A Week of Puppy Firsts

Another week has come and gone, and this was a week of firsts for Oscar.  Now that he's 14 weeks and all his immunity has kicked in, I feel better about getting him out and starting to expose him to new things and other dogs.

On Wednesday we took him to his first Puppy Socialization class.  I don't really know what I was expecting, but in my head it was a few new 'puppy moms' sitting around drinking tea on fabulous plush couches while our extremely well behaved puppies all frolicked happily together on the floor.

In reality it was in a concrete room with about 30 people, their puppies of various sizes/ages/temperaments, and 1 instructor. 

This was just part of one wall, people lined walls of the whole place.

  








 Oh and Oscar hiding behind the humans.

















  He did do a run through the tunnel though, so that's positive!






 I'm sure this week will be better.  He was just checking things out, and apparently the class won't be so large now as some of the puppies 'graduated' last week.





On Saturday Oscar let us sleep in until 9am!  INSANITY!  So as a treat, we decided to give him his first trip to the beach.  

On the boardwalk at Rainbow Haven

SAND!

We actually saw a tiny Piping Plover on our walk! (Not pictured lol)

Me and my boy!

Frolicking in the Atlantic Ocean

The aftermath... he had a bath once we got home lol

Getting a drink.  The ladies at Tim Horton's were so sweet, they gave him a chili bowl of water to take with us, and his very first Timbit!

We've been waiting patiently to get him out to Shubie for a walk, and Sunday was the day!  He was REALLY over stimulated and pulled the leash the whole way.  He chilled out a bit near the end, but it's something we'll have to work on for sure.

 

It started off a little rainy, but cleared up fast and was beautifully sunny for the rest of our walk.  We saw the usual squirrels, chickadees, ducks and crows, but this time we also saw an actual chipmunk, and freaking blue heron!  So awesome!

All in all another great week for PupPup.  Hopefully this week's Puppy Socialization class will be better, and he can start making some little puppy friends.

Seashore Mini Accordian Scrapbook

So we all know by now what a sucker I am for awesome scrapbook paper.  Well I bought a couple sheets of this awesome Nautical/Seashore paper from Carousel, and as usual, didn't have a specific plan in mind for it.  Well a couple of weeks ago, I sat down and just let the creative juices flow, and this is the end result.

Front

Back

Full view

Pages 1 & 2

Pages 3 & 4

I'm really happy with how this turned out!  The paper I bought was Bazzill Basics Paper called Beach House Shore Collage/Seaside Vines (304277).  I also used some vellum & some cream cardstock I had on hand, Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen to 'soften' the edges of all the sheets, except the vellum.  I made the starfish with a random punch I had in one of my drawers.  I have no idea where it came from, so I'll assume it was a dollar store score lol

On the back cover I used the Earth Art International - Seahorse stamp, plus a cheapy seashore stamp set from Inkadinkado.  The navy ribbon was originally from Michael's a few years ago.

I'm still trying to decide if I was to keep it or sell it in my ArtFire Studio.  I'll update when I decide :)

Beach Music Playlist

I tried out my new playlist, Beach Music, today while I was laying out on the deck.  I was quite happy with it, so I thought I'd share incase some of you are looking for something summery to treat your ears to.

1. Paradise - Coldplay 
2. Bamboleo - Gypsy Kings
3. Summit (Ft Ellie Goulding) - Skrillex
4. Halcyon + On + On - Orbital
5. Sun is Shining - Bob Marley Vs Funkstar De Luxe
6. Do Ya Thang - Rihanna
7. Beautiful People - Chris Brown
8. I'm So Paid - Akon
9. Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
10. Porcelain - Moby
11. Cinema (Skrillex Remix) - Benny Benassi Ft. Gary Go
12. The Veldt - Deadmau5

Please don't judge the songs by the horrible quality of these videos.  Blogspot's YouTube search feature is ridiculously frustrating; every time I typed in a song and clicked on a video it would say "Video player is too small".  So in order to even get a song to work, I had to scroll WAY down to the videos no one ever watches.  Rageface.

**Edited to add**
I figured out how to post higher quality videos!  HUZZAH!  I fixed a few of them for you.

Anywho.  Here they are, I promise they sound amazing in HD :)

Paradise - Coldplay:

Bamboleo - Gypsy Kings:

Summit (ft Ellie Goulding) - Skrillex:


Halcyon + On + On - Orbital:

Sun is Shining - Bob Marley Vs Funkstar de Luxe:

Do Ya Thang - Rihanna:

Beautiful People - Chris Brown:

I'm so Paid - Akon (I could only get this one video to work, and it's 2 Akon songs, the first is the one I had on today):

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince:

Porcelain - Moby:

Cinema (Skrillex Remix) - Benny Benassi ft Gary Go:

The Veldt - Deadmau5:

Are there any songs you can think of that I should add?  Let me know :)