Sorry - no new coloring pages today. I’ll be working on updating the rest of the “old” pages to the new look - and possibly trying out a little software that just might make it possible for <a href=”http://color-your-own.com”>Color-Your-Own.com to offer printed coloring books.</a> I spent two long days in town last week. A lot of work built up around the house and ranch that needs to be done - some of it quite urgently.
I know so many of you are animal fans, that you will be sure to want to know about FreeKibble.com and FreeKibbleKat.com. You can drop by daily and answer a little pet trivia question. Regardless of if you are correct or not - some free kibble will be donated to shelters that are dealing with a major influx of pets caused by the current foreclosure rate. This was the brainstorm of a 12 year old girl! You kids make me feel so inadequate some times! 
Blessedbe
Summer Fey Foovay
I couldn’t resist drawing some Dachshund coloring pages after hearing about the Weiner Nationals and watching this hilarious dog videos! Hey - here’s a Weiner Winner now!
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Enjoy!
Summer Fey Foovay
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move
finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have
lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They
are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations,
caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners
of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
–Henry Beston
A beautiful article in the Orion online magazine, Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants inspired me to add some African Elephants to the coloring pages. There is a bull elephant, upset and about to charge, a mother elephant and her baby, and a walking elephant that looks like she is in a real hurry to get somewhere. Once I started looking, there were elephants everywhere! There is even a blog devoted just to elephants! I hope you enjoy the coloring pages - and do take time to read the article at Orion, too.
I have a really exciting announcement today! My friend the Savvy Auntie has her website up and running - SavvyAuntie.com. It is devoted to women who love children, but have none of their own - the aunties, great aunts, god mothers, and others who have children to love. Among many other wonderful things - you will find some exclusive coloring pages by - yes, me! The coloring pages up at Aunties are NOT on the Color-Your-Own.com site - and they are also in the form of printable PDF files, unlike the ones on my site. Go check them out - and enjoy the great new website, too!
I am still updating old pages - but everything on the new domain, Color-Your-Own.com is up and running. Just means that some pages will have the new look, and some won’t. It takes a bit of time to update almost 300 pages!
If you have any bookmarks that start “http://demented-pixie.com/”, be sure and update them to the new pages! If you want, you can just change the part that says “http://demented-pixie.com/color-your-own/” to say “http://color-your-own.com” and they’ll work just fine as I did not change any of the page names. If you have links to me on your webpages, please update those also! The new site will have some nifty new “link to me” buttons soon, and you can put the blog widget on your own site or start page, too.
Enjoy!
Summer Fey Foovay
I’m playing with slideshows for Color-Your-Own.com for our new front page. Isn’t this one cool?
Too much fun…
McMurray Hatchery has a number of great childrens books 10% off this week. There is the Barnyard Games and Puzzles, and a Barnyard Sticker and Coloring book, as well as a number of books on the care of various livestock. gardening, and other goodies for your kids who love animals.
I have been having some problems staying connected to the Internet this week - but I hope to be back later today with some new coloring pages for you!
Summer Fey Foovay
I am wrestling ISP demons today, so I’m not sure if we will have new coloring pages at Color-Your-Own or not. However, I just opened my email today and saw this in my Dover sampler newsletter. This “50 favorite birds” coloring book is under $4 right now! No affiliation, just that I am a bird watcher and this is a very nice book at a steal of a price - especially if you are wanting to get your kids interested in birding.
Speaking of which, I have a bird song contest going on over at my birding and nature blog, Naturalist Notebook. You could win a fully loaded iPod and Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds. The contest ends Tuesday, June 24th.
Hopefully I will be back later today with new coloring pages, but we will just have to kind of wait and see how the rest of the day goes.
Summer Fey Foovay
I have a friend, Robert Sloan, who is a talented artist as well as a writer. One thing he particularily enjoys doing is writing “how to draw” articles for eHow.com. His latest article is How to draw a cat’s eye and is part of a series on drawing cats. I just thought some of the talented folks who visit Color-Your-Own.com might also enjoy his How to Draw articles. Even if it does put me out of business 
Nah, I can draw, too, and I still love to just sit down with a box of crayons and a coloring book now and then
Summer Fey Foovay
No affiliation, but I recieved my Dover Sampler today (you can sign up to get them in your email - they’re great!) and it included this book, How to draw animals and I was thought you just might be interested in it!
I got my new ISP yesterday! Wheeee! New coloring pages later today -
Oh, and just a note. So many people are starting new blogs about all sorts of related subjects, coloring pages, clipart, and childrens pages and I do drop by and visit them. However, if you don’t have any way for me to contact you or comment, I can’t ask you to exchange links…hint hint hint.
Summer Fey Foovay
I really need to spend today working on my new blog over at Foovay’s Cauldron. If you are interested, it is a central blog for all of my projects and will also be a place where I can inflict my own thoughts, essays, rants and raves on you poor readers. So if you want to know not only when I put up new coloring pages, but when I put up new clipart or new articles about animals or publish another book or just whatever in all the many things I do you might consider grabbing the feed at Foovay’s Cauldron or blogrolling or whatever
Meanwhile, since I might not get a chance to add new coloring pages here, I thought I’d go have a look at another coloring pages site I ran onto a few weeks ago. HorseColoringPages.net has less than 100 drawings to color, and some of them are hardly more than traced silhouettes - but it depends on what you want the drawing for. They’d be great for stencils or some crafts. There are some restrictions on use, including republishing, so I don’t think you could color them and use them for your horse on Virtual Horse Ranch for instance - so be sure to read the restrictions and be respectful in your use of the free coloring pages.
Go forth and enjoy and I’ll see you tomorrow with some new additions!
Summer Fey Foovay
I’ve discovered over time that quite a few homeschooling people use Color-Your-Own coloring pages and so I’ve started browsing various homeschooling sites. One of the nicest I’ve found so far is Homeschooling with Encouragement and I’m very proud to have been featured on their Wednesday Weblink meme!
I’m also discussing a special deal to put some exclusive coloring pages up as part of a new web magazine/newsletter in the near future - very exciting! I’ll let you know more about that when it’s all ready to go!
Summer Fey Foovay