We're on Remodelaholic!!!!!

Hi! Hope everyone had a great weekend, ours was pretty darn good :)
Today, our little mudroom was featured on REMODELAHOLIC!!! 
If you haven't been to Remodelaholic yet, although I'm sure you have, it's a fabulous site. I feel like I need to start each one of my posts with, "My name is Ashli and I'm a Remodelaholic"  anyways so this blog is the perfect place for me.

If you get a chance today, pop over and check out our little mudroom, and so many fabulous projects Cassity has posted on her blog, and I'll be back tomorrow with some exciting news!

Thank you so much Cassity for having our Little Mudroom on your Blog!!!
My name is Ashli and I am a REMODELAHOLIC!!!

Today is Puppy Mill Awareness Day!!!

 

Today is Puppy Mill awareness Day! 

This topic is much more a controversial topic then we usually cover here at the Manor, but it is something we both feel so strongly about!

5 years ago we adopted Max from a rescue agency, who saved him from a Puppy Mill. He was scared of people, he had been abused and as a result has broken ribs and lost most of his teeth. He's safe and loved now, but still many years later he is dealing with the effects of 3 years in a Mill! In fact, at Max's vet appointment last week we were told that because of Max's advanced dental disease it will become harder and harder for him to eat his food without help. It was so hard to hear, he's    a great dog! and didn't deserve to suffer before and he doesn't deserve to suffer now.   We have to feed him his food by hand twice a day because he can no   longer get it out of his dish, but other then that, and an inch of tongue hanging out of his mouth :) he has no other signs and is the same spunky puppy he's always been.

Please if you are thinking of adding a furry family member, take the time to educate yourself on where your fuzzy buddy is coming from. Puppy Mills BITE!

Puppies aren't products, we shouldn't be buying them in stores. 

So don't shop, adopt!!!!

The Flea's Knees Tees make t-shirts with proceeds going toward rescuing dogs out of mills. Lee and myself have ordered ours, we can't wait to wear them and raise puppy mill awareness.  

Image via The Flea's Knees Tees

 

Flowers on Friday: Lilies

Before I get to today's flowers on friday: the LILY edition. How do you like our new header? I thought that because we are moving and will no longer be in a town home for two, I should probably take that out of the title. I know it's a little premature, since our house isn't sold yet, and we haven't picked a new one, but I like to stay one step ahead of the game :) and once our house sells and we find a new one I won't have any time for header re-designs. So I hope you like the new header.

Also notice, the new sidebar buttons, not all of them are up and functioning yet, so those ones will just re-route you back to the home page, but I hope to have all the buttons fully functioning over the weekend.
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming :)

LILIES, will always have a special spot in my heart. The first time Lee ever bought me flowers it was a bouquet of Lilies, big beautiful pink ones.
Lilies were also our wedding flower, in honor of our first bouquet.

I love the smell of lilies! They can fill a room faster and with more scent then any candle or spray I've ever used. Because we had potential buyers coming through all week I wanted the house to smell fantastic, but I also didn't want to do anything too cliche, like baking cookies. Lilies was the perfect choice, it kept the house smelling lovely all week!