Giveaway & A Sort of Rhetorical Question...

The always fabulous & highly entertaining Mrs. Newlywed is having a fantastic giveaway! I guess you should go check it out but don't enter though bc I want that in my house. She is giving away the Pacifica Tuscan Blood Orange Collection. Sounds all fancy shmancy. =) Good luck to those who enter!


Now, sort of rhetorical question time. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy can't my dog get her shit together and learn a lesson? A few posts ago everyone was introduced to Dakota aka The Bear. And I was so concerned for her well being......NOT AT THIS MOMENT ANYMORE! For those that don't know, my dog is a chewer. She ALWAYS has something in her mouth (I swear she's worse than a small child). If I gave Dakota a rock to chew, I'm fairly sure she would chew it. Now, most people don't know that she is destructive like this unless they have heard it from me, or have seen our house. It seems that her & the following items just don't get along so she feels she has to teach them a lesson by attemting to destroy them: corners, baseboards, linoleum, the upstairs couch, plastic, tv remotes and I'm sure many other things that I have yet to discover.

While she has torn up the things listed above, I did get mad but just blew it off. She did lose outside the crate priveledges when we weren't home though due to all the destructiveness. Well, this morning, as I was going to wash the NEW sheets that were bought AS A WEDDING PRESENT, I noticed one of the plastic packages open and wet. Upon further inspection, the plastic was ripped, the sheet was soaking wet and THERE WAS A RIPPED OUT PIECE ON THE EDGE OF THE SHEET. OMG I was livid. L.I.V.I.D. I just dont understand why she feels the need to do this????? I swear she has a death wish! And it was done while we were sleeping! This girl is about to be damned to her grate for every hour of the day! And she's an effin smart dog! How can she be so dumb????

Does ANYONE have any advice on how to get her to stop her chewing ways??? She has raw hides, compressed raw hides, the sterilized bones, ropes etc....all of which she uses on a daily basis but I have no idea why she transitions to stuff she knows she's not suppose to chew on. I'm at a total loss

To Print or To Label...

**Warning: The beginning of this post will be a total Bride Brain Moment. Scroll to the end for some awesome Giveaway's I'm posting about if you can't handle it**

So the Lovey and I have finished cutting all the inserts for the wedding invitations and mounted the main invite in the pocketfold envelope. Now the question.....to print the address on the invitation envelopes or to just print out clear labels and slap them on there. Thoughts? Here are mine...

*Printing the addresses on the envelopes can look just as nice as handwriting them. In my case, printing from the computer is actually better because my handwriting is ugly..uhh..I mean a little sloppy sometimes.
*We are hand writing in everyone's name on the RSVP's already so that there are NO issues (ha, I can't even write that w/o laughing) of random people showing up at the wedding. So that should count for something
*Clear labels caaaan look nice if the right font is used. I don't want to look or be cheap, but damn, at this point, I just want the damn things to be done.
*Plus side of clear labels is I already have them....downside of envelope printing is that I've never printed envelopes on my printer.

Would you be truly offended if you received a SUUPER cute brown and hot pink wedding invitation that had a printed label on it? Or would you prefer something nicely printed on the ivory envelope? And don't even start with 'invitations need to be taken to a calligrapher blah blah blah'....I'm a champagne girl on a Bud Light budget. And handwriting everyone's name and address is NOT my idea of fun. =) Sooooo what do you think? GO!

Awesome giveaways that I want to win, so please don't enter. But I want to tell you about them so that I can increase my chances...I mean, so that everyone can know how awesome the blogs I follow are. =)

Giveaway #1 from the FANTASTIC Kimmie at Full Circle Adventures. She is giving away an autographed copy Jen Lancaster's Pretty in Plaid to celebrate her 500th post! That's so awesome! So go check out her giveaway. But again, don't comment. =)

Giveaway #2 is from the truly entertaining Mrs. Newlywed at Misadventures of a Newlywed in honor of her 1 year blogging anniversary. She is one entertaining fashionista so add her blog to your reader....or just add her to Twitter, that is just as entertaining. But back to the giveaway. I love monogrammed stuff. I want more monogrammed stuff. I love makeup. So a monogrammed cosmetic bag to carry all the make up I love? Yes Please!

Unrelated and more fun

So this is completely unrelated to my previous post and I realized that I forgot to post about it yesterday. Jen from Not Just Another Jennifer is doing a 100th Post Giveaway!

So, I would usually say 'Hey, go check it out' but this time, I would rather you not. Reasons for this are:
1. My birthday is coming up so I want those birthday candles.
2. Sudoku is at the top of my list of all time favorite puzzles
3. I need a new nail polish color
4. I love super cute socks more than you do.
5. The body lotion is the perfect size to fit in my purse
6. I like the green basket

So, while I want lots of people to check out Jen's post, I feel slightly selfish today and totally wanna win. =) Congrats on your 100th post Jen!

I sooo want this!

The totally awesome, always entertaining Kate of Elefantitas Alegres is having a giveaway! You can check it out here. But I prefer that you don't check it out because I want the Lapin Vilardi Bikini Bag to be mine! Mine I say!!!!! =)

Check out this Giveaway!

mmmmmm This is my kind of giveaway! I looooooove cupcakes. Check out Kimmie's blog post about her giveaway at Living in Dallas and Loving It. Now it's time to go make cupcakes...