I love Peruvian ceramics and animal beads of all kinds.   And since I like to help out in dog rescue, these poodles just caught my eye immediately.  Just added a bit of sterling wire, some swarovski crystals for a  bit of sparkle and a pair of heart charms and whipped up a pair of fun earrings to wear with my dog-rescue-t-shirt and jeans.  I wish they had shih tzu beads.

Couldn’t really stop there, and I just had to laugh when I came across these silly smiling puppies, so perched them on some rhinestone rondelles for them to use as pillows/beds.  These guys look like they have been up to something definitely naughty, maybe been into the scotch?

Well it was almost time to cook dinner, but thought I’d do one more pair, and decided to switch to gold-tone.  These gold stone fishes just seem to float along under their amber czech firepolish bubbles.

Our local MNR has come to the rescue and identified my mystery toad, which is actually a frog.  Here’s the word from Jason Ritchie, Grey County Forest Stewardship Network:

Thank you, Jason!  And thank you to all of you who have also helped me out, many of you correctly, in identifying this visitor.

It was a gorgeous day today but things were just not going smoothly, so I thought I’d have a break and do a bit of clean-up in the yard.  There are still a lot of branches lying around from the winter storms.  When I was moving my furniture around, I came across this little fellow lounging on my chair.

He looks a bit greenish in that picture because of the light reflecting off the chair, but he’s white!  He has a bit of green in the markings, but I have never seen a toad like this in my life – and I’ve lived in this province for over half a century.  Here’s some more pics.

And another one:

If anyone has any idea of what kind of toad this may be, I’d love to know