The Dog days of Summer!

 I haven't talked about the animals in a while! 

Lucky is doing awesome. He keeps Frank in check and is the official food watcher over-er. He guards the food from the cats and makes sure that no one can take his feast. Lucky was a rescue dog that had been abused by multiple owners. His first owners beat him and then his second owners had children with disabilities and the kids were to rough with him, so we took him home and the rest is history. It's been 2 years that we have had him and he was very skidish when we got him and he would cower at almost anything. Since he has lived with us he has become less afraid and more open and playful. He loves car rides and visiting friends and is always well mannered. He is 100% more social and friendly then when we got him. We love him so much and he and Frank make a great team! P.S. I get asked all the time what kind of dog Lucky is and to be honest we aren't quiet sure. We know that he is wire hair Parson Russell (part of the Jack Russell family), but he has brindle spots and we aren't sure what else???

Frank or Frankenstein, is getting so big! He will be a year old in August and we think he's done growing. We acquired Frank on a whim. Jim and I were in Santa Cruz for out Anniversary last year (September) and my best friend sent me a picture of him. She was at the flea market and they had puppies and I told her to get me one and I would surprise Jim. Well Jim knew I was up to something and I told him and he was so mad! He said "I agreed to another dog, and the only thing I said was, no puppies, and Chihuahua, and you got us a Chihuahua puppy!". Well I really hadn't thought of that. I just saw cute puppy and said yes! When we got back home and went to my best friends house to pick him up, Frank waddled right over to Jim and it was love at first sight. I will say that we got really lucky, because I don't normally like little yappy dogs and Frank is not yappy and has almost no behavior problems. I really think that Lucky and Frank keep each other in line.  

 We have 2 cats as well, and we love them too, but our dogs are a huge part of our lives. They go with us on road trips and come with us almost everywhere. I will miss them very much this summer and I don't want to be cliche and say they are our dog children, but they kind of are! Here are a few more random pictures of the boys!

 Have a great day and talk to you soon!

Photo dump

It was getting time to dump off some photos from my phone onto my computer. I thought I would share some photos with you and a little insight into my daily life. Enjoy :)

In the service elevator at work.

sleepy man

Cadell and his Mucho Mamma!

The bathroom rug jacket

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie!!!! yummmm

Frank's tongue doesn't fit in his mouth.

Sacramento bound

Kitty Litter cake for my mother-in-law

Jim accessorizing

Mr. December

am I bugging you?

waffle cup nipples

champagne nipples and caviar dreams

Oreo stuffed Chocolate chip cookies

My running errands outfit.

DIY Jewelry hanger and room tour!

One of the things I would like for the new year fashion wise is to think more about accessories more. With that being said I also would like to be more organized this year. Both in mind, I started browsing the web looking for a jewelry hanger. I love the old looking bird cage ones, and the ones that look like trees. I found lots of cool ones, but with price tags of upwards of $45 I said "I could totally just make one myself!". SO I DID! I found everyday things that I had that would match my room decor and set out on a craft-venture. 

My room is very bold when it comes to color choices. These colors were not my choices, our old roommate painted the room when she moved in, when she moved to Portland we moved rooms so that we could re-do the flooring in our old room, and then we kinda just stayed. The bold red, black and white of the color makes finding things that fit with the decor of our room a little difficult. 

When Jim and I got married we had mix and match vintage china at each table. We had a few left over that didn't match anything so I knew that I could use those in some way for my jewelry display. From there I found some old knobs, wooden thread spools, thimbles, and and champagne corks. Frank promptly came over and stole the corks and chewed them to pieces! 

I decided that I wanted to decoupage the plate with pattern pieces. I grabbed some more stuff that I thought I might need and that would be helpful. 

I decoupaged all the plates and when they dried I gorilla glued the picture hangers on the back. A warning for people using this glue. This was my first time using this glue and it says that it expands, but when my dabs of glue dried they expanded so much that I couldn't fit anything under the hanger. I ended up having to chizzle away part of the glue to make it work, but since no one sees the back it didn't need to be pretty!

After all the glue was dry and all your doo-hickies are attached, lay out your plates in the arrangement of your liking . Nail to the wall and enjoy your new jewelry hanger!!!!!!

With all the photos being taken, I figured I might as well show off my room, so here are a couple pictures of my lovely room....

My old bike wheel, filled with memories!

Pictures of my g-rents, engagement pics, bart cards and more!

My handsome man, kinda looks like Morrissey.

A robot head really works in any room!

Good boys!