tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26988798027735661052024-03-16T03:15:29.084-07:00dottie angeldottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comBlogger977125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-58774140237278309062018-03-01T11:55:00.002-08:002018-03-01T11:56:25.220-08:00rambling again, but not here, over there ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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it would appear out of nowhere the urge to ramble has come upon me and therefore i have taken up my trusty keyboard and positioned myself over <a href="https://www.curiousandcoe.com/milo-s-mews" target="_blank">here</a> under the anonymous name of Milo's Mews.</div>
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gosh that is like those folks who write huge novels yet do not use their real name but that of another, an alter ego. "ummm, hello! which is exactly what you did here Tif", "well spotted!" but now i am doing over there. ha! such cleverness such trickery.</div>
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i have no idea how long the urge will last, nor shall i fret about such things. for now it is what it is and that is good enough. so if you have stumbled upon this blog like others before you, and perhaps bemoaned the fact i no longer frequent this space, then you are invited to come visit me over at <a href="https://www.curiousandcoe.com/" target="_blank">curious.and.coe</a> under my cunning disguise of <a href="https://www.curiousandcoe.com/milo-s-mews" target="_blank">Milo's Mews</a>. i cannot promise wit, nor anything related to this lovely patch of the woods, but i can promise a bit of dribbling on about this and that and the occasional rant or offering of enlightenment along the way. </div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-26230834116558435182017-02-07T20:20:00.001-08:002017-02-07T21:42:48.507-08:00where for art thou Tif ...<div style="text-align: center;">
gosh, can it really be 2 years or more since i have visited this neck of the dottie angel woods. if i could i would tell you in a nutshell what i have been <strike>up to,</strike> <strike>doing</strike> 'being', but i can't, so i shan't. however if i may be so bold, i would love to tell you where i can be found loitering these days aside from my studio and my 'cushion'.</div>
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me and my youngest lad have set out on an adventure together, the adventure is called curious.and.coe </div>
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you can find us right over <a href="https://curiousandcoe.com/">here</a> and if perchance you have missed a ramble or two i can be found along with Milo the Buddha Cat waffling-a-long right <a href="https://curiousandcoe.com/milos-mews/">here</a>.</div>
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i do not know what our new column will be, for so long i kept the mute button on but in the past few months it has become increasingly clear i need to find an outlet for all these jumbly bumbly words within my head. if i can spill them onto paper, give them some breathing room, i believe there will become lightness within. i also could be quite wrong... ha! who knows!</div>
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so there we have it, i did not think i would come back, but i have, not quite back here, but back over <a href="https://curiousandcoe.com/about/">there</a>, so not back at all, but forward if you please... and if you would like to come visit, you are most welcome and if you would prefer to stay in this part of dottie angel's neck of the woods, you are also most welcome and may i thank you most kindly for keeping her company.</div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-21547963940509576992015-03-09T12:14:00.002-07:002015-03-09T12:18:12.919-07:00the end ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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did you know it is eight years since i started tippity tapping away here on my shiny happy place. i went way back and found <a href="http://dottieangel.blogspot.com/2007/03/ive-only-just-began.html" target="_blank">my first post</a>. i really truly had no idea what i was doing, nor where i was going and those were perhaps the happiest times of my rambling blogging journey. and it is without doubt, if it were not for my blog and you dearest readers i would not have done so many wonderful things, met so many wonderful peachy dearies and grown in so many wonderful ways. i spent many happy times, regaling whoever may happen to wish to read, clan moments, critter moments, crafty moments, thrifting moments and any other moments that i chose to share. and it goes without saying, there have been many other moments i did not share. some pants, some peachy.</div>
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gosh this does sound like it is turning into a farewell swan song, which is not my intention, for this is written not with sadness but happiness in my heart. i am happy to be leaving this lovely shiny place just as it is, for anyone who may care to visit or stumble upon me. however i have decided it is time to retire my blogging hat, carefully placing it back in my kitchen drawer and to continue treading the path i have started out upon in recent times. you will find me happily woolly tattooing and making little knits in preparation for my online 'atelier of sorts for small beings & grown~ups' opening later in the year. i will of course still be found over on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dottieangel" target="_blank">facebook</a> as and when nitty gritty things and photos need to be shared and you will find me daily in my happy place over on <a href="https://instagram.com/dottieangel/" target="_blank">instagram</a>. in a few months i have high hopes my new shiny online home will be all set up, a place for folks to visit and see what handmade wares i have for sale, all made slowly, with beautiful yarns and vintage materials. in my head i am seeing it as a happy heirloom collection of sorts and in my hands, those thoughts are slowly but surely coming together</div>
