Pinky Pink PINK - What More Can I Learn About Breast Cancer Awareness Month?

Did you know there are many ways you can help raise money for CANCER RESEARCH and to help Breast Cancer victims? Well CHECK this out
(my source is GAME PINK)

1. COACH POTATOES TAKE NOTE = You can play video games to raise money! Check this out https://nbcf.app.box.com/s/fogb9jfvxgmcbzm0emz5aovxz33v2v2c. If your thing is cracking the gaming code and raking up points, this challenge may be just for you. Gamers gather SPONSERS and then donations are based on amassing points. It couldn't be easier. A lot easier than running a marathon, don't you think? 
   







2. MEGA SHOPPERS LOOK HERE = You can shop and talk your friends into shopping as well at https://nbcfshop.com/. There are so many kinds of merch to choose from. A good place to do some serious Christmas shopping. And the best part - you KNOW the proceeds will funnel right to Breast Cancer programs.
   









3. BLOGGERS and VLOGGERS = Add a donate button to your site and help raise funds without doing a thing. It is easy - just download the code from here https://nbcf.app.box.com/s/fogb9jfvxgmcbzm0emz5aovxz33v2v2c.
   

Halloween Countdown

We took this photo at PetsMart way way back when. The flying pig costume was one of the first Mommy made for me. It was good but too big - especially the hood with nose. It flopped down over my head and I couldn't see where I was going. You see, PUGS have very small heads despite having rather large necks. So hoods are hard to fit.

Mommy also made Molly's cap which does not really stay on her head either. WHY? Because she has a pin head. That's really all. Her head is as small as Sunshine's.

Mom also made these TUTUs for us that year and it looked really great on me.

Sunshine chose to wear it like this.

The Fruitiest Fall

Mommy! What'd you say? My ears are missing! 

Fall my Mommy #2 goes nearly NUTTY. She is nutty all year round but NOT quite as much as during the Fall. It is all about the FRUITS and the jams she makes. She cannot stop herself. And here's the rub . . . she seldom eats jam. Once in a blue MOON she might. But as a rule - no way jose.

Here is a sampling of what the last few weeks have brought

The FIGS were everywhere, she had Asian pears and augmented them with Bosc and Bartlett, a variety of jalapeno and salsa peppers, and lemons. She made fresh Lemon curd, Fig pear jam, Fig and Merlot jam, Ginger Fig jam, Red Pepper Flake jam. THEN THIS WEEKEND she comes home with apples galore, and yesterday she came home with 2 large bags full of LARGE pomegranates. There seems to be no end to this bounty.

Well, there will be and we will all be sad when it ends.

In the meantime, Mommy is busy chopping, jamming and freezing - not exactly in that order. Oh, and yes, eating fresh fruit . . . a lot!

Noodles the Pug - College Senior

Doesn't it seem like only YESTERDAY that we sent MY GIRL off to college? It went by so quickly and here it is. . . SENIOR year. I can hardly believe it myself.

This weekend I spent with Mommy #1 on campus. No, her school is NOT that progressive and does NOT allow students to have dogs (or even PUGS) in the dorm or suites. But Mommy gets special permission to once in a while bring me on campus for a long weekend visit. It is so special and I love it so much. She has a 2 bedroom suite so it is like having space ALL TO MYSELF when I hang out in her room. And we sit together in the common area A LOT studying and watching movies. It is so nice.

Then there is the SOCIAL aspect of a weekend visit. I get to see A LOT of Mommy's friends who also live in the suites or nearby off campus. They all take time out of studying to come by and say HI. What I like most about being on the college campus is the sense of purpose that everypuggy has. It is kinda exciting. I will miss it a lot once Mommy #1 graduates (Spring 2020).

We didn't go a lot of places over the weekend, just hung out together. I really really enjoy doing that. We don't get to often enough.

Today Mommy #2 came by to get me. It was an extra special thing because I got to go to Mommy #1's work(campus job) and meet all the people she gets to work with AND THAT is from where M#2 picked me up. They are some pretty cool folk and I was so happy to put faces with names AND scents. Mommy talks about them a lot - but you know humans, their ability to accurately describe another BEING is quite limited.

I am happy as a clam to be back home. I know Molly missed me a lot. I know Mommy #2 likewise missed me a lot although she won't say as much. She does not want Mommy #1 to think it is NOT okay to steal me away for a couple of days. She thinks like that - my HuMOM #2 does.

Friday is MY Day to FLASH Back

Happy Friday
I decided to take a walk down memory lane today and post a photo of me at 2 years old. Wasn't I stunning? So adorable. I was also a little heavier than I am today. I began to concentrate on keeping my weight down not long after this. Of course, in my APRON you cannot really tell how TUBBY I actually was.

This photo was taken when Mommy and I were testing TREAT recipes for PUGLET'S treat book. It was so much fun to work out what to put in my treats and then TO TEST THEM. Then when Puglet's awesome Mommy compiled them into an e-book, well . . . We still have it to this day.


Here is a photo of me and Molly when she was just a little puppy! She was about 4 months old when Aunt B adopted her. We are both so young in this picture as I am only 3 years old.

We used to go to the park a lot back then. My Mommy #1 was still a little girl and Cousin C was a toddler. It was so much fun. But then again, playgrounds always are when you are a youngun. Mommy #2 thinks about taking us to the park but she just doesn't. Life got so much busier when the kids grew up and their activities were so time consuming.

But once in a while we do walk that way. Sometimes we sit and chat.

Here is ME and Molly in my SNOOPY BED (I no longer have it. Mommy said it was gross). She looks big in this picture - but she is HALF MY SIZE weight-wise but a little taller than me. She really needs ME to be with her because she has anxiety. I am fine when I am not with her because. . . well I don't. BUT it is totally fine with me to be her EMOTIONAL SUPPORT pup because it makes me feel good to help. In this photo, I am 6 and Molly is 3.

And finally, this is me participating in my very FIRST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH (OCTOBER). I was about 1 here. Don't I look very very cute in pink?

Thanks for joining me on my stroll down memory lane. Have a good weekend everyPUGGY!

So Sew!

Hi Everypuggy
I am working hard trying to finish my Halloween costume in time. It has not been quite as easy as I thought. But I am confident I will have SOMETHING done on the day of the HAUNTING.

First of all, I had to find a pattern. That SHOULD have been easy but Mommy has found that ready made patterns DO NOT fit a pug. Even if a PUG is featured on the pattern envelope - it still never quite fits me right. The ONLY sewn costume that ever fit me right was the StormTrooper costume. And MOMMY created that one from scratch using a template online for a HUMAN costume. She's pretty clever, that Mommy of MINE.

Looking around the internets, I found something that MIGHT work even though it is not specifically a PUG thing

It gives Mommy the basic outline of what she needs to cut out. From there we can design something.

The next thing we had to do was shop for fabric. Have you ever BEEN to a FABRIC store before? It is OVERWHELMING. There are so many kinds of fabric and so many colors to choose from. I did not know where to begin!

I mean, do I want something HALLOWEENY or something I can wear some other time or something not HALLOWEENY but good for a costume of unexplained type? There was just so much I had to decide!!! But I did have my socks to build off of and so I took some of them along.

We spent hours. . . . NO DAYS . . . wandering in and out of the aisles comparing colors, textures, and overall CUTENESS. Because, in the end, I want to look CUTE and not scary. I am totally NOT into the scary.

Then it was down to business - cutting out and preparing to sew. This is the hard part but I am pretty sure I can do it. Mommy has to start working on Monday so I am ON MY OWN with this project. Wish me luck. I can sure use it.

Pumpkin Punkin, Whose Got The. . .