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Dec 24

Victory: Photography Project — 44

“A dog is one of the few things that is as it seems.” ~Mark J. Asher

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Well, I completed forty-four installments in total comprising this weekly series entitled, “Victory’s Photography Project 2014!” Not too bad! This project helped me document and share our fur girl’s first year with us! I hope that you enjoyed this series; I have enjoyed sharing our blossoming Victory with you all! I have not decided whether I will continue this series in 2015, or whether I will devise a new idea/series featuring Victory. Rest assured that Victory, my muse, will continue to be featured on the blog regularly!

In other news, can you believe Christmas is tomorrow! I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown by! It hardly seems like it is Christmas already, especially with the warmer temperatures! Today we are listening to Christmas music as we finish getting ready for Christmas, and Victory is helping me make desserts for Christmas dinner tomorrow! Well, it is more like she is watching me make desserts, while desperately hoping that food falls onto the floor for her to gobble up!

Victory is shown below in her Christmas sweater and her cute matching red hat, while sitting in front of her first Christmas tree waiting for Santa! Victory made some eggnog cookies with sprinkles for Santa to set out tonight!

Happy Christmas Eve!

Dec 23

Making A Christmas Ornament with Your Furry Family Member!

Over the weekend, we made a paw print Christmas ornament with our little Victory for our Christmas tree! I love Christmas ornaments and we thought that this would be a nice keepsake as well. I could not photograph the process of making the ornament with Victory because I had to help Doug place Victory’s paw in the putty, and I only have two hands!

It is pretty simple and easy to make a paw print ornament via a kit. Additionally, I am sure that there are recipes to make your own homemade putty/clay as well.

1. Kneed the putty for a minute.

2. Spread the putty out.

3. Smooth the putty.

4. Place your furry family member’s paw in the putty and hold for several seconds. You want to press your furry family member’s paw firm enough to make the paw print, while not pressing too firmly. It is important that the paw is thoroughly cleaned and dry before placing your furry family member’s paw in the putty.

5. Make a circular hole, where desired, for the ribbon using a straw and knife.

6. Place ornament on a cutting board and let the putty dry.

7. After the ornament has completely dried, string the ornament with ribbon.

8. Write your furry family member’s name and date on the back of the ornament. You also can purchase letters to press into the putty to create your furry family member’s name under or above his/her paw print.

9. Spray the ornament with Valspar clear semi-gloss spray (if you wish).

10. Place the ornament on your Christmas tree!

We made a rectangular shaped paw print ornament, which is now on our Christmas tree! (Victory was recently groomed, so there was less hair on her paws to obtain a better print!) We are going to try again and make a circular shaped ornament with Victory’s paw print soon!

Happy Tuesday!

Dec 22

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Victory: Visits Santa!

Victory is ready for Christmas! She got groomed and she got a bath and she looks great! We had a busy weekend doing some fun Christmas activities with Victory! We took Victory to visit Santa this weekend! Victory was such a good girl on Santa’s lap! Victory wore her new Christmas sweater from Quebec that she got while on vacation, and she even let me put on her tartan antlers while visiting Santa! In addition to pink, we think Victory looks great in red as well!

Additionally, here is a link to Biscuit visiting Santa!

Happy Monday!

Dec 18

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Victory: Photography Project — 43

“Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them and filling an emptiness that we did not even know we had.” -Unknown

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, we took Victory to Annapolis for the first time! She had a great time! (We previously took our beloved Biscuit to Annapolis as well.) Victory was all smiles, and we took her to the Naval Academy and walked around historic downtown Annapolis. Annapolis is very dog friendly and Victory was able to go in every store with us! There were many dogs around so Victory sniffed many new friends! We even stopped at Paws, where Victory was a hit! Below are a few images from our adventure together!

Dec 15

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Photographs: Vacationing in Quebec!

Oh my goodness, it is the middle of December already I am not sure where the time has gone! (It was my intention to get through all of our vacation photos weeks ago.) This year went by so incredibly quickly and the last quarter of this year has been especially busy! We went to Quebec in August and September this year, and I have finally had time to finish culling and editing the images from our vacation, our first vacation with our dear, Victory! You can view the snapshot of our vacation here, which I posted upon our return from Quebec!

We started our vacation in Manchester, Vermont. We took Victory to the Orvis Flagship Store where we took Biscuit last spring where he was the Orvis Cover Dog Winner and Centerfold and represented the Orvis Petfinder Commitment supporting and promoting dog rescue! Victory had fun trying out (picking out) the Orvis dog beds and trying on her new Orvis coat!

We stopped briefly at Lake Champlain on our way to Quebec and it was beautiful.

We made it to our lake house that we rented for several weeks in Quebec! It was located on the Lake of Two Mountains and the views were beautiful and we witnessed many lovely sunsets each night! Victory loved the beach and boating!

We walked to the beach and we had a lot of fun with Victory! She loved the beach and we captured her putting her paws in the water for the first time! She actually went into the water and she loved walking on the beach!