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and so before i close the final floral curtain upon this rambling and at times, bumbling stage, can i just say, i have been nothing but humbled by the kindness of others who came through the life i shared for the past 8 years. you shared my laughter, you shared my joy, you shared my pain and you shared my tears. how truly lucky am i in life to have had all this and more. and if this is it, if this is as good as it gets, then that is a~okay with me. for i have been blessed, and i will never feel quite so loved again and okay to be me, as the times i rambled on here and you choose to listen. </div>
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thank you, thank you kindly dearest readers, old ones, new ones, furry ones and fruity cake ones. it may look like the end, but i assure you, it is not it truly really is not. </div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-15708813269384308852015-02-19T10:56:00.000-08:002015-02-19T10:56:31.300-08:00dottie and daughter ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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my cogs are all foggy and i cannot string a sentence together without forgetting mid sentence what i am on about nor my reason for beginning such a sentence in the first place.</div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-19020143132489693972015-02-04T10:32:00.000-08:002015-02-04T10:35:02.318-08:00what, what ...<div style="text-align: center;">
Our #1 comes home to play today ~ for a whole live long month! </div>
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Little Olive has found something to live for ~ kibble in homemade bone broth appears to be the miracle cure for a broken little doggie's heart</div>
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i blinged a pair of handknit 'small being' mitts i bought from a maker in december ~ they are destined for my 'someday a granny' trousseau </div>
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for those who may have read my previous post on letting go and now fretting about no dottie angel frock pattern ~ please do not fret, it will be published in June, i cannot say who with or how until May, then with permission i will spill the beans. dottie angel frocks are still very much a part of who i am and where i am going, alongside of woolly tattoos and teaching again. </div>
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this past weekend i continued upon my path of magical tidying up forever and ever. i am quite sure some folks and dearies are thinking "ummm, have you noted Tif's magical tidying up forever and ever is actually taking her forever and ever?" and yes, on some days i am thinking the same thing. however let us be fair, i did take off two months due to clan and holiday interruptions in-between starting my magical tidying up forever and ever and then picking up where i had left off to continue upon my merry magical tidying up forever and ever path.</div>
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this weekend was a big, 'terribly big biggy bit' of magical tidying up forever and ever, for i was magically tidying up dottie angel. i have been working up to it for a while now, tip toeing around her, creating gigantic piles in one space and then closing the door to the point eventually no door could be closed and no room could be got into. last weekend, (not this past weekend) i went into said room and i sorted, i sorted like i had never sorted before and after 2 full days things were tidy, in organized chaos, but not magically tidied up forever and ever. i thought this would be enough. i told myself this would be enough but over the coming days my heart and my head told me otherwise</div>
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and thus, this weekend i went back into the room which held eight years of dottie angel and i set to with magically tidying up forever and ever. for i knew i had reached a point for me to move forward, i had to let go, and can i tell you, this was not a thing i decided upon a whim, this has been inside of me for a long time. i have been working up to it without even knowing it, but i know it now and awareness can be a magical thing. with the help of my man offering to take things away without questions asked, i let the past 8 years of dottie angel go. i kept very few creations which still give me joy when i see them, that connect me to a time which makes me happy, however the rest my man piled high into the back of the car and took to Goodwill. i felt it quite apt and surely most fitting dottie angel wares and other handmade goodness i have crafted over the years for our home should end up on the shelves of despair, to bring a little joy to another thrifty hunter going about their secondhand hunting day. a chance to be loved again, to find a bit of happy out in the world.</div>
