Merry Merry Christmas!

Isn't this holiday e-card from Lolligag just adorable?

I wish all of you who celebrate Christmas a wonderful day! I love how magical the holiday can be and I hope you experience a day full of magical moments. Take time to make new memories that will last forever :)

Enjoy your holiday!

Officially On Vacation! "OH YEAH!" -The Kool-Aid Man & Macho Man Randy Savage

That's right...11 days of vacation! I love working with the doggies but it's exhausting so a little r&r from the day job is just what I need right now. You would think the last day for a while would be drama free but no, it wasn't *sigh* One good thing did happen though, one of our clients catered our lunch today from yummy yummy Panera bread. It's my first time having it and I really liked it. Their cookies are humogoid too O_O (I have had so much sugar this holiday season, I am getting sick of it............kinda *evil grin*

I received some loveRly gifts from my coworkers too! I got a Hello Kitty Ornament and stocking, a black light/flashlight combo (gag gift because I said I would love to take a black light and go over our floors at work lol), Coldstone Creamery flavored jelly beans, gummisavers, and sour patch kids too!

I got my favorite coworker this awesome print from henri hopper on Etsy. She has a frenchie (who is also Bebe's boyfriend) so I figured she'd love it and she did!

Bebe got awesome gifts too. Here's one of them:

She looks like a pink nightmare!! (If you've seen A Christmas Story, you know what I'm talking about!)

How funny is this little suit though!? I LOVE it...the inside of the hood is a pink and white polka dot fabric that is so adorable and it has matching bunny slippers too! (It's going to take some finesse to get those on Bebe because she hates stuff on her feet.)

Here's the pink bunny suit scene for your Christmas enjoyment ;)

It's almost Christmas y'all!! I can't wait to watch ^^ movie, drink cocoa and sit in front of the fire :)

What magical moments are you looking forward to?? Is it snowing where you are? If so, trade with meee! I want a white Christmassss, waaaaahhhhh ricky! :P

Doggie Love: Boston Terrier Ornament Swap!

As you may or may not know by now, I am a proud member of Woof! which is a Boston Terrier forum for fanatics like myself, lol. Well this year they organized a handmade Christmas ornament swap and you KNOW I'm all about that :D. The only rules were it has to be BT related and handmade. Easy enough, right??

Here's what I made for my swap partner..

I usually don't like to toot my own horn, but I LOVE THIS ORNAMENT!! AHHHHH!! :B I really wanted to keep it for myself, ha! It was really easy and fun to make and I hope my swap partner loves it as much as I do. I haven't received the ornament that was made for me yet, but I will post pics of it as soon as I do. Now all I need is a tree to put it on, lol.

Magical Holiday Imagery ♥

I just love Christmas!! click each image for photo credit ♥

TGIF :) I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Super Cute Handmade Ornament Tutorial!

Isn't this adorable! ♥

If you want to learn how to make holiday ornaments like this, Just Jingle has an awesome tutorial posted here. I just love it! I'm really into having a handmade holiday, lol. I love how all my bloggy friends are making pretty cards, ornaments, and decorating with handmade stuff. The move is delaying my ornament making...heck we don't even have a tree yet :( BUT it's great that I can live vicariously through you guys ;)

Handmade Holidays: Gifts For Your Guy

I have no clue what I'm getting my boy toy for Christmas (I know I'm majorly slacking over here, lol) but I found some super fun potential gifts on Etsy!

men's scent sampler / star wars storm trooper cuff links /  typewriter key cuff links
necktie wallet / chunky cowl scarf / beer cap magnets

click each image to visit their etsy home ♥

 Need some creative packaging ideas? How about using these adorable origami gift boxes to package your lover boy's gifts? Too CUTE!

Kitschy-Cute Holiday Gift Wrap Ideas

 

I'd love to receive gifts wrapped in any of these gorgeous designs! via French Paper

Doggie Love: Shelby & Penny rock!

Thanks so much to Erica and her BTs Shelby & Penny for making our first WOOF! Christmas gift swap so much fun! I think Bebe has sufficiently stocked up this year, lol.


