This post is in partnership with BISSELL®. floor lamp | X pillow | ottoman | large art We’re often asked how we keep our home clean with two large dogs and the sweetest elder kitty, and over the years, we’ve written a handful of posts on how we stay on top of the dirt, which […]
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Looking Forward
On New Year’s Eve, a friend asked if I was looking forward to the new year. I replied with a smile and a yes, but as I said it aloud, it must have sounded like a question; there was a lot more yes? and a little less yes! I caught my inflection as the word was coming out of my mouth, and I explained […]
Miss Maddie
Over the last several days, your kindness was, and still is, overwhelming. After a medical emergency for our Maddie girl, we had to make the heartbreaking, yet compassionate, decision to allow her go to a pain-free place on Saturday. She was thirteen. It was the absolute worst, but we know it was the right choice, something I’m only […]
Updates Around the Studio
During the last handful of months, we’ve spent time piecing together some of the ever-evolving rooms in the house – the rooms that are done, but not really done. They need something here or there, but it’s not a rush, and so, we move slow. Very slow. Our funny little nook has acted as our One Tail staging room […]
A Very Merry Pet Shop Holiday
As we find ourselves between projects, checking off a few smaller ones and daydreaming about the bigger ones, we’ve somehow found ourselves a week out from Thanksgiving. We have visits from friends on the agenda, we’re digging through dessert recipes to bring to our potluck-style Friendsgiving and we’ve even talked about trimming the tree this […]
Chocolate Chunk
For a little over a week, our house has been warmer, more energized, more chaotic and more comedic than ever before – and we can thank the newest member of our Vargo family for that. Everyone, meet our sweet girl, CC (shortened from Chocolate Chunk, as was dubbed in her adoption description). Those lips! The […]
Last Day for Holiday Shipping
The identities above have been concealed as part of the highly secure Pet Shop protection program – but fret not! For now, they lay safely under trees, tied up with bows, and come Christmas Day, they will rest easy in the homes of their persons. The last handful of pets crossed my painting table this […]
3 Things for a Very Merry Pet Shop Holiday
ONE. It’s October (surprise!), and maybe it’s our late nights of cleaning and gutting our garden unit – or maybe it’s our growing frustration at the lack of tied-up-ends in our home (yes, definitely this!) – but time is flying. November is around the corner, and for the last few weeks, we’ve watched our Pet […]
Painted: Sepperl
With the studio being completely bare – well, except for the new buffet and my teeny, tiny desk (it looks like a dollhouse desk in this room!) – it’s been a challenge to stay continually inspired. Right now, all I want to do is bang on walls, pick paint colors, lay down a massive, colorful […]
Pet Prepared-ness (and That Pesky Litter Box)
It was almost two years ago when we discussed the hairy situation around here, as in, how in the world we keep it under control – and many of you chimed in with your own tips and suggestions, too. Living in small quarters with three (adorable, squishy, cutie) pets can certainly throw some challenges our […]