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i would be telling a gigantic fib if i said it was an easy thing to do, for it was not, it took all my snoopy courage and some more. at one point i sat on the stairs with tears rolling down my cheeks, having my hand held from across the pond via text and Our #1. so many good peachy times, so many bad pants times from the past 8 years with dottie angel came flooding through as each and every creation, stitched from my heart was held in my hand for one last time. but can i also tell you dearest reader, never in all my days of dottie angel have i been so sure and i am positively beaming inside as i tippity tap this, for i have made space in my crafty cogs and my crafty heart ... i can see clearly again, no longer weighed down from the past. </div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-78382594510027432022015-01-30T10:20:00.001-08:002015-01-30T10:21:19.895-08:00a smidgen of my week ...<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">after 8 years it would appear i am still not done with doilies. these appeared in our Granny Chic book, i just added a bit of woolly stitchery cos that is where my crafty cogs are these days</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is a table runner folded in half and nailed to the wall, as one does. it found me several months ago and after a spell lying around on a cane chair, she has managed to make it onto the wall, now waiting patiently for woolly bling</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">be still my beating sacred heart. ah yes, the woolly tattoo i have had in my head for the longest time, finally makes an appearance on a thrifted sweater. plans to take commissions for woolly tattoos are a foot ... and to teach as well :)<br />
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i am beyond happy to be telling all about The Big Comic Relief Crafternoon today! </div>
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if you are in old blighty, today is the thee day (thursday 29th Jan) you can pottle on down to Sainsbury's to nab a copy of The Big Comic Relief Crafternoon. it will cost you a mere 7.99 (that is in pounds, i cannot find the pound sign on Colin the Computer, thus i must write it) and a whole whopping 5 pounds of that goes to <a href="http://www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday/red-nose-day-2015" target="_blank">Comic Relief</a>! goodness, that is impressive! </div>
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it is a spiffy special edition of <a href="http://www.molliemakes.com/" target="_blank">Mollie Makes</a> featuring a brilliant line up of crafty folks and their crafty recipes. here is just a sprinkling of what to expect, Lucy of Attic 24, Flossie Teacakes, Jodie Carleton, Lynda Lewis from the Great British Sewing Bee (love love love that program), Oh No Rachio and dottie angel. some of the recipes include knitted beards, crochet red noses, exquisite knickers (i wonder if they will give my granny knickers a complex), diy craft themed dinner plates, spring themed brooches, wristwarmers and a handy dandy messenger sack for small beings to go about their day gathering whatnots along the way...</div>
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yes how lucky am i, to have been invited to participate for such a worthy cause. can i tell you my crafty soul was warmed through and through, just to think no matter the fact i have been misplaced abroad for years, i am still a Brit in the eyes of others. </div>
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inside the pages, you will also find a handy guide to running your own craft fair in aid of <a href="http://www.comicrelief.com/rednoseday/red-nose-day-2015" target="_blank">Comic Relief</a>, filled with nitty gritty to answer all your questions. every crafter featured has donated their time and their recipe for others to make and in turn we are super hopeful you will raise lots of crafty cash to support fabby projects in the UK and Africa.</div>
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and others (all slighty bonkers or nutty fruitcakes) over at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Big-Comic-Relief-Crafternoon/791495410906755" target="_blank">The Big Comic Relief Crafternoon</a> on facebook and if you like to twitter about, you can find them also over <a href="https://twitter.com/CRCrafts." target="_blank">here</a>. i am thinking anything with a guinea pig related theme gets a two thumbs up from our mossy shed, or two paws up... or four</div>
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well my lovely readers, i am hopeful i have covered everything. i am hopeful if you didn't already know about this thrilling event you will now, and you will be rushing off to Sainsbury's to pick up a copy of The Big Comic Relief Crafternoon so you may get a little crafty with your crafty buddies at least twice a day before putting on a most marvelous craft fair in your neck of the woods.</div>
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any questions you may have, like "ummm, Tif, i do not live in old blighty but i would very muchly like to get hold of a copy and do some crafting to raise monies. how can i do so?" would be best asked over <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Big-Comic-Relief-Crafternoon/791495410906755" target="_blank">here</a> i am thinking because actually i do not know that answer, although tis a very good question indeedy</div>
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WAIT!!! a little ping just went off in my cogs, that is so not true Tif, that is a big whopper, for there is a way for those not on the fair shores of old blighty to get hold of everything. yes indeedy! you can find The Big Comic Relief Crafternoon on iTunes too!! oh happy happy day! no tears of sorrow to be had around the globe, only tears of joy, for all can feel a little crafty now for a jolly good cause.</div>
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i made another <a href="http://dottieangel.blogspot.com/2015/01/numptie-or-nice.html" target="_blank">'numptie or nice' hat</a>, this time my intentions were for a bit of woolly tattoo blinging, thus i did not make a zizzy yarny combination but choose to keep it a smidgen more subdued</div>
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and just a little note, for those that asked if i would share the pattern for my 'numptie or nice' hat. i am truly delighted you should wish to make one too, however as i have plans to sell the finished product alas and alack, i am unable to share my design for the time being. thank you kindly for your understanding. </div>
