Minnie

Minnie is always finding something to crawl into. She looks so darn cute laying in Mickey's shopping bag.

I know she thinks she is so cute doing it too, just the sweet look she gives me when I give her the attention.

Our kitties and Fiona seem to be finding away to co exist.  Fiona is learning she isn't allowed on our bed or my chair with me and only the kitties can so they still feel they have their space.  

Fiona has been a good dog to have here and she gets me to walk that 1.5 miles a day!

Gotta love the kitties...and the dog too!

It's been a long time since I have blogged about my kitties and I am going to try to keep up with this blog, not as many post as Visiting On My Front Porch but I would like to blog once a week at least since I have such fun kitty stories to share.

My kitties are so happy that the windows are open once again.
We were able to open them early this year but then the pollen came out so they  had to be closed and a few of those days we had the air on (yeck) .

Then it got cold here in the south, well cold for the south.  So the windows were shut up again!  I see warmer temps in the forecast which means happy kitties!  

I have several windows open but for some reason a couple of them have to fight over one!  children!

Two New Cats!

Autumn

      When mom passed away she left behind four pets, one dog and three cats.

We were able to find a home for the dog and the oldest cat.

The initial plan for the other two was I would take Autumnand my sister would take Blackie but I struggled with this decision because Autumn and Blackie are siblings from the same litter and have been together almost 6 years.

One tearful morning I called Mr. Man and asked it I could take Blackie home too.  That would be over our cat limit for sure but he agreed they shouldn't be separated.

The first week went well considering Blackie and Autumn hid the entire week.

After that they started to come out more and Blackie wasn't very nice at all to my little Piper.  He really got at her one day so much I could no longer trust him with her so I pretty much carried Piper with me around the house.

She wouldn't stick up for herself like the other cats would since Blackie tried to pick on the others but didn't work.

I had to find a home for Blackie.  I was thinking at first Autumn had to be a part of the package deal but the more I saw she was accumulating to her new home very well I feel she didn't need her brother (yes Blackie is the only male cat and that maybe the issue) 

After a couple of week of this and no takers I had come to the hard decision of having to give him up to and animal rescue which I was not happy with.

Then our daughter Erica stepped up and said they really want a cat and she didn't want us to get rid of him like that and she would take him.

Blackie went to his new home on Sunday and as of last night Erica and Mickey said he seems to like where he is and loves for them to pet him because he is purring very loudly.

I hope this works out for everyone.  Autumn seems to be doing well she is trying to fit into her brothers shoes and is bulling a little but I think that will go away over time she just isn't that way.

A the life of a cat!

Patches and Autumn

Blackie

Pretty!

 Sorry I haven't kept up with my fun kitty blog, I have so much to tell!

But today I am going to do a quickie post on brushing my kitties.  Some of them love it and some of them avoid me when they see the brush.

Minnie can go both ways but this morning I pulled out the brush and she was first in line.  I'm not sure if she likes the brushing, the attention or the fact I say pretty, pretty with every stroke of the brush.

Poor Jewel she loves to be brushed but today no matter how long I brushed her hair it still looked awful. 

She hasn't been doing all that well for a long time and this past week I see a downward change in her.  She has a hard time walking but usually she can make it up the stairs at night to our room for her night night treats but this past week she doesn't even try.  Maybe that is why her hair isn't pretty this brushing.

The other cats...not to be found!  I will get them the next round!

Where are momma's coupons?

I am a quilter but also a scrapbooker.  When I am quilting I say to myself...I love quilting the best, I love to quilt. 

When I am scrapbooking I say to myself I love scrapbooking it is my favorite!

I shop/experience Archivers (a scrapbooking store) about once a month.  They are based outta Minnesota and since I am a native of MN I shopped there quite often.  Then they came to GA!

I am signed up on line to get shop coupons which are like gold since Archivers really don't have specials or sales.

So I carefully cut them out and set them aside because I know I will "need" to go there.  BUT just recently I did that and they were GONE!

