DIY Puppy House!

About a month ago we started a new adventure that is adopting a rescue puppy. We picked up a sweet little Chihuahua baby from Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue in Canmore and brought back her sister who we fostered. (And has recently been adopted, Yay!)

A week before we made the 8-9 hour round trip to bring home our newest family member, I created a special private little puppy house in the hopes that it would help our puppy adjust to her new home (and potentially provide a safe haven from our 10 month old baby that crawls at lightning speeds). The end result was gorgeous and functional, for puppy living and for decorative purposes.

How I Did It:

1. I took a beat up antique cabinet I had been using as a beside table, (that was a tv stand, that was a table for the record player, that was a..you get the idea), and had been in my fiancees family for as far back as he could remember and roughed it up lightly with some sand paper. Lightly being a key word because as previously mentioned, this thing was in rough shape.

 2. Now you have to understand, I am highly ADD, and I probably have 10 different projects on the go on a consistent basis. Along with that I am also highly indecisive so, after standing in Michaels staring at spray paint colors for 40 minutes torn between "Robins Egg Blue" (I wanted) and "Pretty Pink" (My fiancee wanted), I walked out with both. After cleaning off the dust I unloaded a full can of Robins Egg on the cabinet. And of course, changed my mind.

Nope.

3. So after getting over that problem I picked up a second can of Pretty Pink and double coated the whole thing. And all of this beautiful detailing on the cabinet just popped right out. I then used some hot pink latex paint I had laying around from when I painted my daughters baseboards and coated the whole inside. Once it was completely dry I stuffed my other Chi pups bed inside of it with some snuggly blankets and bam. Puppy house. The result was beautiful, and so so girly.

Lesson learned? Listen to Fiancees opinion to begin with and save time and $10.00.

Kali

 Safe haven from busy child: It works.

 Baby Approved!

Perfect for sleeping.

ADD - 1 Mature/Adult/Responsible Side of Brain - 0

I'm leaving for Edmonton today, and last night while I should of been packing, I made myself a whiteboard.

My memory is comparable to that of a goldfish, short term and long term. When shit needs to get done I need it written down and ridiculously obvious and with being a mom, Roller Derby girl, and housekeeper, the "To Do" list is endless.

So I went to the Dollar Giant and bought an 11 x 14 frame like this:

Not exactly like this. Think cheaper, much much cheaper. The cheapest. You get the idea.

For a background you can use almost anything, a cool poster, a cardboard cutout, or a snazzy fabric pattern like this. I didn't have anything cool like any of those things lying around so I took a plain sheet of white 11 x 14 sketchbook paper and put that in it instead. I'm easily bored of things so the beautiful part about this is that you can change your whiteboard background as often as you'd like.

Then I took a picture I had of the number one furry friend in my life and put it in the bottom right corner of the frame.

Then, instead of writing down the massive list of things that need to get done, such as packing for our weekend getaway in Edmonton (or how about just going and packing in general)...

I decided to illustrate my Chihuahua's take over of a large city (Calgary maybe?) by way of Martian alien force. 

(The cape represents her Queen Martian status.)