Geordie takes a boat ride!

Geordie went on his first boat ride this weekend. We got this awesome pet vest at Ride the Wave in Angola but you can find one at many different sites online if you search O'Brien Pet Vest. It's got adjustable straps and fits really well. It's perfect for I.G.s.

He hung on to Daniel's waist for dear life! By the end of the trip he was almost asleep!

New jewelry!

I've got some new items hitting my Etsy site:

Here are some rings I made that I won't be posting quite yet but are available for $5!

This is a lariate necklace with a fleur-de-lis charm. The beaded chain is really delicate.

Next are two netted bracelets. These are really cute and can be worn if you want to dress up or down. The first is tortoise colored with gold accents and a violet bicone crystal bead as the toggle clasp. The second is black with lime green accents.

I will be posting these over the next few days so keep checking out laurengstudio.etsy.com!

Geordie is an amazing little dog

This past weekend was AMAZING. It was so fantastic to see SO many Iggies just running freely and playing. The ride down was less than fun. Daniel was sick (and still is...well now we both are) so he wasn't in the best mood and Geordie decided to follow right along and be a whiner nearly the entire 2 hour drive. When we arrived we had to go through a maze of gates and fences. Seriously, it's 3 or 4 different sets of gates to go through but is very necessary when you have a room full of a hundred free Iggies. We walk in and Geordie is going nuts pulling at the leash but I'm scared to let him go. It was like a mother seeing her child leave for the first day of school, but I let him go and wow, did he GO! Geordie's foster Dad assured me he would come around once in a while to check on us and sure enough he did! Every 15 or 20 minutes he would come running up to us for a quick hello and then off he went! Geordie sure knows how to get in trouble. The main area was fenced off to another side where the restrooms, food and the photographer were. When I went to the bathroom he pushed down the entire fence to try and get to me. And later his foster mom's nephew walked up holding him and said, "I found him by the food table by himself." He had figured out a way to get the fence open. Aside from those adventrues we just saw him whiz by with other Iggies. He had a fantastic time. By the end of the day when I picked him up he rested his head on my shoulder and started falling asleep. He barely made a sound on the way home. And today, I'd like to share that for the FIRST time Geordie played tug of war with me... for 5 seconds, but 5 seconds is amazing to me! Playing with toys is something he rarely does and I don't think was ever taught to do, so this is a huge victory for us. Here is a pic of him watching tv the other night:

We had a little scare the other morning when Geordie woke us at 2 am just crying in pain. We couldn't figure out what was hurting him but anywhere I touched he cried out. I finally narrowed it down to his ears. He moved around fine and when he finally calmed down he went underneath the bed to hide. The next morning I took him out and touched near his ear and he shrieked again. I called the vet and took him in for an emergency appointment. Of course when we arrived he decided nothing hurt and made no sound anywhere the vet touched. So she couldn't figure it out but did see a wax plug in one ear that could have been irritating or painful and also found a small bug bite by the ear which could have been it too. He's been fine since then so I really don't know what happened. Atleast we know if there's something wrong at all with him, he WILL let us know.

On a different note I've created some new bracelets which I'm pretty excited about. I'll post pictures soon.

Iggy 500 Here We Come!!

It's finally here and tomorrow I will be traveling to Noblesville to my first Iggy 500! While there I will have 2 pieces of artwork being auctioned to the two highest bidders. I will be creating charcoal pet portraits of the winner's Iggy. Here's the one I did of Geordie, along with some others I've done in various mediums:

"Geordie" (top) & "Jake" (bottom)

"Lenny" (top) and "Baby" (bottom)

I hope people like the idea. 100% of the profits go to support the Italian Greyhound Rescue. Supposedly there are Iggy games like howling and tail wagging so I definately want to take the video camera! I've been helping out the rescue as well working on an update to the website. I'm having to learn Dreamweaver software so when I finally figure it all out I'll post links here so you can see what I did.

If you're interested in learning more about italian greyhounds visit http://www.indianaigrescue.org to see available Iggies for adoption or http://www.summitcitywhippets.com for links to breed information (this is the site I will be working on).