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Merry Christmas!

Posted in Holidays, tagged Dogs, Santa on December 25, 2014| 2 Comments »

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Kid’s Pet Portraits

Posted in Dogs, Paint Parties, Pet Portaits, tagged Dogs, Paint Party, pet portrait on December 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kids with Pet Portraits-Dec 2014

These kids did a terrific job painting their pet’s portraits yesterday at The Studio. Wow!

Don’t they look fabulous?! Great work everyone.

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A Day of Thanksgiving

Posted in Dogs, Serendipity, tagged Dogs, Mamie on November 27, 2014| 6 Comments »

Mamie’s Tutu

Mamie with Snow Dog

Her first day with us. Just like she had always been here.

Mamie Eisenhower Walker

Mamie and Lincoln getting to know each other

Kissing Lincoln

Throw my toy please!

Sleeping with Pig

Mamie sleeping on MY pillow-her favorite nap spot

Today we celebrate Thanksgiving – the most honest of all holidays. We give thanks for the family and friends in our lives and for the bounty we enjoy. Today I am giving a special prayer of thanks for our wonderful Mamie. We lost her yesterday to liver failure.

We only had the pleasure of Mamie, a feisty little Cairn terrier, for a little more than 2 years. She came to us from previous homes who could not keep her. What a loss for them because she was an amazing little dog.

She loved pigs. We are not sure how she could tell the difference but she knew her pigs…..and she had many! And she loved to play fetch more than anything. We would throw her pig, a ball, a stuff toy, and most recently her squeaky airplanes (a gift from neighbors when she first got sick in July) down the hallway in the house for her to chase. And chase she would hundreds of times if you would throw it that many. She LOVED it!

And she loved playing with her brothers Jed and Lincoln….especially Lincoln who was patient when we first got Mamie to help her overcome her toy aggression. It took several months but she finally understood that he just wanted to play. (You can see more about Mamie in this anniversary post.)

Mamie was our sweet little girl. She was devilish and clever. She was adorable and manipulating. She knew how to work the room. And many of our Facebook friends loved Mamie as well. We post photos on Facebook almost each day of our visits to the dog park and many people got to know her that way.

So today we send up a prayer of Thanksgiving for the time we had with our little girl, Mamie. We loved her so much and are so happy that she is feeling no more pain. We will miss her forever.

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The Cutest Apron

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Embroidery, tagged Dogs, embroidery, hand embroidery on November 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

On my quest to embroidery everything I see (LOL) I found these cute aprons recently at Target and of course, I thought the apron bib was the perfect place for a little embellishment.

Here is one with a Mamie look-a-like.

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Dogs Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Posted in Dogs, Embroidery, tagged Dogs, embroidery, Shenandoah Vallery Artist, Virginia Artist on November 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

I love Facebook because I am always seeing cute sayings that people post. I saw this one a few weeks ago and thought it would make a cute embroidery pattern if I added a little dog to it. So here it is on a pillow.

I love this one!

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The Perfect Christmas Gift

Posted in Pet Portaits, tagged daily painter, Dogs, gift, impressionism, pet portrait on November 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »

It’s not too late to place an order for a customized Pet Portrait for that extra special Christmas gift. For Pet lovers nothing could be better! All you need to do is send a good photo of that special pet and leave the rest to me.

Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to order that special Pet Portrait.

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Pet Portraits Paint Party

Posted in Dogs, Paint Parties, Pet Portaits, tagged Dogs, Paint Party, pet portrait on November 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

We had a really great group painting Pet Portraits at the Paint Party yesterday. I can only share one photo with you as several were painting the portraits for Christmas presents so I can not share theirs. I know that the recipients will love them.

Join us for the next Paint Party on Saturday, December 6, at 2 pm. We will be painting a winter scene.

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Great Work by Students

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Dogs, flowers, impressionism, Lilacs on October 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

The Wednesday students are producing some terrific art. The young artists painted this adorable little pup. So cute!

And Pat continues to produce wonderful paintings like this copy of Mary Cassatt’s Lilacs. Great job Pat!!!

Pat’s Halloween Costume – A Bubble Bath Tub

And I just couldn’t resist posting this photo of Pat in her Halloween costume. She always comes up with the BEST ones. This year she is “Taking A Bath in the Tub”. So clever.

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Life is Better with Dogs!

Posted in Embroidery, tagged Dogs, embroidery on October 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

“Life is Better with Dogs” pillow

“Life is Better with Dogs!” is the saying on this little embroidered pillow that I just finished. And it is! Everyone who knows me knows how I love my dogs….well, all dogs, but mine in particular.

And my little Mamie has been sick the past few days so I haven’t been painting but I have been doing some needlework while I stay near her. So there is more embroidery to come.

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Completed “The Talking Beagle”

Posted in Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, beagle, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Shenandoah Valley Artist, Virginia Artist on October 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A few days ago I posted “The Talking Beagle”, an acrylic painting that I started during art class last week. (See that post here.) I finished it this week.