(Dorie's French Bulldog Wallace) (or beautiful lovely is his other name)

(Michele's dachshund Dallas)

My sister, Dorie, is obsessed with her dog. Come to think of it my sister, Michele, is also obsessed with her dog! I guess that happens when you have a full bred dog. Suddenly you want to buy everything that has an image of your breed of dog. Between the two of them they have collected greeting cards, keychains, stationery or whatever they can find!

On the other hand my wonderful dog, Buddy, that I sadly had to put down a year ago was just a plain old mutt! But he sure was healthy and strong and lived 16 great years!

Since my sisters are forever sending me pictures of their dogs, I thought I would post some for all of you to enjoy as well!

-M.

Truly Mom

These are just some of the wonderful invitations that Truly Mom offers. We carry their album in the store for you to view and order from. Truly Mom is running a special starting now thru the end of March. Get 5 of their invitations for free with the purchase of 25 qty minimum! They are also waiving their $25 set up fee thru the end of March. This whole offer can save you around $50! Yay! We love savings right now!

-M.

Woops! Blog much! Yes, I’ve been shirking my duties to blogland, but trust me it isn’t from lack of things to do! I have been a very busy bee. In January we completely re did the store transitioning from Christmas to Valentines. This is not something I look forward to with all the inventory counting and packing up. Of course it’s always fun to get the new goodies out, so atleast that made me happy!

Bob and I hosted a Super Bowl party during which me and my sisters decided to completely redesign my Living/Dining room. Of course that just opened up a whole new list of house projects that I wanted to complete and that Bob and I are currently slaves to. We decided to paint all of the doors, baseboards and trim in our entire house! This entails sanding every single surface of wood, wiping it down and then painting. (Our neighbors are used to our crazy project undertakings) But with all of the birthdays every weekend, (did I mention that there are 8 birthdays in my family in January and 7 birthdays in February!?), we are finding it difficult to finish our project. I have been living without a single door on the inside of the house for a month! Let me tell you, it is a little strange to go to the bathroom with no privacy! Thankfully our hardware came in yesterday so we have several of the doors up and functioning. The bathroom door was the first up.

In the midst of the incessant dusting caused by sanding we managed to have a wonderful and romantic Valentine’s day and dinner. Happy to have a night at home to ourselves, Bob whipped up a delicious dinner and we ate in the tv room. I set the coffee table with flowers, candles and beatiful dishes. And the best part is that we rented a bunch of 80’s movies and had a movie-thon. Hello Saint Elmos Fire! (This was perfect timing since we were going to my friend’s 40th bday party the following weekend and it was an 80’s theme) Boy I miss those good ol’ days!

This morning I met my sister and friends for her birthday breakfast. That wraps up the last of the birthdays for February. Yay! And that brings me up to date.

There are a lot of great things going on in the store that I will be posting this next week.

Thanks for hanging in with me,

-M.

(Dinner and dessert for Bob's birthday)

(Valentine's Dinner - my niece made the centerpieces!)

(Stationery I ordered for my sister Dorie for her birthday)