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On Monday, gorgeous designer/blogger Stacy of taffetadarlings was over at my place cutting patterns for her new dress designs while I put price tags on my jewelry ahead of my sample sale. (You can still contribute money to Stacy’s September fashion show via Kickstarter; lots of expenses need to be covered. Lighting is big bucks, as we just found out.) While we were working, Gigi the dog had a violent and extended sneezing fit. She looked terrible: one eye was squinty, one was wide open, her tongue was hanging out the side of her mouth and she seemed dazed. As the sneezes continued, Stacy and I started to fear Gigi was having a seizure so it didn’t seem appropriate to whip out a camera and take her picture. However, after the sneezing stopped, and Gigi righted herself and wandered off to the kitchen to inspect Henry the dog‘s food bowl as if nothing had happened, we regretted the lack of a photo. So here is my artistic impression of Gigi’s sneezing attack. Stacy tells me it’s an excellent likeness!

My work of art.

You can see for yourself by comparing it to this photo of a non-sneezing Gigi taken years ago.

Gigi and me, back in the day.

Next career: courtroom sketch artist!

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  1. It IS an excellent likeness! Wendy, you’re an artist, I would expect nothing less from you!

    Poor Gigi baby. I thought she was going to sneeze forever, like one of those people who actually go through life hiccupping constantly!

  9. It’s a doggy Picasso! I can’t imagine Gigi is allergic to jewelry and fashion? Must have just been an attention-getting ploy. Or she’s allergic to work!

  10. There used to be a bar in the East Village called ST’s that I would frequent and so would this guy and his sketchbook who would drink and sketch the people in the bar. I called him “The Sketcher.” One day he drew a picture of me, showed me and said, “Doesn’t it look like you?” I took one look said, “No, not really” and he got pissed, packed up his sketchbook and moved to another seat in the bar. Your sketch looks much more like Gigi than his did of me!

  16. i needed a good laugh…and i usually gravitate to your blog to get it…this post did not disappoint… =)
    do your talents never end? love the drawing…

  22. How much fun that you went artsy too!

    The exchanges that we had a while back there about what happened have really helped me into redirecting my energy towards my art. You were in there for something. I wanted you to know your ‘angel part’! Dear cyber friend. Hugs!

  23. If the jewellery making business doesn’t work out you have an art career to fall back on! Love the one big eye!

  25. I am going to go ahead and assume that there were literally five-pointed stars in the air and that the dog’s head devolved into a smattering of facial features unattached to a head. So, well done — a perfect likeness. 🙂

  28. Here I was expecting to come over here and see you wearing a harness; imagine my suprise when your similarly-titled post was about dog sneezes!

    When Georgie sneezes she first pulls her mouth open in this weird devilish grin (I call it her Chupacabra face), and then she sneezes so violently that she often bounces her head against the floor. Luckily she’s got a hard head!

  31. hahahaha…. i just sneezed 7 times in a row.
    i guess i had a sneezure like poor miss gigi!
    that drawing is still exquisite.