NanjoDogz

Halloween is approaching, do you do any decorating? This is the question posed from the Etsy Bloggers Street Team for October. Well, I don't really do much decorating, but my stepdaughter just loves to decorate Lena. She loves to dress up the poor dog - and really it doesn't have to be Halloween. The top two photos below though are from Halloween in year's past, but the bottom one was a 'just because' dress up day -- she didn't have anything else to dress up Lena with and she loves to put things on my poor girl. Do you dress up your pet for Halloween?

Size is approximate:
7/8" vertical (top to bottom)
1" horizontal (ear to ear)
1" horizontal (nose to back of head)

The bead is pierced vertically from top of head to bottom.

I'm happy to say that this little guy sold pretty quickly. The frame is a metal frame with a hand-sculpted Dachshund across the bottom giving a ride to four ladybugs who are trying to get up the flowers that the little pup is holding. The frame holds a small print of my artwork of a Dachshund with her own fairy. The dog, ladybugs and flowers are all hand-sculpted from polymer clay.

It's that time again, hard to believe it -- the months just keep flying by. It's time for our featured Etsy blogger and this month it goes to designsbyvanessa, a lovely shop with handmade paper goods and jewelry. Here's just a sample of what you will see in her shop! You also might like to stop by her blog to see what she's up to creatively.

Here are a couple of recent requests I had for custom beads ordered to look like their pets. I absolutely love to do custom orders, because each dog is so different with their own personality! Hope you like them.