My New Home

Greetings, World! My name is Amber Rose.  I am a pet rock belonging to a young woman named Sarah, who rescued me yesterday from the creek near her home.  I was originally just supposed to be a souvenir from her walk, but it didn't take her long to decide to make me into a pet.  Today she spent a couple hours making me a home where I can be comfortable when she does not want me.  Here is the photo story.

This is a picture of me on the rug in Sarah's bedroom.  If you look carefully, you can see that my natural markings sort of give me a face.

This is the box we selected for my home.  It is smallish, but it has high sides to keep me safe and a lid for when I need to travel.

The first thing Sarah did was to cut some sheets of white paper down to size and set them in the bottom.  This will make clean up much easier.

A rock can't stare at blank walls all day! Here I am watching Sarah draw murals for my walls.

The finished pictures.  There is a puzzle in rainbow colors, a big pink tulip, a house on a hill with a tree nearby, and a series of colored circles.

The following four  pictures show the murals hung up on my walls.  The flash at close range messed up the colors; my apologies.  In any case, first we have the tulip...

The house on the hill and the tree...

You can't see this one at all, but it should be the puzzle...

...And this one, which you also cannot see, should be the circles.

Here I am with my food box.   Those snipped-up bits of yarn are what I eat.  The brown-and-blue ones are my typical daily diet.  The pink ones are treats; I get them on special occasions.  Sarah gave me two to celebrate moving in.

 

And here is my bed.  I chose the bedding from Sarah's scrap box.  The corner of the bed and the corner of the food box leave only a very small corridor to my "bathroom," meaning I have to turn I my side and snake through.

This is a shot of my whole room, with the camera looking down from above.  There wasn't much space left for toys, so we focused on what was most important: a teddy bear to snuggle at bedtime, two marbles (which will probably get used more outside my room), and a little purpler alien, because Sarah and I both felt that something was missing and this was what we could find.

Here I am in my room, facing away from the food box.  As I said, a bit snug, but Sarah and I are proud of it nonetheless.