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yesterday issue 39 of <a href="http://www.littlethingmagazine.com/" target="_blank">little thing magazine</a> plopped on our doormat. i say plopped but that is a lie. i say plopped because i wished to use the word because it made me smile. the truth of the matter is, no magazine did any kind of plopping at all on our doormat or otherwise. it was actually handed to me by a very nice delivery dearie whilst Our #4 held a little pesky hound back by her neckerchief.</div>
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i had forgotten, for it is quite easy to do so these days, however before the holidays Little Olive and Used Dog were interviewed! i am quite sure you will agree, tis not every day a doggie gets to be interviewed so it did cause quite a stir amongst their every day lives. which is even more tragic i should forget such a extra ordinary event for them</div>
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thus yesterday after the magazine did not plop on our doormat i was reminded, and when i opened the pages to where my peachy buddy <a href="http://www.emilychalmers.com/" target="_blank">Emily</a> had written up her monthly or bi monthly column </div>
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and as i sit here today, feeling full to overflowing with love for my late friend, i know if Little Olive had been asked "what is your favourite big thing?" she would have answered without hesitation "my favourite big thing is Sunnie Star"</div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-62196471007471248632015-01-21T10:18:00.001-08:002015-01-21T10:18:48.443-08:00hip hip hippity hooray! ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-83219859935224775102015-01-20T16:08:00.001-08:002015-01-20T16:11:19.746-08:00this and that etc ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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i have finished up several books and added another to my reading pile. i am learning about Buddhism at the moment, i knew a bit about it before but not to this degree. i am liking tres muchly what i am hearing, seeing and reading and in turn it has made a difference even further to how i am choosing to spend my day. i came across a saying last week when i had my nose in a book, </div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-61279165800656024342015-01-16T11:33:00.000-08:002015-01-16T11:33:01.581-08:00'numptie or nice' ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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what has been inside my bonce for quite the whiles</div>
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a full circle kind of moment i am thinking.</div>
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i am rather liking how you can wear him as a bonnet</div>
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but alas you are running away from me.</div>
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my shiny happy new year started again today!</div>
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i am most excited by this, today is the first day of the rest of my year</div>
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i am officially a book worm. </div>
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i was never a book worm before but now i am. </div>
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in the past few months i can be found more often than not with book in hand rather than yarn or fabric. gasp! i know! i cannot help myself, i am on a path of enlightened reading and my little cogs are just whirring with it all. i told my man i was going to put a list of the books i had read or was reading on my blog, (look right and ye will find) he said "ah like the facebook chappy?" i said "what what?" because i do not know these things and he does. he explained and i thought how interesting, obviously the facebook chappy is also becoming a book worm too. we cannot be alone, perhaps 2015 will be the year of the book worm for many.</div>
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i note the sun is shining for the first time in quite the whiles and wonder if instead of being here inside sitting with colin the computer and an inbox, i might spend my time more wisely outdoors. little olive agrees and thus we will shortly take a stroll around the block, she can have a good old sniff at the bottom of the trees and i can have a good old ganders at the tops of the trees against the blue sky. </div>
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little olive is doing a tremendously good job at getting on without her besty buddy. i must confess she has claimed a whole couch for a whole week to mourn under a whole blanket but things are looking up... </div>
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in the past two days we have been on walks, we have chased a cat or two, we have eaten our food, we have played with toys, we have barked at random passing strangers in neon anoraks and we have watched a bit of telly. </div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-8608171084610475512015-01-04T12:20:00.002-08:002015-01-04T12:20:23.023-08:00the kindness of others ...<div style="text-align: center;">
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gratitude for the incredible gift that was given to us </div>
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over 14 years ago by the way of a third hand dog.</div>
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in all the years since i have never come across</div>
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a being nor a critter </div>
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who made it so easy to give and receive love</div>
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gratitude for the kindness of others,</div>
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in my inbox, on my facebook page</div>
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and my instagram feed.</div>
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truly how remarkable you all are</div>
