As you all know, a new pup has come into my household. It’s incredibly great timing because this week’s etsy feature is about dogs!

Good Clean Dog’s products are all natural and gentle on the skin for those sensitive pups. They offer all kinds of products from shampoos down healing salves.

Cory has offered up a great gift for the winner of this giveaway, the Aromatic Doggy Spritzer! Not only does it make your little one smell nice a fresh, but it keeps those pesky bugs off, which is so great now that it is summer.

To enter this giveaway and have your pup smell nice and fresh, you must go check out the Good Clean Dog shop, take a look around, come back and tell me what you think! (and don’t just pretend that you looked at the shop!) Do this by Saturday and you’re in!

Anyone can enter, if you have a dog or don’t. If you don’t, maybe a family member or friend has one that you just adore. Or if neither of those apply, send it to me But seriously, I am all about that bar shampoo and will be ordering some later today for my stinky, little corgi who loves to swim and then romp in the dirt!

A winner will be randomly chosen on Friday. I will forward your info to Cory at Good Clean Dog and your Doggy Spritzer will be on it’s way!

Some of you know of my new found obsession with all things Etsy. I’m kind of obsessed and spend my free internet time finding new things to spend money I don’t really have. Also, I have been featuring some of my favorite Etsy shops here and there on this adorable little blog. Some of the packages I have sent out to bloggy friends have had stuff from Etsy in them as well. We are all about Etsy here at Oh! How Lovely!

Anyway, I teamed up with a lovely new shop on Etsy. Megan and Katie are from Austin, Texas and have a love of all things design and paper and so Second Party was born! Not only am I featuring them, but they are giving away a gift!

They have some really cute stuff up like these note cards.

If those don’t tickle your fancy, there is much more!

Starting today, you will get a chance to own some of Second Party’s lovely work! All you have to do is leave a comment by Friday of what your favorite item is from their shop. That’s it! Pretty easy, right?

We will randomly choose one winner to receive the item they like best on Friday. I will forward your information to girls of Second Party and they will get your prize right out to you.

Get started. Go check out their shop and pick out your favorite item. Once you do that, come back and comment and you’re in!

I saved this shop to my favorites when I first started browsing etsy. I’m kind of in love with these prints. I only wish I could afford one!

How perfect is this?

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I seen this poster a long time ago somewhere else and when I found it on Etsy, I just had to snatch it right up!

sfgirlbybay offers this hand silk-screened reproduction in 8 colors. I chose vintage red, but if red doesn’t strike your fancy there are some other great colors.

In England, during the World War II era, this poster was on display urging British citizens to “keep calm and carry on”. You can read more about the history here.

We can all use that as a reminder sometimes too. Don’t you think?

As you all know, I spoil my little corgi puppy rotten. I just can’t help it, she is adorable! She finally grew out of her first pink rhinestoned (YES, I am that girl) leash and collar a few weeks ago, so it was time to look for another. After trying not to buy out all of etsy’s leash and collars, I settled on this adorable one.

Some of you mentioned how stylish Edie’s leash was in the pictures I posted last weekend. It’s true, I might have the most fashionable pup in all of Chicago. Edie’s leash and collar (close up photo) are from 3POOCHYS on Etsy. It was made custom for my little pupperoo. They even sent me a little button hair tie covered in the same fabric so Edie and I can match! I see me buying more in the future because a pup has got to have variety!

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I’m currently working on paying off three trips, one to Florida in June, one to San Francisco for BlogHer and now Las Vegas in October. I really need to pick up a part time job, as in I might bite the bullet and do retail again.

Living the Good Life and working as a part time nanny doesn’t go hand in hand. How do I deal with this?

Shopping, obviously.

But seriously, I’ve been looking for an every day bag to use for work and and just running around. I mean, really, I can wear my MJ out, he doesn’t deserve that. I also wanted an bag that goes across the body. I decided Etsy would be the perfect spot to look considering my new found obsession with it. So I searched and searched until I came across this lovely little shop.

Infusion
Here you will find a fine infusion of organic and natural fibers such as hemp, linen, cotton, silk, wool, buckwheat and kapok. We appreciate materials the body can relate to. We hope you enjoy too.

I ordered this bag on Tuesday and got it on Thursday.  It’s perfect from the size down to the little details make the bag so much better. Abby was super sweet and even threw in this little tiny pillow filled with herbs. It smells amazing!

Definitely go give Infusion a look. There are all kinds of wonderful bags, pillows and more.

Etsy finds may be a new thing around here. I’ve found so many awesome shops on Etsy so I think it would be kind of cool to put them up every now and then. I’ve already ordered from 5 shops in the past week! Also, no one is paying me or giving me stuff to do this. I just thought it would be fun.