns with straw floors. 

  Then I was inside a colorful old house. Dame Darcy was there. The walls were painted with murals in soft romantic hues. There was a trap door up on the wall behind the fireplace that I was trying to access but couldn’t. The same demonic monsters from the first dream were there and still after me. 

  Ron and I lived in a different house in the country in the third dream. We had Arthur who was very shaggy. I was in a crawl space off of the kitchen, it was something like a pantry. I was looking for Christmas decorations for the porch. Arthur was wearing a beige punch needle Christmas sweater with a reindeer and peppermint candy design. He ran off to the neighbors on our right, and I had to go after him. 

  Finally, the last dream was a reality show. Ron was there. A man wanted to marry a woman. The woman’s mother was present. Supposedly the woman had to wait tables after the wedding. It was revealed that the suitor was twenty-six million dollars in debt, so the marriage wouldn’t happen. He seemed like a real smartass. Ron was lounging on a veranda wearing a tan and brown knit turtleneck sweater. He had a gold medallion with numbers etched into it: two, and others I can’t recall. It might’ve signified a date. It was resting just beneath his throat. The mother of the contestant thanked him and told me that I would be the reigning queen now.

Dana's Dreams

Dana's Dreams Two

Revenge of the Dream Hog

Arthur Got a Hair Cut

Talk About Puffy Combs

  It's been raining all day. After three hot towels I gave up and turned the blow dryer and brush on Arthur. He looks like a toasted marshmallow cloud. I got so many Halloween deals today that my boys' treat bag is busting out and stuffed. It's Arthur's first Halloween, Frankie's second. I'll have to make a video. Told you they were going to have to let Diddy off. If I was on his jury I would've. I wouldn't have let OJ off no matter how much Mummy defended him. I listened to the 💩 against him. Seems to me if you are lying around Diddy's house nakey, showering with him, partying with him, eating monkey brains, and begging for the work, you've got what's coming for you. 🙈🐒🙊

 

Brothers

 

Before & After Arthur

  Before or after his daily groom Arthur is cute and cuddly. He's a good boy. 💟

 

Dreams 9/30

 9/30

  I dreamed that I was at a party in a little house. The hostess was a heavy set middle aged lady with long curly strawberry blonde hair. She was wearing a form fitting wrap around white set that looked like gauze. My cousin Carol was the only other person that I knew at the party. The hostess, supposedly a close friend of mine, had me standing on a bed, facing me, holding my hands. My head was wrapped, and she knew that I was sick. She said that my cousin, Verity, would help to cure my woes. I asked what had happened to her as I had seen her a few months ago. She told me that she had sadly passed away. I was looking for some things: Tarot or art cards, maybe, faeries… I was opening drawers. Then Brooke Shields came in with her two children, a young boy, and a toddler. She had a colorful purse and asked what we were going to do. The hostess was close with her. Brooke was talking about shopping with her boy who said that they were out of something, some toy, I think, but she found one. Then I was in a pet store with Ron. There was a marmalade kitten in a kitty cave. The same hostess said that she had a dog for me. I was thinking that Arthur was enough. The dog was black and white, small and shaggy. She called him some kind of fringe. Then Arthur woke me up, jealous, likely.

Dana's Dreams

Dana's Dreams Two

Dana's Dreams Three Revenge of the Dream Hog

Terrorist, Frankie Crisp, Caught Raiding!

Sir Frankie Crisp Tops the Terror List

Monster High Boo-tique Hotel 9/23

Meet Farty Fuggler 9/23

O, My Ra!

Arthur, Andy, & DARK SHADOWS

Frankie & the Gourds 9/8

Working on It...

  I don't know how I got so backed up, but my beloved rugrats do demand 300%...  The seller ended my doll... Oh, hex. Mostly working in my Ebay shop, listing original art, like Dark Shadows...  Waiting for my latest Skelita. Might get the Bootique Hotel sooner than later. Also want a Vermont Teddy Bear ghost, missed him last year. Ron has gotten me three of those, and I love them all: Devil Bear, Vampire Bear, and Irish Bear. Doubt I'll have cloister dolls done for next week. Starve Acre, the novel, is even better than the film. Started that last night, (no sleeping), had to force myself to put it down. Want to finish that at the inn next week. I got a short of Frankie and the gourds. Working on it... Coffee is ready... TTYL... ✨

 

Update: Dolls, Ephrata, & the Rugrats

    I finally slept this morning for the first time in a couple of days. My stay at The 1777 Americana Inn in Ephrata near the cloister is finally booked. I have to make a couple of brother and sister doll prototypes for the cloister, working on it. Arthur and Frankie make it difficult for me to get anything done. Arthur has been sporting a man bun. I saw a dude yesterday with one. Arthur wears it better. TTYL... ✨

Dreams 8/31

  8/31

  I dreamed that I had been sick or hurt, and a certain Doctor Julian had sent me to stay in a trailer with a young mulatto woman. The place was a dump, piled high with clothes, mostly. I was a good sport about it, beggars can’t be choosers. The trailer was on the wrong side of the tracks in town. I don’t want the first dream of the book to be a cliche, because it was not. The woman was friendly enough and had friends. The first visitor was a little black man with a long opium pipe. The pipe looked ancient, dried old wood like the bottom of an old puddle. The woman brought out a big glass water bong and wanted to share, but I told her that I was sick and should not. The second guest was a smallish sort of Bigfoot, maybe more of a swamp monster with long dark hair. He didn’t stay long. The third guest was an old high yellow black woman with long grizzled white hair who reminded me of Mama Odie from The Princess & the Frog. She wasn’t blind, but she had the air of magic. She was complaining that my bunk was piled high with the girl’s wardrobe. I could see some black and white sheets and a thin mattress, but the girl said that there was no bed beneath the pile. The elder said that Dr. Julian was going to have to do something about it. The girl went out, and the front screen door kept falling off the hinges. I wanted to lock the door. There was some sort of lock. I couldn’t even keep it on the hinges. Arthur woke me early. Welcome to Dana’s Dreams Four, I suspect it’s going to be a long one.

Dana's Dreams

Dana's Dreams Two

Dana's Dreams Three Revenge of the Dream Hog