There are only three stealer's in my home, their names are Minnie, Patches and Piper.  Which ones stole my coupons I carefully printed out and cut out on the lines (cuz I wouldn't want to look bad) and set aside?

There they are, Miss I never do anything wrong, Miss Innocent daddy's girl and I'm the baby. (pic above) (Piper is hard to see since she is black but look off to the right in the back, she's there) 

OH I found my coupons scattered on the floor.  I did not put them there.  But as you can see they are not going to own up to what they did!

My cats are like my children, get into things and don't admit to it.  The only exception is my girls grew up but my little furry girls will always try to get away with all they can.............................

But I will always love them.

New Projects

 Now that the kitchen walls are done I have moved onto another room that also has wallpaper.  The main floor bathroom.  Thankfully this room is very small.

 And I have a little helper who keeps reminding me that she is helping mimi. 
Mr. Man is afraid that if I keep having her help me remove wallpaper she may go into someones home that has wallpaper and start removing it.

 The wallpaper was easy to remove and the border came off in one complete piece.  Now the question once again is color.  Mickey said it should be purple, a girl after my own heart.

 My other project I have started is in these two photos, these are quilts done in a quilt shop I now am in the process of the red work. 

Let me go back to last summer.  The new issue of Quilt Sampler Shop Hop magazine came out and I saw this beautiful quilt shop with a beautiful quilt and also saw this was at a quilt shop in Iowa which I was going to be traveling through in September and I would be in that general area! 

It was meant to be!  Now the quilt shop owners in the Midwest are very picky about taking pictures in the quilt shop but I did get permission to take these only if I was buying the pattern and the kit which I did, so these are those pictures.

The same quilt that was in the magazine.  I love this quilt!
So once I got home and admired the way they packaged the kit I lovingly put it on a shelf.

That was almost a year ago.  Until last Friday the women who come in once a month to the shop to sit and stitch was picking out background fabric to do this exact quilt.  I told her I also had that pattern but I had bought the kit that the shop had put together.  She was very interested in the fabrics that were in my kit and asked me to help her pick out her background fabric.

Well it got me thinking about my little purchase from last year and went home and pulled it out and yep I started it.  BUT not until I first finished the redwork I was working on.  Funny how you can get something done quickly when you see something else you want to do.

I am so excited to complete this quilt for Christmas.  I would like to have it on our bed which means I will need to pay someone to quilt it since piecing it and hand quilting it would put me way past Christmas.

I am still working on my fall quilt, hand quilting it and it is coming along nicely.  I figure if I can quilt one square a night then the border I should have it done by the end of August.  We will see.  Great goal though.

Now I got to get cleaning the house so I can work on my projects!

What color is your bathroom?

Testing, testing

Hello!  Well I seem to still have space to upload pictures on this site for a while at least.  I would hate to redirect my traffic  back to The Cats In but I may have to blog from here, which I like this blog title the best anyway.

Todays photo is of a picture I found at an antique store and thought how perfect next to my funky cat dishes.  Mr. Man had to cut down the bottom so it could fit but it didn't ruin the picture I don't think. 

I will have to do a photo tour of my funky cats again I did it once before but deleted when I made the decision not to continue with The Cat's In.

In the meanwhile I will be using this blog at least until I decide what to do.  I hope you don't mind.

Thanks for stopping by and please leave comments I would love to hear from you!

Oh No Minnie

Look what Minnie did so she could lay in the bottom shelf!

Piper did that not long ago to another shelving unit, pushed everything off of it to lay on it.

Those kitties!

Rise and Shine!

I wanted to share with my blog land friends how I wake up many mornings.

I just don't want to get out of bed when my girls are gathered around my legs.   

Piper's Basket?

Sooooo today I stopped by the shop to drop off a sample for our Christmas in July event which you can read about that here and here and after I left the shop I went to one of my favorite antique shops and found this great basket.

Once home again and unloading my new treasures Miss Piper decided she liked the basket!  She's so cute!  Now it will be hard for me to use it because she likes to lay in it.  Maybe...