Bebe with all of her gifts: new clothes, toys, treats, and a gorgeous bed!


Penny & Shelby...aren't they cute!?

Merry Christmas, Yall!!! (c) Britney

I hope you're having a wonderful holiday! I am on vacation for 12 whole days, whoop whoop! So I may or may not be posting for a little while. It depends on how much stuff I get done. This house needs major work and I want to dedicate my vacation to some improvements. Anyway, I hope everyone got what they wanted for Christmas...I know I did (pics to come soonish!!)

Enjoy the day and be SURE to watch the A Christmas Story marathon...forget about It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street. It's all about Ralphie damnit!!! You'll shoot your eye out kid !







Happy holidays from our family to yours!!!

I'm DONE!

For the first time EVER, I'm done with all Christmas shopping, all the decoratinons are up, all the cards are sent, and the gifts are wrapped and ready to go. YAY! Now I can sit back and relax while everyone else runs around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to finish up everything. I will also gleefully sit back, sip hot peppermint cocoa, and watch A Christmas Story over and over again on TNT on Christmas Eve instead of buying last minute crappy gifts with all the other slackers, YAY! Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie, YAY!



The gifts are under the tree, The candle lit "mantle", & more cards from the woofers!

Merry Christmas to me!

I bought these charming little bobbles from Anthroplogie today.



Orange Pekoe Cup & Saucer

Originally $20 for a set, they are on sale for $7.95. I got two sets for the price of one baby! YEAH! I love buying Christmas presents for myself...okay really I just love buying things for myself no matter what time of the year it is. I can't turn down a sale though...it's just physically impossible for me!

Do you likey?

O Christmas Tree, babe.

(read the title of this post in an Emril Legasee voice and it'll make sense, lol)

I love Christmas time. Everything is shiny and everyone's happy. But nothing makes me happier than a Christmas tree. I love the way it smells and I love buying shiny thins to put on it. (Did I mention I love shiny things!? lol) This year our colors for the tree are red, gold, and green. The boy lovingly refers to it as our rasta tree. Ya mon.

Well enough of my yapping, sere's Bertha! (yes our tree's name is Bertha cause she's a biggen. 7-8ft tall and she very wide. She makes last years tree look a little anorexic...)

We got her from Whole Foods. She's a Fraser Fir from North Carolina!


The boy wanted to lay it down and put the stand on first. I didn't agree. Who knew you could argue over how to put a tree stand on!? hee.


I guess he was right, blah.


The boy putting the lights on the tree.


Voila! Through the magic of skipping the monotonous decorating pics, the tree is done!


All lit up...all together now, *oohhh...ahhhhh*


close up. once more, *oooohhh...ahhhh*


I made the tree topper. A loverly golden bow with cascading tails. In the words of Gollum, wicked! tricksy! false! It's harder than the internet makes it seem to make a tree topping bow!


From Jill (aka Crebit's mom on WOOF!), a loverly Boston Terrier ornament!


Here is my pretend mantle. We don't have a fireplace, so I cleared all our DVDs off of the top of our entertainment center and made it our makeshift mantle. Me likey! Oh and that's REAL garland. One of the branches off of our tree snapped so I cut it up and made the garland. Eat that Martha Stewart!



I must share a funny story about our tree. Once we got it up and decorated, we started opening the blinds at night so it could be seen from the street. One night the boy went out to smoke a ciggy (bad boy, bad!) and our landlord (who lives next door) and her friend were singing O Christmas Tree to our window, LOL! They'd had one too many glasses of merlot and we got a great Christmas memory out of it...

Another goody...A while ago we noticed that the glass jar that surrounds our front porch light had been taken off. We didn't know why but we just chalked it up to our landlord doing something. Come to find out, it was taken off by our landlord's friend because it was "fucking with her illumination"...the Japanese Maple outside in our front yard has Christmas lights on it and I guess our front porch light was drowning out the lights on the tree...so our landlord's friend turned it off (by untwisting the bulb) so she could enjoy the lights on the tree. Please forgive us, oh gods of Christmas, for fucking with someone's illumination! We knew not what we did by leaving the porch light on! (Now we leave the porch light off *giggle*)