Valley Animal Haven Animal Shelter Volunteer Appreciation

February 15, 2016January 23, 20165 Comments

Ahhh! A day off from school here is in the U.S.! Teachers always treasure these days! So do the kids!

My preschoolers still talk about the day ‘the other Miss Pam’, from Valley Animal Haven Shelter came to school and brought a dog and cat to visit. They loved being able to donate food and other items to the shelter. A couple of weeks ago, Pam, the director and our friend, had a Volunteer Appreciation Open House, so of course, our whole family was there!

I took care of the decorating, since that’s what I love to do! I drew the design on the chalkboard above and made the banner below from dog scrapbook paper. Lauren and I had gone to the 99 cent store for tablecloths and found these awesome pawprint balloons!

Remember the burlap pieces we stamped with pawprints? Here they are decorating the food tables. This is the ‘sweets’ table.

Yummy! The cookies on the bottom are some of my favorite!

There were also chips and dips, and fruit and veggie trays.

The sign-in table was full of paw-prints!

Aren’t these beautiful! Love all these bright colors on a dreary day! These were given to some of the volunteers who had donated more than 300 hours of time in the past year!

Each volunteer also received one of these special pins with a wonderful thank you!

There was also a drawing for door prizes. Haley won the sign ‘You Had Me At Woof” and Steve won the ornament.

Pawprints and kisses!

Here is one cutie, Hannah, to say hello and thank you! She even dressed up for the occasion!

Here is the whole group. There are many more volunteers out there too, but these are the ones who came for this special occasion. Pam is the 6th one from the left in the royal blue shirt.

This was an incredible year for Valley Animal Haven. There were so many special people and businesses who gave time and donations to give the shelter a great first year. There were portable buildings, kennels, food, pet supplies, a trailer and many more items donated. There were several grants awarded to the shelter and even a money award for a contest that was entered. The most important part was the adoptions and saving the animals. There were 385 cats and dogs (and 2 rabbits) placed in ‘fur’ever homes in 2015! It is so amazing and such a wonderful thing Pam and all the volunteers are doing for animals! We are so blessed as a family to be part of such a great and amazing organization.

Corner News-January 2, 2016!

January 2, 2016January 1, 201610 Comments

Welcome to the first official post of 2016! 2015 was an amazing year, but we want to make 2016 even better.

But, before 2016 even got started, we took a family vacation to Morro Bay. This beautiful beach destination is only about 2 hours away from us, so it’s nice for a day trip.

After we arrived and had lunch, we started walking down the street for some shopping. But before we could get anywhere, we saw some seals sunbathing on a deck. Why not take a picture of them?

Next, we did some store looking. It’s like window shopping, but we actually go into the store and look around. This particular store always has these star lights in it, so Haley and I like to look at them. Of course, I took a picture of the pink ones.

Next, we went to mom and my favorite store. It is called the Garden Gallery and it has some beautiful items that it has for decoration. They had a lot of Christmas Trees up that had different decorations.

I also saw this adorable old fashion car in The Garden Gallery. How cute is it?

So after all of our hard shopping, we had to go get candy. There’s a great little place called Kelly’s Candies that we get all of our sweets from. Haley decided to pull an Ariana Grande and “lick” the candy before taking it home.

But the staple of the store is the Dutch mints. They are hard candy shells with a soft mint inside. Mom and I always buy a bag or we will be sad.

And finally, we made it to the beach! It was an absolutely beautiful day, so why not make a video to document the day?

I hope that you enjoyed our little mini vacation. It was a great way to spend our New Years Eve and it was a great way to start off the new blog year!

Happy New Year! It’s 2016!

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Happy New Year!

We are looking forward to what 2016 has in store for us here at Home on the Corner!

Merry Christmas!

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Merry Christmas from our family to yours! We hope you have a wonderful, memory filled day!

Blessings from Home on the Corner

Our Holiday Fashion Show

December 21, 2015December 20, 20154 Comments

Just a few more days till Christmas!! Aahhh! Are you ready! I think I am set. Just have to get the food for the parties, but I didn’t want to buy it too early. Now that the present shopping is done, the house is decorated, the cookies baked, it’s time to think about what you are going to wear to the get-together’s. What? You don’t know yet? Well, Lauren and I are here to help! We put together a few different outfits that will hopefully inspire you with pieces you already own.

First, we took the same black skirt and styled it two different ways. I wore it with a blue and black print flowy shirt, black tights and boots. I added this blue/black tweed jacket which I found for $7 at a local thrift store. Lauren is so jealous!

To style, take a basic black skirt, black tights and boots, and match it with a print top and cute jacket or coat. I chose blue and black because I wanted to use my ‘new’ jacket, but you could use any color combination.

Here is Lauren in the same black skirt. Hello. Lauren speaking. I took this black skirt and added a cream lace top that I purchased from the coast. I put a cream tank top under the top and a chain and rhinestone layered necklace. To finish the look, I wore my black quilted boots that I absolutely adore! This look is young and cute and I could wear this to every party that I go to.

My second look for Christmas is a little more casual. I paired white jeans, (yes, you can wear them after Labor Day :)), with a soft grey sweater. I like how this sweater has a drawstring to gather the top and also ribbing around the wrists and waist. I gives it a little dressier look. I added a pearl and silver long necklace and grey flats. By the way, this is where Chica starts photo-bombing all my pictures. LOL!

If it’s too cold for flats were you live, try skinny jeans and boots.

My second outfit is a blue dress that I bought from Forever 21 early last year. I love how it looks and it is really comfortable. I added some brown boots that I bought from a local store that look very similar to my black boots. They are so comfortable!

Also, is it time to open presents yet?

This look is a red shirt-dress from Walmart. It is still available online and it’s only $10! Here is the link. It has tiny white polka-dots all over. I actually found this one in the store, but when I asked, the salesperson told me it was a return from an online order. I paired it with black footless tights and black flats. I think the red makes it more festive.

My third outfit also includes the color red! I have a pair of red skinny jeans that I wear with just about anything that I can match them to. I wore this with a cream shirt that has black lace on the sleeves that was originally Haley’s that I took when she didn’t want it anymore. I wore it with my favorite black boots and a black and silver flower necklace.

Here are a couple more just so you can see Chica! This is simple too. Grey jeans and a white sparkly top. Again, you could use boots instead. I would use my grey boots, except they are wrapped up under the tree right now! A silver bracelet and earrings and you are set!

My final outfit is one that is full of comfort. I have a pair of jeans that I purchased from Maurices and a grey shirt. I added grey shoes and “borrowed” Haley’s grey backpack to complete the look.

And why I am laughing so hard you may ask? Kiara, the cuddly cat if you remember from an earlier post, was standing on an end table and I was calling her. Well, mom snapped the picture as I was calling her and the picture turned out funny and the picture that you see before you is the result of us laughing. LOL!

My last one is a long grey sleeveless dress with a turquoise sweatshirt over the top. The dress is actually for summer, but with the dark color, it works for winter too. This is a bit more casual, but oh so comfy! Black boots and a big black bag finish the look. (Do you see the other photo bomber in the corner?)

Well, I hope this gives you some ideas for festive outfits for your holiday get-togethers! Maybe you will find a new favorite outfit! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

For unto us a child is born, for unto us a Son is given.

Isaiah 9:6