Doggie Prom - How cute

My friend Kelly and her family went to a doggie prom. Yes, a doggie prom where they chose a King and a Queen and other prizes were awarded.

I was asked if I could make 2 outfits for 2 of her dogs, Daisy, a Papillon, and Lilly, a Jack Russel/ Chihuahua mix.

I made a pink satin and embroidered organza dress for Daisy, with matching hat, and purse, with 2 compartments, so Daisy could store her treats and poo bags. :-)
And all the girls got wrist corsages. :-))

Unfortunately Daisy had a little mishap right before the prom with her sister, so Lilly stepped in and wore Daisy's organza prom dress.
Here she is, Lilly, looking as pretty as can be. Her Mom even painted her nails pink.

 

 

 

Lilly was supposed to wear this Crown Princess sweater set that I made for her, also with hat, and matching purse. Here she is modeling her sweater set.

Sophie also went to the prom in this pretty feather dress:

 

 

And Rosie attended the prom as well:

 

 

 

 There were family pics. Here is Mom, Kelly and Dad, Jim:

 

They elected a King:

 

 

and a Queen:

 

And if you want to see lots more dressed pets - here is a video at the prom:

 

 

Hope you enjoyed. I wish I could have gone with my 2. Maybe next year.

A little self promotion...

I recently recieved the cutest thank you video from a new customer, and now new friend. She then proceded to make 2 more videos of my 2 dogs - promoting my shop. She did such a great job - and the dogs are talking!! I put them together in one video for all to enjoy.




Here is my new customer Sophie in the first hat that she ordered which prompted these videos:




And here she is with her mom, Kelly, in the new St Patrick's day outfit I made for her, with matching visor:

Thanks to Sophie and Kelly for working on these videos. You did a great job.
And Happy St Patrick's Day.

Diana, Giupetto and Gianna

February snow storm

We did not get as much as many all around us, but we did get some awesome 1 foot drifts.
hard to see here, but the dogs were sinking down in the drifts and didn't know what to do - other than come right back inside.
They both were asking to go outside.
So with snow parkas on they step out.

 

Unusual for Giupetto to go out in the snow first, but I think Gianna knew this was deeper and softer than she's ever been in before, so she hung back a bit.

 

Giupetto came right back in, but Gianna decided to check it out a little more.

 

She went around the back of the pot - to the left.

 

Uh-oh - how do I get back. It is hard to see that the drift there is higher than she is.

 

SO - she came back around the back of the pot and again - and ran  in!!

 

This was a little while later - The snow actually pulled the sleeve right off her leg.

 

 

Christmas 2012

Chirstmas 2012 was spent in New York and Pennsylvania this year.

First, of course, we had to have our annual photo shoot and selected our favorites - they are at the end:



My PetsJubilee family on etsy are filled with wonderful people many of whom exchanged gifts, including our secret santa:



I would say the Christmas fesitivities started on Christmas Eve at work, because I took the dogs to work that day, all dressed in their Christmas sweaters and jingle bell collars.
I am sure Giupetto and Gianna had lots of fun. They visited the other offices, and they hung out on my chair and on my desk.
We brought in pizza for lunch in the conference room, and they made friends with my boss, who fed them some pizza, carefully blowing on each piece to make sure it was cool enough for the dogs to eat.




Christmas eve after work we went out to dinner with the family and then went back to John's son's house, where we exchanged gifts. Included in these following pictures is a blanket my DIL Joy had made for us with some great pictures, including pics of Giupetto and Gianna with thier kids. I just love it. I love all of my gifts.





I hope you have enjoyed my collection of Christmas photos.
Merry Christmas to everyone.
May the peace, love and joy of the season stay with you throughout 2013.

Gianna's 8th Birthday - Dec 16, 2012

Hi theres. My name is Gianna, and I just had my 8th birthday.

Moms bought me a really pretty dress from my grandma Pauline on etsy. Mom says we should give the link so any one who wants a dress likes mine can buy one (but not mine because I have that one) PaulinesFashions.etsy.com

 

 

 

 

It is my favorite color blue, and although I am not usually a frilly girly girl I love all the frills on this dress. It has white lacey stuff and blue sparkly stuff, Mom says called sequints, and even the stars are sparklies.

 

And I got a package in the mail of these treats that look like great big bones, but they are really italian cookies called Biscotti. There were 3 in the package and I got one and Giupetto got one but even though I finished mine and Giupetto was still slowly nibbles on his, Mom wouldn't give me the last one. We had to wait a whole day and then share it!!

 

Thank you Grandma Pauline, for making such a pretty dress, and thank you alls for watching my birthday video.

 

((Best viewed if you click on the screen to view in youtube fullscreen.))

 

 

 

Super Storm Sandy leaves it's mark on my town

 

These pics were taken 4 weeks after the storm.

 

This is the lobby of my building.

 

Entire first floor apartment - had to be gutted

 

 

Collected piles of debris line the streets, both sides.

 

 

 

 

Porta Potties are still set up on the streets.

 

Where there used to be cars parked on the street and in the meridian by the shops are now all these disaster recovery trailers and trucks.

 

 

This truck and that hose is attached to my building, still sucking out the moisture and mold after 4 weeks.

 

 

 

 

This sand used to be the street. The sand should be way back to where the board walk is. 

Again this is 4 weeks after the storm and they still have all this sand to relocate.

 

 

We saw cars that were covered up to the roof in sand and seaweed.

And we still saw lots of signs for where people could get free food and water.

 

I sure hope 4 weeks from now there is some significant improvement.

At least we now have power.

Thanksgiving 2012

We went to John's daughter Jennifer's home for Thanksgiving.
This is the wonderful house they moved into recently.
Just such a wonderful place to be. I love the house too.

We took the 2 dogs and stayed over. I think we all had a really great time.

In the past, their dog Lexie and my 2 dogs didn't get along that well, but everyone talked me into bringing them, and they were all right.
I think all 3 dogs have calmed down and everything went well.

Of course they all teased me the whole time about how terrible the dogs were getting along, as I was the only one worried. LOL

Some of the pics in the video were taken by the kids. They love cameras too.

At the end of the short video is a movie clip of Nicholas dancing - it is very cute.
Enjoy.