Chaos came to us in the fall of 1993, as we moved into our first home.
Chaos has weathered many a storm during his life, and now, 18 years later, has passed on to the great kitty cat-stand in the sky… In the end, he had been knocked down by renal failure and diabetes. His last day was on Monday.
Here are some pictures to remember his better times, most taken when digital cameras were brand new.
These pictures are how I prefer to remember him.
Goodbye, my little “cinderblock of love”….
Awesome photos, from an 11 year old……
The girlie went to run a 5K in town and we ended up bringing home a new little guy….
This is Gus.
He’s been here since Monday morning, as is getting along nicely with the other felines in the house:
He is about 7 weeks old, and he is coming along nicely. The vet gave him a clean bill of health.
Expect more pictures of him soon….
Here are the pic’s that Glitter Glue Princess and I selected for the holiday cards – they are currently in queue at moo.com.
This was the photo selected for the backs of the cards – more what he looks like when totally crazed. This was the kiddo’s favorite photo, but not very appropriate for a holiday card, in my mind, except maybe halloween or day of the dead.
One more piece finished – the underskirt for my costume is done. It is a 3/4 circle skirt – I simply didn’t have enough of this fabric to do a full circle, and was pushing it as it was.
Note the planetary fabric in the background. That is the overskirt.
I recognize that they totally don’t match – no worries as the underskirt matches the pirate corset.
Hopefully, it will look like the following in the dark when I use my LED’s and neon:
The neon will go on the outside, and I’m going to sew the LED’s to tulle beneath the planets. We all agreed that they were a little too bright to endure as an external lighting – they needed something to dull down the shock of them. Now the skirt becomes a projector of sorts!
We are going to an extraterrestrial pirate ball, after all!
Now the question I have to figure out is if the tulle should be attached to the planets, or if I should keep them separate…
…Did I mention that the neon lines can flash? I may be responsible for sending someone into seizures…hehehe. Or, maybe I’ll be nice and just leave them on a normal setting.
Boy, I’m going to need a place to hide all the spare batteries!
And, a parting photo of my studio guest, who prefers to sleep while I sew – Mickey:
Off to do more geometry for this skirt – nothing like trying to remember how to measure ellipses and circles!
Little Mickey was ill all weekend. He was worse than a baby, as he just laid around all weekend, and wanted us to hold him. He wouldn’t eat, wouldn’t drink – I was sure he was a goner, and we had no reason for this to occur. He had the ear mite treatment at the vet, but they were really bothering him – it wouldn’t explain him not eating. Sunday, I got all bothered with it and started pumping him full of beef baby food and cat milk in a syringe. He acted a bit better, even though we only got 40 mls of liquid in him.
By Monday, he was back to his little popcorn self – bouncing around and chasing anything that thought about moving. He ate heartily – but now we can’t get him to eat dry food again.
We’ve had introductions with the other cats – Fat Boy doesn’t care if he is here or not, though Mickey doesn’t like the looks of him. Miss Dot is not happy about his presence, and has thought about stalking him down a few times, only to be cut down by us. Mickey just grumbles and growls at them all, even though they are up to 3X larger than him.
When I could, I passed on the little guy to the kiddo – she got to play momma for a bit. I made her pirate shirt, using no pattern.
On the first fitting, we found that I didn’t give her enough ease, and the armpits were too tight. No problem! I actually figured out how to take care of both of these problems with one thing – armpit gussets running to the hem!
You’d never know it was there, and adds a decent amount of ease to the shirt.
Next item is the corset/tank top number using the skull fabric peeking out above. Lots of shirring on the sides – should be fun. Aaaarrgh!
I was working late today, and received an urgent sounding voicemail from the Glitter Glue Princess, saying they were leaving to go get a kitten. Ummm, o.k….. I came home to find the house empty, but S and kiddo arrived 5 minutes later with a little friend.
This is Mickey.
He was the first on the list at Craigslist and was in desperate need of a home.
S told me the backstory after we got him situated in his separate quarters (i.e. my bathroom). The lady who they visited had found him in her apartment complex dumpster, in a trash bag. He was scrawney and a mess. She took care of him for a few weeks and nursed him back to health, but had no money to give him anything other than her dog’s food, and her family was allergic. She just wanted him to get a good home.
When she heard about our last cat, she said we could have him.
We estimate he is around 4 to 5 months old. He is going to get checked out tomorrow, following an evening in his separate quarters – we want to make sure he doesn’t have ear mites/parasites/etc before the introduction to everyone else.
Of course, the girlie is smitten with him. She originally named him Midnight. I had a cat with that name as a kid, so I had some sentimental attachment, and girlie decided he should be Mickey instead.
More pictures (don’t mind the shampoo bottles):
