Hans the Mini Schnauzer - Pictures of the Week

I began tidying up my digital pictures when I got completely sidetracked (ahem... moi?!) looking at my puppy's pictures so I thought I'd share some, perhaps on a weekly basis. This gorgeous first pic is the 'before' ....

...and this gorgeous second pic is the after .... after several months growth, after a very big haircut, after a sleep.....

I'm being a stage mother here (*grin* I actually detest those people in real life with a behind the scenes media career behind me!!) ... and I'm tickling the poor guys chin and shoving a big camera and flash in his face.... but I think he's very cute and good for a smile.

He's had a pretty good evening as we've taken a walk around the acreage and he's woofed hello at the ponies and the baby miniature pony has started coming closer and closer to him - I'll try and get a shot of that soon. He had a good sniff around the kangaroo trails and was very excited when I trimmed a few branches of some of the big bushes in our driveway ... poor husband has had to risk his lovely new car being touched and scratched.

Anyway, just a little quickie to share a smile ...

Cheers all, and thanks for visiting!

Suzy ;)

Baby Miniature Pony - now that's tiny

What a wonderful way to bring in the new year ... (okay, okay I know the calendar is almost on the February page!) .... meet the first born on our property since we've lived here (not including the hundreds of rabbits *grin*!)



And of course I couldn't put a picture up of a new baby animal without showing you my tough miniature schnauzer - and it's rather funny because miniature is not the animal requirement around here - just the way life happens sometimes. His name is Hans and he turned one on January 10 and is a very gorgeous dog! He's also tough. In between these photos loading I let him outside in his yard and there was a kangaroo as tall as I am (not hard *grin*) and he set off chasing it! I was so glad when it jumped the fence. I don't worry as much when Hans is off in the paddocks because the kangaroos can easily run but if they struggle to jump our fence they may feel threatened and attack him. This is the same little dog who has a teddy with one eye and no holes that he takes inside and out with him. Today he had a play date with the neighbours three dogs - what a hoot they all are. If my coffee had kicked in at the time of his depature I'd have taken a photo of the four of them running up our very long driveway to go visiting.


This gorgeous little boy foal is not owned by us but is presently living in one of our little sheds with his mummy, adjacent to a very large paddock with six other miniature ponies - all grown up and all female and one of them 'with foal' so more pics will be coming hopefully. In another paddock we have Felix a gorgeous little man who was very busy servicing these ladies. (You can see pics of the other girls and Felix in a previous blog 'The Pony Cafe')

He looks like a toy I've seen in the shops!

It's been a busy few weeks with school holidays and other things going on and I'm gently starting my working year organising my stock room which is at bursting point! I've got some fantastic things coming and I'm very excited. I've been busy listing exciting things like school books on my ebay store as well as some fab pieces of clothing - Fabulous Frau is having a big clean out!

I've got some gorgeous vintage treasures coming for my website and I'll share them all soon.

I've also been making some gorgeous wristlets which will be appearing on my website soon.


This post is to wish you happy new year and thank you very much for visiting.

I've also been working on my 'page' on Facebook and I'd love to invite you to join as a fan and I'll keep you uptodate with my treasures and more!

Happy January from Suzy aka Fabulous Frau ;)

Bring on the ponies!

Pretty ponies...sorry Felix, you're handsome. He is the little white one - without a hint of small man syndrome!




Oooh, is that a carrot she's holding?


I better run over and check!


I'm coming! I'm hungry like always.


No! It's a camera - drats!!#$@! I don't feed the ponies at all - at the owner's request because they are a little on the chubby side after being fed up big time while in the pound where they stayed for a while after the bushfires destroyed their home. The good news is hopefully some of the girls are with foal - little Felix has been a busy boy!


No carrots so we're not looking.


Check out the hairdo on these girls.






In a ray of light ... it's actually dust but I love this pic.



Peek a boo.... just checking to see if you've changed your mind about the carrots.


Looking down on the middle paddock. I do so LOVE living here. The worrisome thing is how dusty it is in May - there should be mud. Mind you, my darling doggy manages to find some. I took these photos yesterday afternoon - it was a glorious day, even felt a little sunburnt - bizzare. This morning is thick with fog, but I love the mystery of it.... especially when I don't have to drive off into it - *grin*



How gorgeous are these kookaburras? I've sourced these beautiful corrugated iron kookas locally from a man who loves his work! Each edge has been carefully ground down so there are no sharp bits, even on the barb wire decoration. Next week I will take delivery of new my animals; a cow, possum lots of ducks - all made of corrugated iron - I think there are enough real animals around the place for the time being! I love garden art and I most certainly have enough places for lots and lots more - goody, goody, gum drops!! I'll also be selling them from my website if you're interested. They'll be listed next week. Hope you enjoyed the pony tour.

Thanks so much for visiting. For my next posting I'll be sharing some pics of my 'outdoor studio'.
Suzy ;)