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Sunday

by canyon critter on February 24, 2013

I love Sunday. I think I say that all the time, though. It doesn’t matter if I have had the roughest week – come Sunday… It is perfect. The mutt love project is going well, there are only 6 of the grey left and about 9 requests for colors. I am not going to ask people to really help me network them until I do get the color. uh umm -Â sally fans… everyone… !! 😉

Remember that wolf pack of sisters I was talking about and I mentioned a little bit the other day. My friend Laura Emily who leads it asked if our clan would come together and support my mutt pack. People all over were changing their banners, their little avatars, blogging about her, networking her – that is why I was in full on tears. Enough money was raised for her vet visit this week, thyroid medicine and xrays for her lungs – $200. Last week, I had two people donate and it totaled 150.00 which payed for a weeks worth of goats milk and her vet visit. I can’t tell you how blessed I feel. I just need this project to get bigger though – the t shirts because I really need to get conrad in for surgery soon.

I would be lying if I said the last two days, I have not been worried about Sally. At night she has started panting and I just don’t know why. Her stools are complete liquid and she feels dehydrated. Yes, I would try pedialyte, but the problems is… she drink a ton of water. She isn’t absorbing anything. They say sometimes you get worse before you get better. I just hope she is on the road to better soon. She is so extremely thin. I am emailing my vet today and when I pick up her thyroid medicine tomorrow, I will also take her in to be weighed, but her next appt is Thursday. PS. the vet just emailed. She is going in for films tomorrow. He is worried it might be cancer… if you know me… I hate the c. word more than anything in the world. My heart feels heavy today. Must be positive and know she doesn’t have it. It is just xrays.

Yesterday, I added slippery elm and pumpkin in with her meat and milk, I was going to add some herbs but hesitant because I don’t know what kind of reaction could be caused with her injections. I don’t know…

Today I am doing another trade for help. A friend who is a communicator is going to help me talk with Sally. It is too hard to work on your own animals with emotions involved.

I am working like a busy bee today.Â I am so extremely behind on trade work and then I need to finish up all the single mobiles on my bench and get them in the shop. OH! I love these little things. They feel like pure magic.

oh. Ps. So go check out the blog posts on Sally over at Laura Emily’s blog, my friend Danielle of Hearth and Field

and she made it on my friend Jo’s blog the art of wildness – so cool! So grateful if you guys could help me share about the shirts. eep! The new batch of colors will be ordered Monday.

and there is also a cool giveaway over here too.

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Sally update.

by canyon critter on February 22, 2013

Sally went to the vet yesterday and she lost 2 pounds – from 28.5 to 26.4 and she should be 32-34 or so but she has only stayed at 30 lbs for the last 2 years because she hasn’t digested any food. Literally, I have been feeding her as much as an 80 pound dog and she was still skin and bones – tried all sorts of enzymes, probiotics… you name it. So this test, these shots to balance her hormones… this could be magic.

She got her second round of shots and this should help her digest or absorb her food – hopefully this week we could even see a change, but it is a delicate balance act of messing with hormones, kidneys and thyroid. My Vet has been talking with Al Plechner and this is the protocol we are following. Her kidneys are pretty stressed and she has a very unusual infection that they still have at the lab trying to figure out what it is. I just hope it isn’t in the kidneys…one thing at time, though.

I now have her on a gallon of raw goats milk a day and I am slowly adding things into her diet and seeing what she can tolerate. If she is allergic to it, her ears and paws get inflammed within hours and if she can’t tolerate it, her stools will also be runny. So I am adding a single raw meat protein source as it is critical she get calories in somehow. I really want to wean her off the goats milk in the next couple weeks because it is costing $20 a day alone. And then I can slowly one at a time add in a potato or broccoli… you get the picture. I will take her in on Monday to weigh her to make make sure she hasn’t lost anymore weight. It is truly upsetting to look at her. She was this weight back when she was sick a couple years ago and ever since then, she just hasn’t been able to absorb food. I will be on my knees if this works. It will work.

but just like Sally… she never stops smiling and wagging that tail. The whole way to the vet, she was in the back seat doing her rolly polly dance. I will have to do a video of it next time. She is kind of famous for it and it is super cute.

I will just be super happy to see this work so I can get Conrad in for surgery.

