{Favorite Pet Bookmarks}

Our dogs are a huge part of our family, aren't yours? They are best friends to my kiddo, and truly they are members of the family. We don't know what we'd do without them!

On that note, my daughter is a giant bookworm and always has her nose stuck in a book. We spend one Saturday morning each month at the library, participating in their "Reading to Canines" program. VIPaws comes to the program room with 2-4 dogs each time, all gigantic sweethearts, and children can come and read to the dogs. It's a great way for new or struggling readers to build up some confidence while reading to an always-listening sweet dog that doesn't ever correct. :) We started doing it 2 years ago when my kiddo was just learning to read, and now we just do it to help feed her enormous love of dogs. For each reading, she gets to choose a bookmark of the dog she read to. She decided she wanted bookmarks of her own dogs, so we created these this morning. They are adorable!

All computer created...nothing fancy...super cute. :) I just created a text box in Word, inserted 2 favorite pics of our fur babies, and added details about each one. I printed them on cardstock, cut them out, and "laminated" them with clear contact paper. My kiddo thinks these are SO cool! How cute would these be with a ribbon at the top? My kiddo preferred them without, but I would go with a ribbon!

I would really like to try these Custom Pet Tees , too. They've been on my to-do list for a while. Maybe getting ready for back-to-school will get me motivated. They are adorable!

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{Impromptu Dog Beds!}

Out of nowhere I whipped up these doggy beds this afternoon and they are already getting some serious sleep time! My sweet JRT's, Riff & Shelby, are by my side constantly (and I mean CONSTANTLY). That means that I always have 2 buddies sleeping around my feet when I'm in my craft room working on something. The last few months, they have both taken a liking to sleeping on anything that's fleece. So a month or so ago I purchased a 2 pack of those super-cheap thin fleece blankets at Wal-Mart for about $3. I specifically bought them in chocolate brown so they would blend in with my living room decor. One is there and the other I cut in half and had thrown in my craft room. That means it's been first come-first serve on the fleece in there.

This morning Riff was left out and looking for something soft to lie on. I remembered a large section of super soft material that I bought once with the intention of making a baby blanket for a friend. That never happened and never will, so I threw it on the floor. He fell in love so I decided to turn that and the brown Wal-Mart fleece into beds for them...just for the craft room. :) (Any other time they are snuggled up beside you on the couch.)

I just folded them in half, stitched around 3 sides, then lightly stuffed with poly-fil before closing them up. Neither fabric needs to have a finished edge, so it was super quick.

They both like to dig around and make their blankets "just right", so the uneven poly-fil works perfectly. These cost next to nothing and no one gets left out of a soft place to sleep now in my craft room. :) Strangely, they even inadvertently almost match!

I like how easy they were and how happy my puppers are! 

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