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Virgin Carpet

As I woke up this morning and came down the stairs, I carried my daughter Savannah on my hip rubbing my eyes just as I normally do any other day. Attemptting to wake up to her eager cries for her dear little "Melmo", that is what she calls the furry little red guy, I turned on the TV and headed over to make my first cup of java and something caught my attention. I saw something out of the corner of my eye. A something black and in no particular shape.....but it was on my brand new carpet! What could this be? My heart sank! It could not be dog poop because we gate the rooms of every night. So what the heck was it? As I crept over to the black "thing" I noticed that there were strings of some sort coming off of it......what was it? A very large MOUSE! My cat had brought me a "gift" as some of you may call it. My virgin carpet was stained with the very remnants of her trophy! So now I write..... it is not even 7am...I will call this "therapy" because now I have blood on my carpet and have no clue how I am going to get it out. It is in the middle of the room right where everyone can see. I am sure I will be busy today googgling away trying to remove this gift that my cat has now given me....the blessed little thing!

Here is a little bit of history.......We got new carpet yipee! There is nothing like new carpet - gotta love the smell of new carpet! I am now known as the "Carpet Nazzi", no drinks of any kind, no food and no shoes allowed on my new carpet! I put up a doggie gate at night and when I leave to protect my carpet from my pets so they do not harm my carpet. I like to vacuum my new carpet and look and admire the nice vaccum marks - and how perfect do they loook! My Yorkie Rusty has been know to mark his territories when nobody is looking and Jasmine seems for whatever reason to get lazy sometimes and just pee wherever she feels the need. Nope not anymore! I even got all nervous when the TV delivery guys came over to bring in the new TV and walked on my fresh new carpet that was only a couple hours old and they wore their shoes on my virgin carpet! OMG! So you can only think of how I felt when I woke up to a pile of something on my new carpet (speckled berber by the way) and come to find out that it was a mouse, or what was left of a mouse, and I will spare you the gorey details.

So stay tuned, I am sure I will update on the carpet drama and the whole attempt to remove the stain and I have not even thought of how I am going to tell the hubby?

"Sweet Baby Jane"

My latest set is "Sweet Baby Jane" a vintage denim set inspired by the Michael Miller print Dick & Jane. Click here to see the auction.

I had fun with this set and my daughter brought out the sweetness in these great pictures!