Today was the long-put off day that we were supposed to be making dormice soft toys. We'd seen some toy dormice that cost over £30.00 each, so obviously we weren't going to be buying those and I had the bright idea of making the children each a dormouse instead. We'd put it off for several weeks, tho' and so when I was ready to start 'mousing up', I couldn't find all the stuff I'd bought to make the dormice with so I listed several more things in our vegan shop
www.veganation.co.uk - some really lovely natural handmade incenses (Vanilla Orange, Coconut, Sandalwood and Frankincense..mmm!) and handmade incense holders, and some little candle and incense gift sets- all fairly traded and all absolutely gorgeous- gifts that anyone would be happy to receive!
Then, I found the dormouse bits and pieces: pieces of grey and white fur fabric, pink and grey acrylic felt and safety eyes, and we were in business. It took us about three hours but at the end of that time we had three dormice ready to be photographed realistically outdoors, just the way the Kosen soft toys are displayed so effectively in their promotional photos. One of these pictures is a dormouse made by Kosen which costs over £30.00 and the other three are our dormice which cost about £10.00 to make the three!
We were just about to have our supper (jacket potatoes and home made baked beans!) when we spotted that one of the VegaNation cats had caught something; we all piled out into the garden as quickly as we could and were able to rescue the little creature which turned out to be a vole. Our experience of voles is that they are very, very susceptible to shock and find even quite short periods of captivity very difficult to cope with. We've rescued a lot of voles and also a lot of woodmice and they seem to react so differently from each other- and why shouldn't they, I suppose, they are completely different kinds of creature. If woodmice survive the first hour or so, almost no matter what their injuries, then they usually survive, whereas the same doesn't seem to be true at all of voles. Even when they seem to have made a full recovery they sometimes seem to 'crash' and die, so we always feel most stressed when we have a vole that has been caught as we really need to get it back out into the wild as quickly as possible.This one seemed ok, was very keen to have some homeopathic Arnica in water and then we took it to a safe release site and let it go.
If I've whetted your appetite for shopping at our adorable little vegan online shop or you just think we sound lovely, then please come and look at all our lovely stuff at
www.veganation.co.uk.. If you haven't hugged a vegan today, at least buy one a Pacifica bath gift set!!
Today was the long-put off day that we were supposed to be making dormice soft toys. We'd seen some toy dormice that cost over £30.00 each, so obviously we weren't going to be buying those and I had the bright idea of making the children each a dormouse instead. We'd put it off for several weeks, tho' and so when I was ready to start 'mousing up', I couldn't find all the stuff I'd bought to make the dormice with so I listed several more things in our vegan shop www.veganation.co.uk - some really lovely natural handmade incenses (Vanilla Orange, Coconut, Sandalwood and Frankincense..mmm!) and handmade incense holders, and some little candle and incense gift sets- all fairly traded and all absolutely gorgeous- gifts that anyone would be happy to receive!
Then, I found the dormouse bits and pieces: pieces of grey and white fur fabric, pink and grey acrylic felt and safety eyes, and we were in business. It took us about three hours but at the end of that time we had three dormice ready to be photographed realistically outdoors, just the way the Kosen soft toys are displayed so effectively in their promotional photos. One of these pictures is a dormouse made by Kosen which costs over £30.00 and the other three are our dormice which cost about £10.00 to make the three!
We were just about to have our supper (jacket potatoes and home made baked beans!) when we spotted that one of the VegaNation cats had caught something; we all piled out into the garden as quickly as we could and were able to rescue the little creature which turned out to be a vole. Our experience of voles is that they are very, very susceptible to shock and find even quite short periods of captivity very difficult to cope with. We've rescued a lot of voles and also a lot of woodmice and they seem to react so differently from each other- and why shouldn't they, I suppose, they are completely different kinds of creature. If woodmice survive the first hour or so, almost no matter what their injuries, then they usually survive, whereas the same doesn't seem to be true at all of voles. Even when they seem to have made a full recovery they sometimes seem to 'crash' and die, so we always feel most stressed when we have a vole that has been caught as we really need to get it back out into the wild as quickly as possible.This one seemed ok, was very keen to have some homeopathic Arnica in water and then we took it to a safe release site and let it go.
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