Assembling a DIY Dog Easter (or Any Occasion Gift) Basket

Today's doggy DIY combines crazy pet-parent with a dose of practicality to create positively pawesome dog-friendly Easter baskets.  Special occasions are a good opportunity to refresh any worn-out pet necessities like collar, leads, harnesses, etc. as well as indulge in a few new toys or treats.  You can use this as inspiration for any occasion doggy gift giving, and a basket of goodies is a great idea for gifting new pet owners as well.  Here are our tips:

DIY Pet Pillow Boxes + Party Popper "Christmas Crackers"

My dogs LOVE tearing into boxes, paper, cardboard rolls... they're avid recyclers, always happy to help break things down for the bin! :)  Today's post shares how to prettify your everyday recyclables into pawesome holiday/party wrapping and pressie packaging for pets (or anyone you please!).  It is shared in collaboration with our partner blog at Creativity Unmasked, where you can discover how the easy homemade custom bone, paw, and word stamps were created with instructions for creating your own. Yay!

DIY Decoupage Photo Gift Tags + Ornaments {Guest Post}

Hey there furfriends!  Today's special Christmas post of the day will follow, but we wanted to let you know that we've shared a pawesome pet (or people) craft on our partner blog at Creativity Unmasked.

DIY Monogram Dog Donut Soft Toy with Squeaker

DIY Birthday Candle Dog Tug Toy

How to Make Dog-Friendly Edible Birthday Candles

{RECIPE} Turkey Meatloaf Birthday Layer Cake

Humphrey's Second Birthday (Sneak Peek)

Cinco de Mayo Puppy Fiesta Fun

DIY Dog Tug Toys (and Birthday Party Wrap Up)

Free Printable Dog Birthday Cards, Tags, and Labels

As our final (official) post of Oli's 10th birthday celebration week, we have a present for you (and your dog friends)! Here is a free set of pup-tastic printables. Since Oli had a rainbow pawty, we have bright and cheery colours for you to choose from, and you can to mix, match, and combine between or within sets as you wish. 

{RECIPE} Layered Meatloaf Dog Birthday Cake

How to Make a Reversible Dog Bandana

Oli's 10th Birthday (Sneak Peek)

DIY Easy Sew Over-the-Collar Bow Tie for Dogs

Easy DIY Dog Party Cracker

Here is the final share from Humphrey's first birthday! Humphrey enjoys helping with the recycling of all varieties, but he has a particular fondness for toilet paper rolls.  On his birthday, I made two very simple "party cracker" inspired treat tubes (one for each dog - nobody wants a birthday fight!).  These are a fun little novelty to add to a doggy celebration (I think we will make them for New Year's!).

 

{RECIPE} Tasty Turkey Meatloaf Dog Birthday Cake

Our next few posts will share the DIY details from Humphrey's first birthday, and what better place to start than with cake?  This is a party after all, so what not have the cake first! There is something about a nice tall layer cake that really makes it feel like a special celebration, isn't there?  The smell of meat cooking in the kitchen is a really exciting event for our dogs. For personal reasons, I converted to a vegetarian diet some time ago and hubby also limits his consumption, so meat isn't usually on the menu unless we are cooking for guests or (of course) the pampered pets. Since I wanted this cake to be more of an indulgent birthday dinner than a dessert, I opted to make it meaty - much to the joy and delight of my salivating sous-chefs.

Humphrey's First Birthday (Sneak Peek)

 
Our baby is (almost) all grown up! Humphrey celebrated his first birthday in style last week,along with his adopted "brothers", Oli (who has done a great job of mentoring and tolerating a puppy!) and Tiger (with whom he has reached a cautious truce). It is hard to believe that he was ever quite this small:

Spotted: Party Time Polka Dot DIY

It's time for your weekly Sunday smattering of spotty DIY goodness! It's party time - polka dot style!