Poor Froggy

Last summer a good friend of ours gave the puppies 2 squeaky chew toys as gifts:

Tallulah and Chalupa liked Froggy and Piggy just fine.  They played with them some, fought over them some, but weren't rough with them, and thankfully didn't discover that they squeaked.  After awhile the started to ignore Froggy and play only with Piggy. Even if I would try to entice them with Froggy they would want Piggy instead.  Until a couple of weeks ago when someone apparently flipped a switch in Chalupa's head and he went bonkers over Froggy.  Soon, poor Froggy looked like this:

And by the following day all 4 limbs were off and some of the stuffing had been strewn about.  Chalupa goes absolutely bat-you-know-what crazy when he sees this thing, and the hubby can get him completely spazzed out just by picking it up and waving it around a little bit.  Because Chalupa has taken such a shine to it the hubby talked me into sewing all of Froggy's limbs back on and sewing his squeaker back in (I'd tried to surreptitiously dispose of said squeaker because the hubby delights in squeaking it non stop until I want to get violent with him, but got caught, dammit).  So I sewed and the hubby kept Chalupa from attacking me and Froggy until he was out of surgery.  Chalupa immediately took him under the coffee table and went to town.

By the next day he had managed to get all of the stuffing out of Froggy's torso and rip off one of his limbs.  Once again I got the puppy eyes from both Chalupa and the hubby, so here is what Froggy now looks like:

No more torso stuffing, and holes sewn up as best as possible where poor Froggy had been shredded.  He made it through today with all of his limbs, so we'll see where it goes from here.

I know I just did a frog post (exactly 2 months ago, actually), but in honor of Froggy's sacrifice for Chalupa's over-exuberant love, I have to go with more frog shoes tonight:

These frogs seem appropriately sad in light of their brother's plight. (heehee...rhyming)

I posted these last time in blue, but green looks more like a lily pad.

Here is a video of Chalupa-Froggy love.  In the meantime I'll just go back to making up more verses to "Froggy and Chalupa" (sung to to the tune of "Froggy went a-courtin'" of course).

Joyeux Anniversaire Maman!

I started my day today in song.  I sang Happy Birthday to Mom while the hubby meowed in the background (because he is weird.  Usually he howls like a dog, but today he decided to mix it up.  It's actually funnier and cuter than it sounds).  (also, I lied.  The day ACTUALLY started with the hubby waking me up like it was Christmas morning to watch last night's Conor McGregor MMA fight, but I prefer to stick with the singing memory.  It's much more pleasant and less violent).  Anyhoo.  Today is my mom's birthday!  Yay, Mom!  I asked her what kind of shoes she wanted me to post to celebrate the day and she decided on rain boots.  Here is why:

These are pictures of my parents' front yard that my dad sent me yesterday.  And yes, there is a caboose across the street.  Don't be jealous because you don't have one across the street from your house.  The point, of course, is the flooding from the crazy rain they had yesterday.  Dad sent me an email and asked if I wanted to come home and go fishing.  The lot next door used to be an empty parking lot that flooded every winter, and I used to love to put my boots on and go fishing in in the puddle.  Sadly I never caught anything. Probably because I didn't actually have a hook on my line.  Oh, and it was a puddle in a parking lot.  BUT, Mom suggested rain boots since this is their yard and rain boots would be appropriate for puddle stomping.  Here ya go, mama!

 

I typed in green rain boots and everything else was boring or ugly, so I had to add a little blue.  It's OK, Mom like blue, even thought green is her favorite color.

 

She also loves pansies, but I couldn't find any boots with pansies on them.  Instead I got boots with pansies IN them.  Cute and fun!

 

Pansy rain shoes are great for little puddles, but not for giant-puddle stomping.  Would it have been so hard to make these in a boot, too?  Do these people not understand it's my mom's birthday?! 

Look!  Green!  I was actually looking for something inspired by Mary Engelbreit, and these popped up.  They're really cool, but where were they when I typed in green?  So many questions tonight.

 

Huh.  I had no idea my mom had her own line of rain boots.  You'd think she'd tell me something like that considering I have a shoe blog.

 

I just like these.  Bright, fun, and awesome.

Green birthday cupcakes boots!

Mom is a painter, so I thought this was also really cool.  Hey, Mom, I think you should start painting that line of rain boots you have as they're a little plain...

