I packed up all the guinea pig stuff after Mabel passed away.  When I fostered Bugsy and Pumpkin Spice back in March, I unearthed a bunch of...

There are a variety of telltale signs when a guinea pig is in residence.  Granted, there's no hiding a cage or the loud wheeking.  But...

Around April Fool's day I often see posts on guinea pig forums about miraculous self-cleaning fleece.  Any guinea pig owner will tell yo...

Most guinea pigs excel at being loafy; Boadicea is a master of chill.  We caught her several times over the last two weeks.  This pig seriou...

I fell in love with this bright blue and green fleece when I purchased fleece for the upper levels.  The light color wasn't good for b...

I had piles of scrap fleece after making new bedding for the guinea pig cage.  Then there's all that fabric I brought home from the Te...

geckos and flowers I recently bought new fleece for the upper levels of Boadicea and Wedgwood's cage.  As usual, they don't matc...

One of the things I love about our new camera is it doesn't need fussing.  The only way I could get my old one to produce good photos wa...

Cleaning Boadicea and Wedgwood's cage is pretty straightforward.  Twenty minutes of pulling stuff apart, wiping the cage down, replacing...

Cage cleaning day!  That's always such a good time.  Boadicea and Wedgwood get weighed, then are let out on the floor.  It doesn't...

As it has been getting colder, Wedgwood has been spending a lot of time snuggled in the upstairs cozy.  She must have learned the one-leg-...

I have written about how badly coordinated the guinea pigs' cage fleece can be.  I've been fleecing the upper decks since 2005;  ...

I recently wrote about using U-Haul pads under fleece for guinea pig cages.  Today I'm writing about how I prepare the fleece for washi...

I made the switch to all fleece bedding all the time just over two years ago.  Before that, only the upper portions of the guinea pig cage ...

This is the last of my fabric purge.  I will be back to a quilting project that I'm struggling with:  should I rip or should I continu...

Poor Cannoli.  She has really taken a shine to the new free-range ramp.  She loves that it's the perfect escape hatch.  If I make a grab...

I'm officially done adding the ramp to the guinea pig cage for free-ranging.  The last step was to cover the whole thing with fleece. ...

Boadicea usually doesn't try to hide from me but she must be practicing her stealth mode, just in case.  Doesn't she match the bac...

September was a slow month for sewing - vacation and several days of not feeling well will do that.  Now that I'm feeling better, it...

Looking at this, one would assume it's the depths of winter.  Granted, last Saturday morning was a bit chilly.  However, the house was...