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I hit the jackpot on July 20, 2011.   I got 2 Today’s Best Awards!   This I’d rather be golfing apron was the other one.   I actually have 4 different I’d rather be golfing designs and this is my least favorite, personally.   I think the one with the golf clubs (also pictured below on a polo shirt) is cuter if you are going for a generic type design, but maybe that is because I’m a girl or something

This apron also got a little Top 10 Apron views ribbon for July 20th, so that’s kind of neat.   It’s the little things that keep you going in this business sometimes

I’d rather be golfing by idratherb
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I am not even going to try and put these posts in order of the way they actually happened, they are so old.  I am a really bad blogger and I just have to come to grips with that.  So do you, my 2 or 3 readers    You probably already know all this stuff anyway and are just hoping I will get around to posting some cute pics of Tequila soon (and don’t want to hear that I have been super lax in even taking them for the last 6 or so weeks)…on to the topic at hand!

On July 20, 2011, I got a Today’s Best Award for this darling cartoon monkey.  If you know me, you know that I am not a fan of monkeys, at all.  I call them “my clowns.”  This guy is really adorable though.

Cartoon Monkey by totstogs
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Well, I didn’t do very well on my catching up, but I’m going to try and do it this week…and I just realized it’s Friday.  Well I’m going to try and do it this weekend and next week   Shall we take bets on how that goes?

So anyway a really long time ago (July 7, 2011), I am happy to announce that I got a TBA (Today’s Best Award) on this cute little guy.   So far, they don’t translate into sales, but like Sally Field it makes me feel like they like me, they really like me!

Blue & White Teddy Bear by totstogs
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I’m playing catch up..again     At least I’m not going years between posts now.   I don’t know how people manage to do this daily.   I am ok for a few days at a time, but then I just can’t sustain it long term (as you can tell by looking through old posts).

So over the next few days I will be catching things up again.   I’ve been busy, busy, busy so lots of things to update on.

I have gotten a couple more TBAs!  I am always happy for those.  I’ll be doing individual posts about those in the coming days.  I haven’t updated on the diet progress in forever, so that is coming as well.  John and I went to a concert on July 31st, so I will tell you about that at some point.   There are new pictures of Miss Tequila, of course.

In some housekeeping news, I have changed up the links a bit to add some new favorites and to add links to my other websites.   If you are looking for my graphics site, I made it a bit easier to find by giving it it’s own category in the menu on the right, as well.     I need to update that site one of these days

I also added a nifty little widget that tracks how much weight I’ve lost to the sidebar.   I was up to 30 pounds lost, but had a bit of a backslide for some reason recently.  I’m not sure what caused that, but meh.  It’s summer and it’s freaking hot.  Frozen yogurt is going to happen some days    I’m still going in the right direction so that’s what matters.  I’ve been losing weight even with eating the occasional frozen yogurt, so I don’t think that is the issue anyway.

Instead of the obligatory chihuahua picture, today we have a picture of the Poochie Pillow I made for Getty the Chocolate Lab.   I normally made these for toy size dogs.  This one used a full yard of fabric!   The dogs (and cats) really love them though.

When I first contacted The California Chi about some custom work, it was mainly to get some clothes done in Pirates and Steelers fabric (to try and win John over to the dark side of dressing Chihuahuas).   Unfortunately when we went to buy more fabric, we could not find either version of the Pirates fleece anywhere     Fortunately, I was able to scrounge up enough scraps that I had left over to send and get 1 shirt.

Well All That Flutters is on a roll, it seems (and I am behind on getting posts up).   On the 27th, I got another TBA (Today’s Best Award) for a design that was actually done by my friend, Anna.   She painted it based on her Pionus Parrot, Indigo a/k/a Diggie.

I just noticed that this also has a little notice  on it that it was in the top 10 visited buttons for the 27th

Today in the Tequila Wardrobe series, we are going to feature 2 great t-shirts from The California Chi.   These are both from fabric that April had in stock.  The purple camo one is a knit fabric and I think Teq looks absolutely great in purple     The pawprint fabric is a thermal or waffle knit and they are great year round.   Teq loves them even in the summer, particularly because I keep the house a bit chilly for her tastes.

I have been busy lately trying to my new stores up and running at Zazzle.   I decided to get a new domain where I will be able to blog about business stuff, but until that is up and running, I will continue to put a few select posts up here.  I have never posted much about my business on my personal site, but I have also never actively considered it a business really.    I did have one year that I worked on it pretty seriously, but even during that year I refused to call it anything other than a hobby.   I’ve decided that I’m going to try and stop marginalizing it and call it what it is and give in and even try to learn some of the parts that I dread (like self-promotion).

So one of the new stores, is called All That Flutters and it centers around “things with wings.”    John has taken pity on me and is trying to help me get my 3k+ designs up and running in the new stores and learned how to add them in this store.

His work paid off and on June 23, 2011 one of my products earned a “TBA” or Today’s Best Award

Each day they pick 40 or so designs to highlight out of all the submissions for that day.  The competition is pretty stiff, so I am very honored to have gotten a TBA.

I saw a cute robe and wanted to get one for Teq for after her bath, but of course they were all way too huge for her. So I got some cute material and was just going to have April, at The California Chi, make me a shirt for her out of it.   During our emails, I mentioned that I had wanted a robe for Teq, but just asked her for a shirt.  She surprised me with an actual robe, which I LOVE!

Teq also loves it and wears it long after she is dry.  I think she looks absolutely darling in it.

Continuing picture from Tequila’s new wardrobe by April from The California Chi or The California Chi on Facebook.  April was great to work with and her prices are very reasonable.  I highly recommend her.   She custom made Teq’s clothes based on her measurements, which is so wonderful because until just recently Teq could not wear any of the store bought clothes…they were all way too huge for her.    Now she can wear the xxs stuff, but I no longer need it with these  great custom made clothes

Today we are showing off Steelers dresses, which I think turned out absolutely darling.