I decided to try something I've been interested in doing for awhile now - digital painting.  I've always loved the look of photos edited with textures and filters in a "painterly" style, but I wanted to take it further and have more control over the brush strokes.

No sooner had we decided that we would begin fostering for Speaking of Dogs rescue than this little guy popped up on their website and we realized that what we in fact wanted was a second dog.

Learned a few things on my little photo shoot with Becca, our rescued chihuahua/pug mix yesterday...most importantly, a couple of minutes with a lint roller can save a LOT of time in photoshop.