His tumor is so big and uncomfortable and needs removed stat, but that will be when I get money from the tshirts too as that is $700 with blood work and heart worm test. oy! That is only dog #2. ha but anyways…

I have been in tears of gratitude with all the love sent our way. Some have sent donations and I just… I feel so blessed. My heart is filled with so much gratitude for the donations, for networking my shop, the shirts. I know it will all be ok. It just will.

Thank you…

So today I am working on single mobiles because I have had many people inquire about them. They are super cute. I was making them as necklaces, but I think I like them as mobiles better. I have an idea for a necklaces in this design but I need the studio for soldering it.

So if you are interested in a single mobile, let me know what animal. I will be sawing random totem animals this weekend and putting these beauties in the shop for $25.

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Surrender.

by canyon critter on February 21, 2013

Sometimes, all you can do is surrender.

I knew a wise woman
And she said to me
That the river would mold me
And the wild wind would cool me
The the trickster the coyote
He would fool me
That father sun would warm me
Mother earth would clothe me
Grandmother moon would greet me
And of the old ways she would teach me
Wise woman, she told me
To always walk lightly
Tread the earth ever gently
Lovingly so preciously
And take from her sparingly
She said, to share with others
What you have learned from me
Be still and breathe, ever patiently
For the web of life
Has woven what is to be
But you must still chose
Your own path, you will see
And lastly, the wise woman said to me
To listen to the wise one
That dwells within me
To walk my path in balance
Is too be free
More than just words
So mote it be”…

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Grab a cocktail and stay a while. – winner announced.

by canyon critter on February 19, 2013

This morning under the cool, grey morning skies, I had coffee in the forest behind my house. How magical it is to walk just outside my door and to be surrounded with so much wisdom and love. I love trees. Truly, I do.

I also started making lists again to accomplish things each day. I just have so much to do without them I feel overwhelmed and HOLY WOW! I think I accomplished a mountain today and feel so good about it. so yah, take it from me… lists are good.
I also updated the shop with a few items… I have so many things I am working on and once the studio opens, I can’t wait to start experimenting… Fire. I tell you. I. Am. On. Fire.

There are still a few mobiles that I didn’t put up yet….

So I was so hesitant to share because I wanted it to be a surprise, but Sally is going to the vet again this week and the bills keep piling, so I want to bring some excitement to the table for her fundraiser. I am going to a screen printer tomorrow to talk about getting shirts printed. I can only start with small batches of 12, just tapped out financially at the moment. So just doing what we can! But, do you not love this more than anything. I can’t believe what amazing friends I have. So if you are ever in Asheville and need a tattoo -go see Tiffany at Freaks n Geeks or better yet, go tell her how awesome she is for helping Sally. I am getting them printed on awesome soft shirts – they are going to look freaking amazing!!

So WHO WANTS ONE???

And now for the kicker! I am having a giveaway. Yah, it has been awhile, right!? Well, I made this little rabbit mobile and I have a few other things I am putting in the package too – some lavender bath salts and really whatever I feel like it. It will be pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and if you feel like sharing my shop or blog that would be cool. Really, I will only come after all you guys when shirts are printed and we need to get this fundraiser going ;), but I love ya… So leave a comment and I will pick someone on Sunday, because Sunday is my most favorite day ever!

ps. I will be adding little single mobiles like this to the shop this week! and I am having a 25% off sale: coupon code: sally

Thank you all so very much for entering! I hope to have another giveaway in March!

Jo, congratulations. I will send you an email….

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Crossings.

by canyon critter on February 18, 2013

I sat today in a feeling of overwhelm… I have had this feeling before, I know what sparked it and I wasn’t willing to go there again… at least not right now – not until I have tried. I circled with my clan and had a feeling of release and relief. As much as we doubt ourselves sometimes – it is amazing how much others will lift you up, remind you that you do have wings and they will carry you. To Trust. Isn’t that what my guides said. To trust my gut, to trust that I am something and have things to offer. So I am laying it all out there. I am trusting.

My job didn’t work out and I am not treating my art and herbs as a hobby anymore. I am launching full throttle and will not look back. So sometimes, I might need you to hold my hand if it is hard and remind me that there is no alternative BUT to succeed. The fire must burn bright even in the midst of feeling insecure. I am trusting the universe. I am trusting myself. Life is to short to be unhappy or do things you absolutely hate. I didn’t move here to compromise. So yah. Have I mentioned how much I love my clan of women. I am so blessed right now to have such a pack of wild and fierce souls that have my back.