Hair cut

Shedding Season and Creating with the Kids

Niva is in her shedding season. Am I slightly losing my mind? Maybe! Our couches always have a thin layer of fur, I feel like I can see it in the air, and I can pull clumps of it off of Niva’s body all day. Jimmy and I finally got out our favorite undercoat rakes (yes, we have two!) and went to town on Niva one night this week.

Yard full of fur after brushing Siberian husky

The result was that we had enough fur to stuff a pillow. Hopefully that was the last of the shedding for the season?! Speaking of Niva, she and I did a therapy visit together this week at the school for Deaf children that we regularly visit. We love it there so much! Kids + dogs = pure joy. (more…)

Cutting Sadie’s Hair, Painting with Chocolate, and Drawing

Sadie has been asking for a haircut for a few weeks now. She kept saying that she wanted her hair to be my length. I couldn’t find an opening at our local hair salon that worked with our schedule, so I did some research and cut her hair myself.

I think I took off about four or five inches?! I washed her hair, combed it, and then separated it into three sections. I just cut straight across for each section and that was that. She was happy with it and it looks much less scraggly at the bottom! Is it perfect? No, but it’s good enough! (more…)