Thursday, August 30, 2007

Dogs on Thursday

For this week's Dogs on Thursday post, I give you Emma only. Tara was much too shy. Either that or she was too lazy to drag her but off the sofa to join in the picture-taking festivities. You decide.

Anyway, this is the lovely Emma.
Hey - what's that she's looking at? My newly-bound copy of Charlene Schurch's "Sensational Knitted Socks"! Thanks to the brilliant HDW of the Crafty Momma blog, this book has a new spiral binding. Much easier to use!!!! It can now lay out flat on my lap while I'm struggling with mastering the intricacies of the various stitch patterns. I took the book to Staples and they cut off the old binding and replaced it with this swanky spiral binding for the grand total of .... [insert drumroll] .... $2.00! Talk about a bargain. Thanks for the suggestion, Crafty Momma! (Go check out her blog. She lives on a beautiful island off the coast of Maine, and has three great kids!)

In case you think it was a piece of cake getting a picture of Emma where she appeared to be engrossed in the spiral binding, I give you these:



These are just a few of the many, many shots I took to try and lure Emma close to the book. Yes, you might see some treats that I used to get her into the shot. Yes, that is, indeed, doggy slobber on the ottoman. Oh, well...it was all in the interest of capturing a blog-worthy picture.

7 comments:

Paula said...

Oh what a beautiful dog!
She is really sweet looking!
P.S. I have Sensational Knitted Socks too and LOVE that book but your spiral binding is so much cooler than mine.

HDW said...

The spira binding is a must with that book...in the first month I had busted the old binding!! I now do it with all my well loved books....amd it is cheap!!!! Well worth it definitely...and thanks for sending people over to my blog!! Altho not much knitting content as of late!

Lapdog Creations said...

Cute pics and oh what a WONDERFUL idea about having Staples spiral bound the books. I'm going to have to go get mine done now!

silfert said...

I just love those eyes!

Donna said...

Emma is most adorable! Is she available for dates? My Oliver wants to know. You can check out his picture on my blog. He says she is one cute pup!

KimT said...

great shots of emma! tara missed out on her weekly photoshoot. models are so tempramental!

Sonya said...

$2.00??!!
I am so taking my copy of that book and having it spiral bound. Maybe some of my other too.