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to have reminded me Used Dog</div>
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was loved from the four corners of the globe.</div>
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you have held my hand, </div>
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you have wiped my tears from afar.</div>
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and for that i am thanking you kindly</div>
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gratitude for the way Used Dog left this world</div>
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with such incredible grace and dignity.</div>
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she will always be our miracle dog</div>
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and as we start to go about the coming days</div>
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slowly but surely</div>
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the gaping hole in our lives will be filled</div>
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but our hearts will never forget</div>
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the 7th member of our clan,</div>
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my constant canine companion.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Our Sunnie Star </span></div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-17511161307186180402015-01-02T12:12:00.000-08:002015-01-02T12:12:11.267-08:00Used Dog ...<div style="text-align: center;">
february 2000 ~ january 2015</div>
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'you were loved beyond measure'</div>
dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-90062925622089643812014-12-31T08:55:00.001-08:002014-12-31T08:56:38.858-08:00the brightest lightest one ever ...<div style="text-align: center;">
oh i do love a shiny new year,</div>
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tis my fabby fav thing of all without a doubt.</div>
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more than birthdays, more than christmases.</div>
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this shiny new year will be all about</div>
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living in the moment of here and now.</div>
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letting the past go</div>
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trusting the future will take care of its self</div>
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and seeing the extra ordinary in the ordinary.</div>
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each and every day</div>
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right wherever my little feet happen to be planted.</div>
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i will not be making a list of resolutions</div>
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for the coming shiny new year.</div>
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rather i will be making a list of words.</div>
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daily reminders of being present in the moment</div>
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rather than drifting backwards or looking too far forwards.</div>
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hippity happy shiny new year to you dearest readers,</div>
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here's to it being the brightest, lightest one ever</div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-7432996668457339772014-12-24T10:52:00.001-08:002014-12-24T10:52:18.407-08:00may your days be ...<div style="text-align: center;">
merry & bright</div>
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merry christmas dearies!!!</div>
dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-14960165418390669622014-12-19T11:38:00.003-08:002014-12-19T11:38:51.621-08:00joyful thriftstore update ...<div style="text-align: center;">
on weds, Our #4 had an interview for a job at the new thriftstore opening up in the town next door. this is tres exciting and even more so to arrive home and find a message saying could he come back on monday for a second interview! he is thinking he may be a shelf stacker, i am thinking he may be tres good at that, what with being 6' 2". both him and myself are a little giddy about the thought of him having a job at a thrift store. </div>
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all fingers, toes, paws and claws are crossed here in mossy shed.</div>
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on saturday a most magnificent couch found me, it found me when i was least expecting it and truth be told, as i am <a href="http://dottieangel.blogspot.com/2014/11/tidying-up.html" target="_blank">magically tidying up forever</a> and ever it was most inconvenient that she should catch my eye and tug at my heart. upon close inspection with my adopted auntie, her man, Our #4 and my reluctant man it was all agreed a couch such as this is a rare find indeedy!</div>
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twenty four hours later and a lot of convincing on my behalf, the most magnificent couch was loaded into the back of the car, strapped in for safety to lessen the worry of her ending up on the side of the freeway, she came home to mossy shed. </div>
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my first intentions were for her to live outdoors under the overhang, waiting for warmer weather, and little green friends to start keeping her company. i was smitten by her wood sides, fabby fabric and could see the potential if i dared to start to mess around with her skirts. </div>
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after one night outside i began to fret for my newly found friend, for damp and cold can play havoc with our health and that of furniture left out back round here. upon arrival home from work the next day, i told my man i felt it would be a wrong doing to leave her out there, my man agreed it would and so in she came from the cold.</div>
