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Our beloved granddog of 13 years passed away from Cancer in March 2022. She was a beloved member of the family, a wonderful dog! My daughter and her husband adopted Nellari when she was a puppy. They lived with us for a short time and …
Our cat is an important member of our family and spoiled rotten. We were empty nesters for 15 years until we adopted him. He’s a domestic short-hair cat and has a wonderful tempermant and loving behavior. Remove will be 3 years old September 2022. * …
Over the past 5 years I’ve posted at least 100+ art and craft projects that utilize seashells. I love working with them because they’re a FREE resource from nature. You can paint on them, string them together to make jewelry, place them in baskets to use as home decor, turn them into windchimes, garden plant markers, and all sorts of other things.
Millions of Americans own a pet and once our pet passes we like to remember them by placing a memorial in our garden. Some people place stepping stones but I like to use painted seashells. The one that I’m featuring today is quite large…a 5″ wide clam shell that I collected from the beach in New Jersey.
Hand-Painted Pet Memorial Seashell Garden Yard Art
Before painting on seashells you always want to give them a good cleaning with liquid dish soap and water. If needed, use an old toothbrush to losen up sand and debris. Take them outside and let them dry in the sunshine for 2-3 days. They need to be completely dry!!! I recommend and use Dawn Liquid Dish Soap. It’s great for removing sand, debris and fishy odors.
You can get as fancy as you want with your design. I like classic and simple. I base coated the clam shell with 3 coats of navy blue acrylic craft paint, allowing 30 minutes of drying time between coats. Use Google to do an image search for free dog bone image or clipart. I found one and then resized it before printing it out. Use scissors to cut around the design and then traced it onto my shell using a pencil.
I used white acrylic craft paint with a paint brush to make the dog bone. I had to use 2 coats of paint. Once dry I used a BETEM black medium-tip acrylic paint marker to outline the bone and add the dog’s name. While that was drying I added polka dots around the border of the shell using orange and yellow paint markers.
You need to let everything dry for 2-3 hours or until the paint is no longer tacky. Take it outside and spray it with 1-2 coats of clear acrylic spray sealer. I used one that gives your shell a glossy finish. This will protect the painted design and allow you to place your new memorial in your garden.
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Adopting a puppy is a beautiful feeling, and especially if it is your first puppy, it will be a lot of fun for you. It’s an added bonus if the puppy is of your favourite breed of dog, and Goldendoodle Puppies are proving to be …
One of the jobs of pet parents it to provide our pets with exercise and stimulating activities to keep them healthy. It doesn’t matter what type of pet that you have! Our 2 year old cat named Romeo recently got a new cat toy which …
Building tents out of blankets is something that all young children enjoy. When I was growing up my brother and I would spend hours draping blankets across the furniture and coming up with elaborate tent designs. We would then play in them and often times sleep in them later that night. It was always a lot of fun…until it came time to tear them down and clean them up!
As an adult I’ve enjoyed building a lot of blanket tents for our daughter who is now 35+ years old and our two grandchildren age 6 and 12 years of age. Those tent making skills that I learned as a child came in handy when I started having children and grandchildren. They call me the EXPERT designer! LOL
Blanket Tents aren’t just for kids. They’re for cats too! Our 1 1/2 year old kitty, Romeo loves for us to make him little tents and caves all over the house. We rotate the rooms and where we make them. To keep things neat and tidy, we use small throw blankets instead of full-size blankets. He loves to go into them and curl up for a nap. He will sleep for hours in a newly made blanket tent!
The photo shows our handsome guy trying to catch a nap in one that I made on his Daddy’s lounge chair. It’s his favorite chair too!
My grandson loves race tracks and toy cars. He will sit and play with those things for hours at a time…days and weeks at a time if we left him! It’s an activity that he enjoys doing with his Pappy (my husband) on a regular …
If you’ve been following the CBD oil trend, you know that it comes with a myriad of potential benefits. And if your dog suffers from seizures, you may be wondering if CBD oil could help. Click here to see how does cbd work in your …