Parsnip's Icky Sticky Day

Seriously, Dog, WHO STEPS IN GUM?!

Parsnip and I brought lunch to the Hubs today and hung around the Irvine Spectrum to do some shopping. After I toted her around Forever 21 trying to decide which tank tops to buy, I figured it was Parsnip's turn to do some browsing of her own. She chose to check out the fire hydrants outside the store, and next thing I know, there's this big blue wad of gum on her paw! We headed over to the pet store and a nice lady wiped off the majority of it before we headed home.


She's smiling because her gum-stint cut our shopping spree short and she didn't have to go to Old Navy.

OC Doxies event at Muttropolis Fashion Island

Parsnip and I belong to a Dachshund meetup group called OC Doxies. My super talented pet photographer friend, Lou of Scratch and Sniff Photo is the organizer (more on her later, she deserves her own post!). All the cool dachshunds in Orange County come to our events! This month's event was at Muttropolis at Fashion Island. Naturally, we had to wear new outfits for such a fancy venue!

On our way to Muttropolis, we stopped by the Apple store to see if we could get our free bumpers. We left empty handed, but not without a photo op of Parsnip in front of a ridiculously large netflix envelope!

Muttropolis was SUPER accommodating. They had treat bags for every dachshund and cocktail weiners and wine for the 2-legged guests.

Parsnip had a great time meeting up with her doxie friends, and I had a wonderful time catching up with my pal Lou! (I was too busy pulling Parsnip out from under displays where she was eating falling snacks that I didn't have time to take any pics. Both of the pics from Muttropolis are courtesy of her!)

We love the OC Doxies group! If you have a dachshund and live in Orange County, you should DEFINITELY check it out!

(you can see my dachshund clip!)

The Reason for my Absence

Oh em gee has it really been over a week since my last post? Let this picture explain:
Parsnip has 2 yorkie cousins, Rocky and Wolfgang. My sister and brother-in-law decided to high-tail it to Mexico, so we got the luxury of yorkie-sitting! Parsnip really enjoys having her cousins here. She lets them sleep on her couch and play with her toy. She even shares her mommy and daddy with them!

The only problem is that the yorkies don't play back.

Long story short, I took the week off to tend to the furry beasts in our apartment. But back to our regularly scheduled ramblings...

Parsnip Gets Mail!

Parsnip never gets mail! I wonder what it could be!

It's from Aimee of Metamorph Designs! About a week ago, Parsnip lost her tag in the ocean. If you missed that story, you can read about it here.

As soon as she opened it, she gave her new tag a big kiss! (Notice the fabric scraps on the ground? Yeah, welcome to my world)

Here's our favorite part...the parsnip on the back!


Thank you so much, Aimee! We love it!

Matching Yellow Stripe Outfits

This skirt was supposed to be a really cute sundress. I spent all afternoon cutting, ruffling, measuring, and it looked like a prairie dress that I would use to churn butter. I even had bright ideas to turn it into some type of strapless dress, but I finally came to the realization that the most flattering outfit for my body are skirt and tank separates. At least I made a sad attempt to tie the two together by tying a scrap of material to my shoulder!



When I was taking these pictures, Parsnip looked at the dress, looked at the fabric scraps, then looked back at me. 10 minutes later, this is what happened:

Thanks to the freakish July gloom socal has been experiencing, Parsnip has been moping on the couch all week long. Despite wearing her sunny new yellow striped dress, she has taken back her throne and is currently watching reruns of Whose Wedding is it Anyway.

Rollerblading in Balboa

The Hubs works for a private company that gives all floating holidays, so he wasn't originally planning on taking today off. After waking up at 6:30, getting dressed, driving all the way to his office, only to find NO ONE there, he came back and we made plans to do something completely crazy. It was the perfect day to take Parsnip rollerblading at the beach.

Our original plan was to rollerblade from Venice to Santa Monica, but since it took us 2 hours to drive back to the OC from Pasadena last night, we opted to the much closer Balboa Island. I'm really glad we decided on the closer venture because 2 minutes into our adventure, this happened:
That's right. The Hubs snapped off my rollerblade strap. It was so loud that a passerby even let out an audible, "Oh no!" But since my dad gifted me with his humongo large calves, I was able to rollerblade without closing the top strap.



Parsnip and I sported our matching striped dresses and we turned many-a-head as we zoomed by. She even got to ride on the ferry to Balboa Peninsula! Parsnip was a trooper and didn't even laugh when I totally ate it coming off a curb. The Hubs bought me not one, not two, but three desserts to mend my wounds.

Happy 4th of July!

Here's what Parsnip and I are sporting today. I whipped these up yesterday after holding onto the fabric for at least a month.

I got the flower fabric at Joann's because I just had to have it, despite it being $5/yard. It reminded me so much of Liberty of London and it was just the right amount of patriotism for our Fourth of July outfits.

Here's a better picture of Parsnip's dress. I'm thinking about putting it in the etsy shop because I have leftover material.

See Parsnip's tongue action? She's excited to go over to her Auntie's house to play with her Yorkie Cousins! We're off to see the Rose Bowl Fireworks in Pasadena and eat our fill of hot dogs and corn bread!