Hi Sheila! I think that is a fabulous picture. Of both of you. The depth variance between the foreground and back is wonderful. You both are stunning!

Hi Victoria, and thanks! I'm trying to get used to the new, more "matronly" me. Needless to say, the gym and I haven't seen a lot of each other lately. Ginger looks slimmer in the background... perhaps we just have exchanged positions :-)

Sheila - What a great picture! How do you keep your house looking so clean with all of the animals?! So, do you think you'll have Lajunianne ready to wear at SW? :-)

Mary

Can you say "Maid Brigade"? :-) It's the best thing I ever did for myself, was getting them to come in every week-- and they'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands or in bankruptcy court before I let it go!!

As for LaJ being ready for SW -- HA! -- maybe in 2004!

Dear Sheila,

You are just making this LaJ look TOO easy! I know just how complex it is....but boy, it looks wonderful. You look great and so does the Kitty on the step..Thanks for the picture.
Hugs
junieann

Hi Junieann,
It's looking great, I'm amazed that I'm not struggling with it more. There is one little tiny part that is gapping between stitches for about 3 rows, but I think I'm prventing that from happening any more by making sure to weave the background color in with every single color change.

Are you watching the Westminster Dog Show? Our herding group will be on tonight!! I'm not sure which group the Standard Poodle will be in, but Harvey has been watching the show just as intently as we have. Grazzi only pays attention when the announcer talks to the dogs... Harvey thinks he's a person, I guess that's the difference!

The Standard Poodle is in the Non-Sporting group. This makes the group very difficult, because how can any dog compete with those "fancy" poodles! Spencer and I always watch the non-sporting group and root for the Chinese Shar-Pei, but the poor guy never has a chance!

Spencer is part (mostly?) Shar-pei, so he tries to root for the home team!

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What do you mean "more matronly" you? (maybe there's history to that statement that I don't know?!) That is not at all how you look. You're just cute!

The sweater is looking fab.

And, fwiw, that standard poodle scared the crap out of me. My grandparents had an apricot standard when I was growing up, a real show dog of some exquisite proportion that they stopped showing because apparently it's really expensive to hit the circuit (he was a popular stud, tho, for his lineage and form).

He was a great pet and got a 'puppy strip' a few times a year to keep the fur manageable. From my kiddie perspective, he was as much a knock-around family dog as the mostly german shepherd mutt and it always just gives me the heebie-jeebies to see them in show cuts because, well, they're not Fifi dogs (or they don't have to be)!!

-3c