The dog days of winter

It’s been a while since I shared our foster dogs with you. And I also don’t think I told you that we added a new dog to our crew! We officially adopted our foster Gizmo last August :-) There really wasn’t much choice, hubby and Gizmo obviously have a little somethin’ somethin’ goin’ on ;-)

I call Jackson and Gizmo our Brothers From Another Mother ;-) Here they are celebrating their birthdays in style :-)

Our foster puppies Cane and Chloe were adopted in September, and they’re both in great new forever homes :-) Cane and his new mom stopped by for a visit last week – our cute little boy is growing up to be a very handsome dude :-)

Chloe loves to hold paws with her big sister :-)

Wally stayed with us for a few days in October till he hitched a ride to his foster home near Toronto.

And then we had two fosters arrive in mid-October, Jazzy…

…and Boo…

Jazzy was adopted after just two weeks, and then a few weeks later Sparkles arrived.

Boo was adopted in mid-December, and the same day that he went to his new forever home, Henry the honourary Catahoula arrived!

Sparkles went to her forever home a couple of weeks ago, and Henry will be going to his forever home this coming weekend. And then hubby and I are planning to take a break from fostering for a bit! But I have a feeling that isn’t going to happen, because there are always dogs that need to be saved, and I just can’t not help! So I’m sure I’ll have another foster to show you soon… stay tuned!

Elephant love

Way back in April, I told you about an awesome item that I won in a blog giveaway at Mix And Chic – a wall mural from Murals Wallpaper in the UK. Well, it took hubby and me FOREVER to decide which mural we wanted. I, of course wanted something coastal and beachy. But hubby wanted trees or a landscape. What to do, what to do… why, an elephant, of course! This is the mural we finally agreed on:

Last year, I was totally blown away by a kitchen on The Block that included a huge rhino photo on the wall in the eating area:

Images via The Block Shop

So the elephant caught my attention because it has the same sort of vibe of a really big cool animal waling towards you :-) And hubby likes that it’s also got landscape, which kind of makes you feel like you’re right there. All in all, a great compromise that we’re both really happy with :-)

We’re going to hang the mural on a wall in the basement, and the whole space is going to be designed around it. No, it won’t be an African safari ;-) What I really love about the elephant is that it lends itself to any kind of design…

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At the speed we get renos done around here, it’ll probably be three years before our elephant makes it out of the shipping tube and onto the wall! But as soon as we’re got him up, I’ll post some pics.

Thank you Mix And Chic and Murals Wallpaper!