Cats on Tuesday: Girls on Film

They were sleeping...

...but Isis peeped an eye open when I crawled up on the couch to get a better camera angle.

Some odd game of guess-who/poke-your-nose ensued while they got comfortable again...

...and soon fell back into a sound, snuggly sleep.



~ ~ ~ Thanks for all the well-wishes regarding Mr. O'Kitten! He came home today and we're all very happy to have him back. ~ ~ ~

(((hugs)))

* peep * peep * peep *

I made one of these tonight. I never made a three-dimensional critter before; uber-cute. (She's got rabbits, too.)

Isis: And just who do you think you are?

Oh, nevermi... zz...zzz...zzzzzz...
Then there are other kinds of peeps.


Odo, for example. Back in May 2005, he looked like this (he's the peep that doesn't match).

Now he looks like this:


And because of his unusual good looks (or, rather, his unusual looks), now he has all the girls to himself. Lucky boy!

And then there are the peeps that never grow up. In fact, I think perhaps they put the same ones out year after year. They just stick the unsold packages away in some back storeroom somewhere, and restock them on the shelves again come Eastertime.


Then, of course, there are just plain wrong peeps.


Now here's a whole pile of them: a shrine of over 5,000 peeps, "Holy Totem, Sweet Taboo" by artist David Ottogalli [the shrine link is on the left sidebar]. The close-ups are holy something, Batman!

And then there are plain old happy blue peeps...


...and yellow lovepeeps touring the world.

* hop * hop * hop *

Bunny beanie is finished. Now I totally want to make one in my own size (for myself, of course) because one simply can't have too many things with animal ears on them.

I was going to try to get Isis to model it for you, but thought better of it. (Her claws really need trimming, and I'm not quite that masochistic.)

In other news, I went trawling through my favorite antique/thrift shop the other day. It's in the upstairs of the local candle shop and has a number of different vendor stalls, so there's a lot of turnover and it's fun to stop by every month or two to see what's there.

I was actually hoping this odd thing would still be around, and still be filled with random needles and crochet hooks, and indeed it was.


If the brown paint with the neon decals doesn't sufficiently scare you, the handwritten tag says it's a "German Urinal." Huh? Um, well, okay.

I figure I can either strip off the skimpy layer of paint (it's white enamel underneath) or do the goth default thing and (duh) spray paint it black.

But the main reason I wanted it was that it had all this cool stuff in it:


Like a shoe hook. And a few unmatched knitting needles (like a size 50--but only one...I figure I can beat off criminals trying to use my urinal with that one) but also several nice sets of long double-points, and other needles that actually still had their mates.

By the way, does anyone know what that thing at the bottom of the photo is? The wooden thing that sort of looks like a long clothespin? Seems like I've seen one before but I can't place it...it looks vaguely fiber-related. Any thoughts?