Our Life With Cats

I have often written about our crazy kitties.  In 2011, Sassy our 12 year old calico passed away and we added Luna, a Siamese mix, to the herd.  The Girls add such joy and aggravation to our lives it would be a horrible thing to live without them.  Here is a collage of our kitties!

 

Poor Luna is having her "surgery" today.  Hope she doesn't suffer too long!

Completely Random...

Watering The Herd

custom wine stopper order for couples gifts for a September wedding

Suki getting comfortable on the "princess pillow" formerly known as the kitchen chair cushion

Chris's Marbles and Beads at Hastings Art in the Park

custom wine stopper order for couples gifts for a September wedding

The "princess" has perched

Our cutie patootie birthday girls.  Mina (on the left) and Zoe (on the right) share their birthday.  They were born on the same day, in the same hour, 12 years apart and are the only girls in the family!

custom wine stopper order for couples gifts for a September wedding

Another "princess" in the family.  Waiting to have her 14 candles lit on her cake.

I had difficulty finding a topic for the blog the last couple days so I went to our photos and picked randomly from the past couple months to share with you.  Happy Thursday!

My Goodies Have Arrived

Today I got my package of Bead Soup ingredients from Valerie! 

This was the beginning!  A lovely card, how pretty is that envelope!

The card is a Mary Engelbreit card!  I love her designs, they are so happy and bright!  How did Valerie know?!

This fun "paint" can was the container for all my beady goodness!  How cute is it!  I love that the opener is attached to the handle with a pretty ribbon!  I am fairly sure that was Valerie's work and I love how she added the stickers for decoration.  I love this little container, it could hold so many fun things to give as gifts!  I will have to find out where Valerie got it!

Not the best picture of my goodies.  The plastic bags and dimming daylight conspired against us.  I will take a picture when I take all the beads from their baggies.  I received:  2 handmade pendants, handmade wire links, a lacy sterling silver clasp, some black silky cord, mother of pearl rings, freshwater pearls, silver and copper spacer beads, Czech glass, spiny oyster shell, and Swarovski crystal.  All of my favorite things!

The gorgeous dichro pendants hand forged by Valerie!  Aren't they awesome?!  I love them both and they have such different design potential!  The one on the left makes me think of the 80s and the one on the right brings to mind a fall design.  Valerie said in her note that she couldn't decide which to send, so she sent both!  I am a lucky, lucky beader!  I have my work cut out for me to make something to showcase Valerie's beautiful work!  Stay Tuned!
P.S.  My cat, Sabrina liked the Bead Soup too!  I had to pry it from under her to list all the items.  She has a "thing" for paper!

Meet Luna

This is Luna, sometimes called Luna Baboona.  She is our new kitten and keeping Suki on her toes.  This allows both of them to leave Sabrina alone (mostly).  Unlike Suki, Luna has "fluff" for brains, not a lot going on up there, except how to get herself into trouble!

She is very playful and really quite skittish yet, quick movements or startling her will shoot her from the room.  Luna is very cute and has a BIG voice for such a small cat.  Though with the size of her paws, I doubt very much that she will be small for long.

She loves tails flicking in her direction, as Sabrina's is here.  Sabrina...not so fond of this fascination.  Luna also makes typing difficult as she pounces on your fingers and the keyboard!