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Needy

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.

Needy Exhibit 1

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.

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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.

Needy Tail Closeup

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.

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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,

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Sweet Sake

How Sake’s whiskers on the left side of her face all broke off. She wasn’t really into getting her photo taken so they are all blurry. This is the best we could do. And no, we know they were not singed off.

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Poor, silly  kitty.

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Decorating

After checking out blogs like Chez Larsson and  Three Men and a Lady, I get inspired. Like Chez Larsson, I hope to graduate from my hodge podge mis-match of random sized and shaped plastic containers for uniform ones. At the same time I have a rather limited budget. And I’m constantly amazed by the used furniture deals Michelle is able to find and what she is able to do with them over at Three Men and a Lady.

Needless to say, it isn’t often that I’m inspired and have the necessary tools on hand for instant gratification of my often ridiculous schemes. So while flipping through the most recent Vogue magazine, I was struck with an amazing decorating project. I giggled with giddiness as my idea hatched into a full-blown plan. Eric knew that he was expected to groan with worry over what I might do. So he obliged, making the process so much more fun.

I decided the kitties needed some motivation so I decorated their food area. Ta da!

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I must admit I still giggle every time I walk by. The cats haven’t seemed to notice the picture–typical. Here’s another view.

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That is amazing isn’t it?

Peace,

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I love glow-in-the dark eyes that are peeping out on us as we surveyed our carved pumpkins lit with candles for the first time. This little munchkin and her brother were just the excuse we needed to offer to reenact last years’ Halloween chili party and in effect invite ourselves over for the evening.

Here are the pumpkins!

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I carved the second one (below). I don’t remember the last time I carved a pumpkin–clearly it had been too long. All I know is now that I’ve graduated to real knives, as opposed to the rounded jagged “safety knife” with an orange plastic pumpkin handle, I could probably carve anything on a pumpkin. Easy peasy!

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I can’t take credit for the design–our friends’ 3rd grader was the designer which was just fine with me–I’m definitely in the middle of a huge case of creative block.

Here’s the famous Halloween chili. The picture is a bit gross–but it tasted amazing. The second year in a row for this–I think I see a tradition being born!

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We can’t forget the cornbread cake. Yes, there are equal portions cake mix and cornbread mix in this concoction! Delicious!

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And they were giving out the best halloween candy ever. Real sized bars of the trick or treaters’ choosing.

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Here’s the brother kitty showing it off. Such a cutie. Unfortunately we must be bad luck, because there were very few trick or treaters. :( Maybe a total of 15 or so.

So for the other adventures, we managed to snag a few steals at the REI gear sale this weekend. Here’s a dog tent our friends were setting up to check out. Eric couldn’t resist trying it out.

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Peace,

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Kitty Loving

Well, we’ve got some new kitties to talk about. We’ve managed to trap 3 of the 4 kitties that were living in our backyard. Now we just have mama and her super-skittish kitten. They won’t go near our trap and the kitty runs away from everything. I feed them first thing in the morning and at dusk. They are getting more comfortable around us, so I hope that we’ll be able to catch them and work on getting them more socialized, fixed and hopefully adopted–preferably together as they are very close. Anyone in the Bay Area need a few super cool and cute kitties?

Here’s the typical interaction with the outside kitties (named “Mama” and “Baby Kitty”) and Sake and Scotch. Sorry the video is sideways most of the time :/ They like to sleep on our back door mat.

Peace,

Katy

Kitty Loving

I guess my kitties knew I was posting about cats, and not them. I guess their behavior isn’t atypical, I just happened to have my camera nearby. Enjoy the obligatory gotta show cute photos of my own kitties to not show favoritism to the little kitties outside post.

Here’s Sake’s Sunlight Vignette.

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Look at those shadows!

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Striped back end.

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She kind of looks like a jailbird.

The next set is something I found upon returning home after watching our softball team play last night. It is really kind of sick.

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Excuse our half-folded laundry. Look at the top left.

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They are totally holding hands!

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Scotch is a bit embarrassed.

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More hand holding.

Well, now that I’ve thoroughly disgusted you with my kitties’ cuteness I promise not to do that again–too soon.

Peace!

Kittens

These cuties have been occupying a bit of my time. I’m lucky to volunteer for an awesome organization, Humanimal Connection. Eric and I’ve been slowly making friends with this cat family living in our backyard. Mama is super-sweet. Once she is spayed–hopefully this week–she’ll be available for adoption. She is great–trust me I’ve thought about keeping her for myself, but Scotch and Sake have made it clear they aren’t interested! We’ve caught two of the kittens and the other two are missing. We think (and really, really hope) mama took them somewhere else to “hide” them and they’ll be back soon. The kittens will also be fixed and vaccinated and then available for adoption.

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Peace!

Eric’s ordination is coming up quickly. Less than a month, now. The stole is finished!

Now I’m thinking about sewing for myself. Since a lot of Eric’s family will be in town for the event, we’re going to take some family photos. I’ve asked everyone to wear a white shirt and denim or khaki bottoms to a party being hosted on Saturday evening. Ordination is on Sunday. Since my denim skirt is all but sewn, I’ve got bottoms and am thinking I might be able to make a top out of this Italian shirting I bought a while back. I’m debating if it is has too much color, but since I made the photo “rules” up, I can break them, right?

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Here’s my sketch. I’m still undecided on sleeves. and how tight this will be–i.e. if it will slip over my head or need a closure.

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I hope to knock this out this weekend so I can get started on the dress I will wear next week. Here’s the material I hope to use on the dress. The lace is from Paris! I’ve been hanging onto it to use on something special. It was 50-100 Euro a meter! My mom and I picked it out when I was there in 2003.

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Sake decided to sit on the fabric this morning. Lovely, and such smugness. I gently removed her and draped the fabric over the chair. The last thing I need is a snag caused by cat toe-nails.

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Scotch wanted his photo taken too. It is only fair, right? He is enjoying the gorgeous day and our opened door.  I’m still working on ideas for the dress. I may use the lace as an accent or as a sheer top over the dress. We’ll see. Here’s where my sketching has taken me so far. I’m not really loving anything, but know it is a start.

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In other news, I picked up the most recent edition of Stitch. It is not as good as the first edition. The dress patterns they share are okay at best and one photo/dress looks downright awful in the magazine styling. Ew!

I’m still feeling off today, but have heard the 24-hour flu is making its rounds at our school. Yippee. I don’t feel THAT bad, just off. I think my three-hour afternoon nap today is helping head in the right direction.

Peace!

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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.

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There you have it.

Peace!

Saturday!

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!

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This mama lost her two other kitties.

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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.

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Here’s a fancy birthday card.

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All the stamps and what-not scattered around.

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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!

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