I have a dog bone kinda like that ---

In memory of my GSP, I wanted to put stamps in each of DuPage County's
off-leash dog training fields. For Green Valley, I was going to carve the words
"Green Valley" inside a dog bone. But I couldn't get the letters small enough.
So I made two halves that will come together to be one big bone -- one half
saying "Greene," the other half saying "Valley." Half will go at the dog
training field, half will go someplace around Tricky Tree Trail.

I started out carving it inside a big paw print and was going to cut the paw
print in half, but cutting a dog paw in half seemed on the gross side to me
for some bizarre reason (I mean, it's only a stamp!), so I redid it using a dog
bone instead of a paw.

I figure that with seven dog training fields in the county, I can eventually
make a "series" of fourteen stamps, with seven different designs, each related
to dogs, and each cut in half. But I only have Greene Valley finished so
far. I thought a Vari-Kennel cut in half from top to bottom might work as one
design, since Vari-Kennels come apart that way. Gee, I could have a third stamp
for the door. :-)

I just have to make sure I find hiding places that don't appeal to
leg-liftin' boy-dogs, so there's no risk of my boxes being watered by anything other
than the local acid rain.

PippiL

Now my next obstacle is cutting a completed image into three pieces for a
series of boxes along a trail.


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]