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fortunately my <a href="http://dottieangel.blogspot.com/2014/11/tidying-up.html" target="_blank">magical tidying up</a> has left many gaps in our shed, but on the other hand, the whole point of my magical tidying up was to make gaps and to breath and not fill those lovely empty gaps up again. i must confess i was a little fretful my 'new~to~me, old~to~another' couch would cause me to feel overwhelmed as she filled in a rather large gap in my atelier of sorts, </div>
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but my fretting ways were soon cast aside when she sat there resplendent in her little corner. i asked "do you bring me joy?" as per my magical tidying up book, my couch sung out loud and clear "i do oh yes i do"</div>
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i covered her seat cushions in one of two beautiful lace bed throws i also found on saturday's thrift store pottle, i wonder if they came from the same donator, for both appear to be quite at home together as though they are old friends</div>
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and as i stepped back, pondering her skirts, i felt nothing but joy to see her there,</div>
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waiting patiently for a moment in this busy week for me to sit with a cup of mint tea and continue upon my path of enlightenment, this time with <a href="http://www.louisehay.com/" target="_blank">Louise Hay</a>. </div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-75327541463927394712014-12-15T10:44:00.000-08:002014-12-15T10:44:43.707-08:00wise little piggies ...<div style="text-align: center;">
last christmas,</div>
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Mister Muchly went to see Santa.</div>
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he asked Santa for a friend</div>
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it took a little while for Santa to work his magic</div>
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but in Spring a friend was found</div>
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this christmas,</div>
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Mister Muchly suggested to his trusty sidekick</div>
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Twiglet Piglet,</div>
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she might like to go and see Santa </div>
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and so they did.</div>
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however neither Mister Muchly</div>
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nor Twiglet Piglet </div>
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were fooled by this year's Santa</div>
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pointing out he did not look</div>
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old enough to drive a sleigh.</div>
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Mister Muchly was so not convinced</div>
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he tried on several occasions</div>
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to remove his beard</div>
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before being tackled into a safe grip by 'Santa'</div>
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upon perusal of the photo,</div>
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i am thinking they are quite wise little piggies</div>
dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-86960726622750474242014-12-12T12:16:00.000-08:002014-12-12T12:16:50.590-08:00the kindest thing i did for myself this week ...<div style="text-align: center;">
was finish reading</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Imperfection-Think-Supposed-Embrace/dp/159285849X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418415001&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gifts+of+imperfection" target="_blank">The Gifts of Imperfections</a></div>
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by <a href="http://brenebrown.com/" target="_blank">Brene Brown</a></div>
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if perchance you too are on the path to self awareness</div>
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or maybe you are right at the start </div>
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not quite knowing which way to turn</div>
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i do not think you could go wrong</div>
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with picking <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gifts-Imperfection-Think-Supposed-Embrace/dp/159285849X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1418415001&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gifts+of+imperfection" target="_blank">this book</a> up </div>
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and starting right at the beginning.</div>
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when i read books such as these</div>
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i always start at the very beginning,</div>
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never jumping in at random pages</div>
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for i believe each chapter builds on the previous one</div>
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and quite often, </div>
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actually more than often</div>
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i have to pause for thought,</div>
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reread and then continue.</div>
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and more often than not</div>
