Thankful Thursday

On this foggy Thankful Thursday I am thankful for Texas Collie Rescue, they gave me my beautiful baby Oreo.

Oreo is a Border Collie, but they mainly rescue Collies.  The founders of Texas Collie rescue are such wonderful people, they love these animals and actually built a ranch just for all these dogs.  Its pretty amazing really, the awesome barn they have for these dogs, huge backyard to run in and plenty of love to go around.  Like most Rescue organizations they are in need of help, mainly adopting their precious dogs.  If you love animals as much as I do then go and adopt!!  There are plenty of homeless dogs out there who need your love, I know puppies are totally cute, but look at this face

How could you not love this face!!  Ok, well you cant have Oreo he is my baby, but Texas Collie Rescue has plenty of furry friends for you to love on.  Go check them out, donate, or adopt a furry friend of your own.  I love dogs they add so much love to your life and honestly are stress relivers.  I cant tell you how many times I've come home upset or frustrated and that little face melts my heart and makes me feel so much better.

Get out there an help, adopt a pet today!  Enough of my soap box, but Texas Collie Rescue is really who I am thankful for today, because without them Oreo could still be on the street and we never would have found him.

What are you thankful for today?  With the holiday season around Im sure there is something and I would love to hear from you!!

Project Housewife Out!!

Until the Paint Dries...

A whole week has gone by and still the dresser porject continues!  We had a slight hiccup with the sprayer we used for painting the dresser...that hiccup being we didnt know how to use it.  Thankfully my dad is a handyman and was able to help out.  A good tip from him that I will now forever remember for thinning paint is this: you thin it with what you would clean it with.  Wow did I have a light bulb moment!  Unfortunatley for us we had already thinned a good amount of our while high gloss white paint with paint thinner so we had to throw that out.  For a gallon you only need 1 cup of water to thin paint out enough to go through a sprayer, if you over thin the paint it will be runny and leave bubbles on what you are painting so less is more in this case.  Anyway, once we got the sprayer going it looks great!  Now we are off to painting the design on the drawers, waiting for my glass knobs to come in the mail, I need to make the table runner and lastly I think I want to get some contact paper to put in the drawers for a complete finished look.  So needless to say I dont have any great pictures, except for the pretty glossy white dresser put back together...enjoy.

Now, since I dont have much to share today I wanted to introduce you to my baby Oreo.  He is a beautiful Border Collie we adopted from Texas Collie Rescue.  I love this organization, they are the nicest people you will meet and truly love Collies.  Linda heads up the organization and she is just as friendly as can be, so if you are looking for a dog, please please please consider adpotion.  These dogs need just as much love as all those cute little puppies do.  If you are interested in rescuing a Collie you can visit Texas Collie Rescue at http://www.texascollierescue.org/ .  I feel like Bob Barker from the Price is Right when I say adopt a pet, but he always said to spay and neuter them so I guess its a little different.

So here is Oreo:

My loveable little puppy...well not really a puppy come on all of us dog lovers always call our full grown dogs puppies!  Oreo is so smart, we are thinking about teaching him agility...I think someone trained him in the past because he has a lot of actions that make me think he did some training.  If  anyone knows how to train a border collie in agaility please let me know I would love any and all suggestions!!
Project Housewife signing off!