Handmade Store: PitBullLadyDesigns

Useful Art is my wish to create.

Hi, my name is Barbara and I am a "stay-at-home" mom, 4-H leader, dog trainer, therapy dog handler, horse loving farm girl, who loves to sew and do anything creative. I enjoy creating things and especially enjoy watching projects come together.

More photograph's available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitbullladydesigns

Learn the rules and then bend them & learn a new craft or art skill and combine it with another medium to create something new, are my favorites of crafting. I have never met a pattern I didn't want to tweek, a painting design to restroke my way or a book I wouldn't love to rewrite, not really to change another's art but Inspired try something my way.

I have always been interested in animal breeding, showing & judging and have a large store of useless information on different breeds in several specie running thru my brain. But, this information comes in real handy at fairs with the boys and when I'm creating my woolie animals.

My store name came from the mis-understood breed of dog that has lived with me since the 1980's (Old Family Red Nose APBT Sarona line Show Kennel from '83 to '93), and I now rescue/foster with my kids who show them in 4-H. It swells my heart, to see a body builder of a ThrowAway dog obediently & happily prancing around a ring with a 6yo or laying quietly along side the ring for his chance to make his kid beam with pride.

I do Dog Safety Programs with my daughter's Ready (rescue APBT) for local children in school and am known as Ready's Mom or the PitBullLady. A few of these stories found at www.pitbullforum.com and on my blog http://pitbullladydesigns.etsy.com