cats

Scotch has earned the nickname “Needy.” Now I have photographic proof of what I mean. I’d been drafting a pattern, cutting, serging, and stitching all day. Apparently Scotch felt a wee bit neglected. I finished a seam on my machine and was getting things pinned for the next step when Scotch did this.

Um, yeah. You think I talk about the cat a bit, but I don’t think you get it–he is in my business 24/7. Unless he is having Scotch Time–his alone time generally from the hours of 9am-10am.

He was soooo not moving either. His butt is wider than the machine and he’d stand up every minute or so to stretch and immediately settle back in. Crazy cat.

I thought his tail hanging down was a bit cute. At this point he’d been sitting on the machine for about 15 minutes. He was determined. I wanted to get back to sewing–I had a party to get to and wanted to wear my new skirt–and Scotch was looking a bit worn. That couldn’t be comfortable on his behind.

I bribed him with “his” blanket. It didn’t take much effort, just bringing the blanket it and setting it on my table and patting it a time or two. He jumped down, ran over and immediately took a nap. Clearly he is not made out for tree sewing machine sitting.

Peace,

^_^

I’m not sure if this has ever happened to you, but I picked out some cute fabric, fubbed up a simple little pattern, trying to convince myself a human being could be this small and then thought about buttons and found some lovely doosies that happened to be the exact colors I needed. I’m sure this will most likely never happen again, but there you have it. Things do work out once in a while. And apparently humans do come in this size, because the adorable two and a half month old I met was actually smaller than this!! Maybe I made the skirt length a bit long, like twice as long, but you never know. Her dad is 6′2″ so she has some long legs to live up to. This marks the first baby gift I passed along to a seminary friend.

I didn’t take photos of the other onesies–I know it is insane the amount of time I spent making those little onesies and didn’t take a picture, but still. Let’s just say St. Louis got the best of me. I frantically sewed on the plane and during our brief respites to actually finish said onesies and dress. And we still managed to make it to no less than 7 food-based met-ups with St. Louis friends in two short days and a night. Whew. It was packed and I needed a vacation to recover from my vacation.

So I’ll leave you with a picture story of the process I use to cut apart old T’s.

There you have it.

Peace!

Today started off by sleeping in. Ah, I love sleeping in. Last night we joined a friend for her birthday bash. We started by bar-b-quing outside of their place. Then we all carpooled up to the city to Mad Pianos (careful the site plays music), a dueling piano bar. It was way too much fun to sing along and enjoy!

Then I was off to where I volunteer to get my kitties’ shots. Lucky Scotch didn’t actually need them and only Sake was stuck with a needle. She was very brave. Scotch, however, continued his shot-getting behavior of being the WCE (Worst Cat Ever).  He hissed at everything and everyone and started up several fights with Sake–they were in the same carrier. Sigh. At least kitten season is starting and I got to check out these babies. That made the trip more enjoyable!

This mama lost her two other kitties.

This mama had the prettiest coloring, a Tortie/Siamese mix!

After kitty duty, I made my way to host a Greeting Card Make and Take. It was so much fun. I got to meet a lot of people, and get to know a few others even better.

Here’s a fancy birthday card.

All the stamps and what-not scattered around.

Lovely photographer shadow and stamps on a test page.

Now, I’m sitting down to watch Slumdog Millionaire. We’re also planning on using the leftover pizza dough from last weekend to make some yummy mushroom pizza.

Peace!