We went into Montreal a few times and pushed Victory around in her Hound About – which turned out to be a lifesaver as the city is very crowded and it would have been too stressful for her to walk on the sidewalks with so many people! She rode around in class! Doug and I loved going to the Orange Julep! This has the world’s best orange juice! We also visited McGill University and walked all around a good portion of the city! We went shopping in Montreal and Victory got some new gear!

One of my favorite parts of the trip was taking the route de vines! I am not a big wine person, but the views and the vineyards were really beautiful. Doug figured out the routes and drove us everywhere! Victory loved the wineries and dogs were welcome and, of course, everyone called her a “plus beau chien!” (most beautiful dog!) Of course, we agree! Victory loved the vineyards so much that she often did not want to leave!

Most of all, we enjoyed spending time together; getting away and having a break; having a change of scenery; and having days where we had no plans and were able to take each day as it came! Everyone was so nice in Quebec and the pace of everything was nice and slow! Enjoy some of our images from our vacation below!

Happy Monday!

Manchester, Vermont

Lake Champlain

Quebec — Lake House and Beach

Route de Vins

Montreal

Dec 12

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Victory: Photography Project — 42

“When a dog is in your life there is always a reason to laugh.” -Unknown

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Well, Victory got another cute hat for the Holidays! Below she is wearing her new red hat along with her Orvis hunter green coat, that she got on vacation this summer — more vacation photos are coming soon! She just looks so adorable! Our stockings are up, our outdoor Christmas lights and wreath are up, and Victory and her Daddy are decorating the Christmas tree together this weekend, that we just received in the mail yesterday!

Happy Friday!

Dec 5

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Victory: Photography Project — 41

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” -Josh Billings

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

It is almost the end of the year, and I thought that it would be neat to take a look back and see how far Victory has come physically and emotionally since adopting her in October 2013. The images are shown in chronological order starting in the lower right corner and ending in the upper left corner. Victory has really blossomed, and we feel so fortunate that she is part of our little family!

(The first image in the lower right hand corner is from Victory’s foster mom — the first image we ever saw of our fur girl!)

Happy Friday!

Dec 2

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Victory: Thanksgiving 2014

We hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Victory had a great Thanksgiving! Here she is pictured on Thanksgiving morning going for her morning walk with her cute pink fleece and matching hat, that is a little crooked as she had just shook her entire body! Victory ate turkey for dinner instead of her kibble! During dinner, she placed herself squarely right between Doug and I to ensure she got enough turkey! She did try a little bit of mashed potatoes as well and Victory did not have any complaints! We also took Victory for her first trip to Annapolis over the weekend and she had a grand time! (I will share more on our adventure soon!)

Victory was “on” all weekend while family visited and now she is catching up on her sleep after much excitement! Victory loves her routine and when her routine changes from the norm, we think it is a bit scary for her.

Victory ordered her Christmas tree and she is going to help us decorate our tree when it comes in the mail from Maine in the next couple of days! This will be Victory’s first Christmas tree!

Happy Tuesday!

Nov 25

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Victory: Photography Project — 40

“My goal in lie is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am.” ~Unknown

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

Since Victory has been a part of our family for over a year now, we have had the opportunity to watch every season of the Sons of Anarchy with our Victory! This is the first series we will have watched in its entirety with Victory! We are so sad that this series is coming to an end in a couple of weeks. This is Doug’s favorite show! As such, Doug ordered Victory a Sons of Anarchy bandanna commemorating our time together watching an entire series together! Of course, Victory was very cooperative wearing her new bandanna!

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Happy Tuesday!

Nov 19

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Victory: Photography Project — 39

“When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.” ~Unknown

Beginning in January of this year, I began a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog! I have also been documenting Victory’s milestones so to speak each month — you can read these here! I think that it is fun to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories.

I few weeks ago, I had a photo shoot in northern Pennsylvania for my dog photography project. Doug and Victory came along with me and then we visited the campus at Penn State, where we had lunch at a place Doug recommended and we walked around the campus on a beautiful fall day; and luckily, there was not a home football game! (Doug drove us round trip!) Victory has now visited her first U.S. college campus! (Victory previously visited McGill University). Victory was all smiles; and all eyes were on Victory when I took her photograph at the Nittany Lion Shrine! Everyone loved Victory and wanted to pet her! Fortunately, Victory is a very agreeable gal as long as I hold her on my hip while people pet and fawn on her! Immediately after photographing Victory, a surprise marriage proposal happened! Also, Victory looked so tiny sitting next to the paw at the front of the Palmer Museum of Art! The weather was beautiful and we had a fun time together! Of course, before we left for home, we also got some ice cream, well six gallons to be exact, in dry ice, to take home from the Penn State Berkey Creamery — very good ice cream indeed! Victory had a wonderful time and she did really well in the car as usual! A few photographs from our outing are shown below!

Happy Wednesday!