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i get to the end</div>
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and know i will need to reread the whole thing</div>
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just to clarify i read what was there</div>
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and not what i thought was there.</div>
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the back of our loo door is full of wise words</div>
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i have gleamed from books </div>
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over the past three years.</div>
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however the daily reminder</div>
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i gleamed from Brene Brown's book</div>
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will not be on the back of the door</div>
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but on the kitchen wall</div>
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to remind me each and every day</div>
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how far i have come,</div>
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of where i am now</div>
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and how muchly further i have to go </div>
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in this enlightening, </div>
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tricky dicky at times, </div>
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journey of mine</div>
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i said this was the kindest thing i had done for myself this week</div>
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it was a fib,</div>
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it turns out to be the kindest thing i have done for myself all year.</div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-4693544158137652292014-12-11T11:09:00.001-08:002014-12-11T11:09:47.993-08:00rebellious ways ...<div style="text-align: center;">
yesterday i made some easy peasy envelope cushion covers </div>
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out of an old sanderson slipcover </div>
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i made donkey's years ago.</div>
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i was not supposed to be doing such a thing</div>
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sometimes i marvel at my rebellious ways</div>
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dottie angelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09935619132467255438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698879802773566105.post-69015530820857327202014-12-08T12:35:00.001-08:002014-12-08T16:06:15.318-08:00pondering paint ...<div style="text-align: center;">
tis all quiet again in the shed, not that my folks are particularly rowdy sort of folks, just that there are not as many bods around. i am spending the next few days wisely inbetween must~dos like working at the yarn shop, cleaning, laundry, cooking and christmas gifts finding, with thoughts of paint. not just any old paint but chalk paint (ummm, Tif, didn't you dabble in that before and it nearly drove you to the funny farm?) and not just any old chalk paint colour, but graphite.</div>
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my mother brought along with her a few copies of english magazines as she knows how much i enjoy a good old ganders at homes from my homeland. well one little article stopped me in my page turning tracks and it was an article about Annie Sloan and her latest book on chalk painting your nest and the world around you and there was one picture of a wall painted in graphite which made my heart skip and my cogs start to turn.</div>
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so last week on one of our pottles together, me and my folks located a can of graphite chalk paint and now my shed is empty for two weeks i am looking around for some willing victims. one willing victim will be our kitchen window frame. i think i have found another one, tis a huge old vintage framed piece of art and then there is the victim who had no choice, willing or not, i wanted to see what the paint was like. so yesterday, the day i spent all day in my pajamas, in between doing gleeful joyful tree trimming and the likes, i painted my drawer shelf on the wall to see what would be.</div>
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well, tis most graphite and dark and tis most chalk like. </div>
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as one would expect if one paints something with graphite chalk paint.</div>
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as i am in the midst of tidying up forever and ever, never to tidy again, this means vignettes and collections of sorts have to be kept to a minimum or else they breed all over the walls and cupboards. so my drawer shelf is one of the few places i can change out with happy collections and feel this is okay because it is contained. </div>
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when i ponder it from afar </div>
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or up close, it looks to me like a diorama or shadow box of sorts. i like this muchly, i like how whatever i put in it, unless it is black or graphite, will pop happily and joyfully.</div>
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i have high hopes i will like my kitchen window frame and picture frame equally so although the matte~ness of it has me a little fretful...</div>
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footynote: please excuse continuing pants photos due to pants lighting, Colin the computer and his iffy monitoring issues and my long term separation with Carlos the Camera and ability to only see the world through squares.</div>
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