She Needs an Agent

Trinket's mom is possibly a stage mom. Is that worse than a helicopter mom?

Hum.

Anyway, we attended the Cavalier King Charles Annual Fun Match yesterday which is held at a gorgeous mini-estate north of Dallas. Cordova Studios contributed two Trinket Dog Sweaters to the silent auction which benefits Cavalier Rescue. Ok, now to the stage mom part. It was borderline sweater weather but our Trinket was stuffed into little sweaters as she strutted around the grounds. Lots of "darling sweater". "She looks so cute." And, wait for it---"you should sell those". Cue stage mom: " It's for sale, you know." Well, jump to the finish. We sold two sweaters, the Christmas one featured in my last post and a black cocktail number complete with pearls, a little gold bling, and our signature ruffle. Trinket flopped down in the doggie stroller after all that work. It was a good day.

We gave 25% of our sweater sales to Cavalier Rescue to help all those little Cav in need.

Here come the holidays

Can you stand it ? I can't believe I am (a) talking about the holidays and (b) am actually knitting holiday DOG sweaters. I finished this one last night and have cast another one onto the needles in just a little bit bigger size. I think the only thing this one might need are a few little bells. We will be showing it off tomorrow at the Cavalier King Charles Fun Match up in Argyle, Texas, at the gorgeous mini-estate of Ted and Mary Grace Eubank. Over a hundred little Cavs will be there. I love the vendors, who have loads of Cav-themed temptations: ornaments, mouse pads, towels, coasters. Oh, and I take Trinket's doggy stroller for this. In the words of my daughter, "That is just wrong!".

Chagrined Cavalier

Poor Ollie, Trinket's buddy, had to model one of my handknit "Trinket sweaters" I have in the shop. He's about 20+ lbs, seven pounds heavier than ever dainty Trinket. I just wanted to see how big a dog it would fit. Subjecting him to this is the equivalent of dressing your little brother up in a gold lame' dance tutu. He clearly is embarassed and is thinking bad thoughts about me.

A Peek at what's coming for Fall

Trinket got booked for this shoot by Images by Eliza. I am working on these wacky little dog sweaters to market on Etsy and to my fellow fans of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Ruffles are on almost all of the ones for girls. The red and rust one could be for a little boy. I'm having a grand time snorkeling through my stash for color and texture combinations. More to come soon.

It just needs to get COOLER.

100 degrees plus here in Dallas today. Ugh.

Next time we are going to work on Trinket's smile.