So.  Happy Birthday, Mom!  Thanks for not selling me to they gypsies when I was bratty.

Mooooo

Today was Cow Appreciation Day.  How does one appreciate a cow?  Gift card to the local cow spa?  Extra yummy feed?  Not killing them and making them into steaks?  I'm not sure.  I shall appreciate them by showing you cow shoes.

I think these are cute.  Cow shoes and dalmatian shoes are very similar, though.

These are funny to me.   They cows look a little crazed.

No wait, THESE cows look crazed.

Also cute.  This might be the only way I could wear white shoes since they would hide the dirt.

Highland cow baby shoes!  These are awesome.

These would have been perfect for my interview outfit the other day.

These are cute, but I have to say I like the highland cow ones better.  I'm a sucker for highland cattle after spending a week on spring break with a bunch of nuns who had a herd.  Also, that's just a fabulous sentence.

How did you appreciate cows today?

Turquoise and Black

I've been on a major crochet kick lately.  Any time the hubby and I are watching TV, I'm working on a project of some kind.  Mostly I've been using bits and pieces of yarn I have left over (like the patchwork afghan I made awhile back), or cutting up old t-shirts to make rugs.  This is the latest rug, made from 2 old maxi dresses:

Originally I was just going to do it all the middle color, which was a striped dress of various shades of turquoise.  I thought a maxi dress would go further.  When it wasn't as big as I wanted I added the black layer around it.  I wish the lighting was better so you could see that the middle is a lot brighter than it looks here.  I actually like the way it turned out.  

So tonight's shoes, as the title of this post says, will be turquoise and black.

I pretty much like them all just fine, although the t-straps are my favorite.  I was going to comment on each picture individually, but am not feeling that creative tonight and didn't figure you wanted to read basically the same comment six different times.

I must now take the dumpsters out to the curb for garbage day.  Try not to be jealous.

Weird Wedges

The calendar has given me a couple of interesting choices in wedges this past week.

This one isn't bad, I like the color, and if it were just a regular wedge it would be really cute.  But the fringe is too much for me.  Although these are probably hilarious in motion.

 

Today's shoe is just crazy.  The top part is OK, but clearly that wasn't enough for this shoe designer.  No, there had 2 be another 2 layers.  It looks like the same shoe in both layers, just flipped around and with that strange red ball.  This is insane.  That's all I can think to say.

Obviously I had to go look for other interesting wedges.  I would say these are "interesting" in the Minnesota sense.

 

I find this one "interesting" in the actual interesting sense.  It's very geometric, and I like the colors.  Not sure I could walk in it, though.

 

These make me think of bridges.  Or legs.  Why do my feet need legs?

I kind of like these, too.

And this one.  I like the iridescence, but for myself I'd like a little more arch support.  And by more, I mean any.

Holy crap.  These are like the shoes of a serial killer.  A killer of Barbies, but it doesn't make it any less creepy.  Damn, who wears these?

 

Um...OK.  I guess if you're a big Pokemon fan then this shoe is for you?  And you'll always have your gaming device with you?  So weird.

That's all for tonight's edition of weird wedges with (insert a name that starts with W because otherwise the alliteration is ruined).  I'm going to pray the barbie shoes don't give me nightmares.

Mmmm...Chocolate

Apparently today was National Chocolate Day and I almost missed it!  I didn't find out until this evening when I looked at today's holidays to give me some ideas for this post.  Thankfully I had some chocolate in the house so I could celebrate properly.  To continue that celebration, here are some (more) chocolate shoes:

They're so pretty.  The question is, would they be too pretty to actually eat?

In non-chocolate news, I had an interview with a temp agency today.  It went OK, and they will let me know if anything comes up.  I was way over-dressed.  Not compared to the staff, but compared to the other candidates I saw there.  Apparently we have very different ideas of what professional dress means.  Speaking of outfits, I realized that as I was purging shoes these last couple of times I got rid of all of my black heels.  I wore a black pencil skirt and a black and cream top and had no black shoes.  I ended up wearing last year's Easter shoes:

I still think they're a wee bit slutty, but the hubby loves them.  He thought they looked better than the turquoise pair I originally had on (I thought a pop of color would be nice).  They did coordinate with the outfit better than the turquoise, I guess.  And clearly I need to go black shoe shopping.