Toys R Us!!

 

 

Does your dog have toys? A LOT of toys?

 

Our dogs have tons of toys. We could open a dog toy store with the amount that they have.

 

Now, to be honest, you can't blame them for the high volume of toys. After all, they can't drive themselves to the store to purchase them.

 

I admit, it is me. I am the one that buys them too many toys. They used to actively play with their toys, but these days they really seem to only want to gnaw on some type of chew bone. Even Cooper isn't nearly as playful as he used to be.

 

But still,  we are over run with toys. I hate to get rid of them as I keep thinking that some day, out of the blue, the girls will start playing with them again.

 

Just today I was at Pet Smart, buying food and treats. It was like an undeniable force that literally sucked me into the toy aisle. I can't look at any online pet boutique without checking out the toy section.

 

Sometimes I even bring Stormie along to pick out some toys!

 

 

 

I'm hopeless. Do you think someone offers a 12-step program for this addiction...??

 

 

In my defense (sort of), it still doesn't come close to my addiction to dog beds :)





Crazy Chihuahua Lady

Most of my friends like to call me The Crazy Chihuahua Lady. That's okay, I can live with it. I kind of figure there are worse things to be called, right?

I found this awesome car decal on Etsy recently. I am thinking I may have to get it, what do you think?

If you would like to get one for yourself, you can order it here.

And if you do -- I want to see it!!

Birthday Fun

My birthday was two weeks ago. My sweet husband, Shawn-the-wonder-guy, always wants to do something spectacular and surprising for my birthday, but I am much more simple than that. I always have a long wish list of things I would like for him to do or make around here and I am more than willing to take them as birthday gifts. And anniversary. And Christmas.

So for this year's birthday, I requested new shelving for my fabrics in my studio. As you may recall from my earlier studio tour, it looked like this:

It was functional, but getting difficult to gain access to the rolls of fabric when I needed them. It never failed: the fabric I would need would be on the top shelf, under about four other rolls. Now mind you, these are not small rolls. They are anywhere from 15 - 50 yards of fabric. They can get heavy!

So, after hours on Pinterest and perusing websites such as Ikea, I thought I had the perfect solution.

Only problem was that it involved a trip to Ikea.

Shawn the-wonder-guy detests Ikea. With a passion. Would be willing to do anything to avoid going there.

So, having mercy upon him, plus not being completely sold on the piece that I had chosen from there, we did some other shopping.

I ended up getting two tall bookcases from Wal-Mart. They are very inexpensive and the shelves were the exact measurements that I was wanting to work with. Shawn added some nice molding trim to the top and down the middle where the two pieces meet and suddenly it looked like a wonderful built-in piece.

But I wasn't finished! All those hours on Pinterest were spinning in my head and I decided that the back of the shelves needed something to jazz them up. I found some wrapping paper that I really liked at Target and purchased a couple rolls. Using double-sided sticky tape, they went up in a flash. The shelves were added and then the fabric and suddenly I had this:

I still had to deal with all those huge bolts of fabric, but I had a plan for those also. A quick trip to Lowe's to purchase two large round Brute rubber garbage cans solved the problem. I placed one on each side of the new bookcase and loaded them up. Getting the bolt that I need is now so much easier!!

Now it all kind of looks like something from Project Runway, don't you think?

And I kept room for the dog beds!

But, here is where you all come in. I need to decide something to make the garbage cans look, well, less like giant garbage cans. This seems to be a unique dilemna as nothing comes up when I do a search on Pinterest. You know you have hit a new plateau when a search comes up empty!

So, what would your suggestion be???