Hi guys!

I added some more ice cream scoop hair clips to THE SHOP!

I also recently got my awesome new DINO SHIRT from my buddy Chubby Bunny, and now you can get yours TOO! Go to her website!! It also comes in purple :).

While I am not in the habit of wearing crop tops and belly-baring attire (middle-aged no-exercise snack-eating belly), this shirt was too cute to pass up and inspired a totally 80s side pony!

<

Sooo, Bibi has a cone on her head and some stitches in her face.

Rewind.

When we moved into this house, the backyard was a wreck. Everything was super overgrown and neglected. After cleaning up the trees and bushes, we were left with a big ol slab of concrete in the middle of the yard, which gave the place a prison-basket-ball-court kind of feel. It was a bummer but I kind of ignored it and the entire backyard for a while.

My mom took an interest in re-beautifying it, and helped me pick out and plant a bunch of new flowers and little bushes and ferns. It really helped! But we are now taking it a step further and ripping out half the concrete and putting in lawn! We’re also getting flagstones to cover the remaining cement. It is going to look spiffy out there!

Anyway, during all the back yard work, I figured the dogs would be bummed to not be able to do their business whenever they wanted, so we planned to stay with my parents during this time. We were there for two nights, when my mom woke up in the morning and said, “Do you think we need to take Bibi to the vet?” I had been awake for a little bit but my eyes had been closed, so everything was still kinda blurry. I couldn’t see what the big deal was. All of a sudden, I freaked out! She had two HUGE bloody gashes on her head, right above the eye, and little scrolls of skin scrunched underneath. It wasn’t bleeding very much, which was weird, but I when you can see white-ish fatty tissue dangling off your baby’s face, you kinda want to hurl and pretend it’s not real. She didn’t seem to be in pain, though.

There had been an altercation between Bibi and one of my parents’ dogs and he snapped at her. She has grown up around those dogs but nothing like this has happened before. She also has very thin, delicate skin, and not much hair to protect that skin, so she does run into bushes and stuff and rip gashes in her own skin, but I had never seen anything like this before. It was kind of shocking.

The vet said she needed stitches and might have to go under general anesthesia, so they had to keep her for the day to empty her stomach out as much as possible so she wouldn’t barf from being anesthetized. I felt so bad leaving her at the vet in a crate all day with her face dangling off her skull.

We picked her up later that evening, and she was super groggy, but my parents’ house is very stimulating and fun, and she kept trying to run around and do stuff with the other dogs, while she clearly would also start sagging and collapsing when standing still. We decided that I would take the dogs back to my house and just deal with her condition and also the lack of back yard.

Bibi was not raised to go to the bathroom on walks or tell me when she needs to go. We have always had a dog door so she could come and go as she pleased. She has only pooped once ever on a leash! So I worried about her refusing to poop on a walk! Although her new favorite thing to do on a walk now is EAT CAT POOP. So far, she has still not pooped on a walk. She seems to wait until the workers are done in the backyard, so I can let the dogs out at the end of the day and let them sniff around.

So life has been a bit hectic, making sure the dogs get walked often (but not for too long since Bibi’s pain meds make her tire quickly), making sure to wipe her eye boogers for her, making sure she’s not getting her e-collar stuck on or between furniture, waking up early to the sound of jackhammers, super sleep deprivation due to having to wake up at normal people early hours but still working very late into the night. It’s been an interesting few days, and she needs to have the cone in for like 10 more days! EEP!

I apologize if Etsy orders are getting shipped out a bit more slowly than usual! I’m doing my best to keep up with everything!

I’m putting other photos behind a cut, since I know some people might be curious about what Bibi looks like, but others might not want to see it….

Continue reading →

On Saturday, Manda and I had to run some girlie errands: MAKEUP SHOPPING!!!! We spent an afternoon in Union Square, mostly at Macy’s, where I saw a cardboard cut-out of Justin Bieber and begged Manda to commemorate the moment.

Apparently some rando also wanted to commemorate the moment!

Then of course we had to go shopping for my wedding dress! Just kidding!! We saw these dresses on sale and wanted to be matching forest fairy princess maidens for Halloween, but then discovered that these were the most hideous and ill-fitting bridesmaids dresses ever.

I think that the dark socks really made the outfit.

At first, Manda refused to remove her pants and boots because her boots were too annoying to take off. So she just pulled down her pants in the fitting room and I thought this was classy and hilarious move.

I’m on the right, trying on a denim skirt by Material Girl. I ended up buying it cuz I’m funny like that. I had to buy a huge size so my giant womanly hips would fit in it, and now we have to take in the waist by like 3 or 4 inches. I’m not a girl, not yet a woman. Manda also bought a faux leather coat by Material Girl and it is SOOOOO CUTE!!! Of course I failed to take a photo of the clothing that actually looked GOOD from this outing!

Updating the shop on a Friday night? Sure, why not!!! I know you are all home at your computers working like me! 😛

Cupcake berets coming soon… hopefully in the next 2 weeks :).