Steampunk Charms are done

I finished my steampunk charms last night. I might still add a little bit more to each of them but the over all design is complete. That is a huge weight off my shoulders. Ya'll will have to wait until after the swap is complete to see all of the designs. My cats kept trying to help. Delilah sat and watched for a long time but as soon as she started messing with the charms she was removed from the desk top.
Chloe came to help while I was cleaning everything up so I took a few cute pictures of her.
I almost got a picture of her yawning but my camera wouldn't focus on her until right after the yawn. But little pink kitty tongues are cute too.. lol

Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to finish organizing my craft room.

Yard Sale Finds

This weekend my friend Tonya and I hit a few of the local yard sales and an estate sale. The estate sale was crazy that lady must have bought every holiday decoration she could find and then left them in the package. There were dozens of boxes of holiday decor. Tonya bought an entire box full of pots and pans for $10. There was a really nice set Betty Crocker cookware and another full set. Plus muffin pans and a pasta pot with strainer lid.
I was looking for smaller stuff... like jewelry... I only spent $2 at the estate sale and this is what I brought home.
7 new watch bands. (I'm not sure why I bought them) all but one is 10kt gold.

and a box of random jewelry. The bracelet is 24kt gold.

Found another sale across town and bought these three red hat society bracelets for .20 cents each.

We went to one sale out in the country that smelled horrible. The cow poop fertilizer on the lawn made my eyes water. I picked up a new in package green wire picnic set for $2 but I forgot to take a picture.
I found a bunch of jewelry for $1 each at the smelly sale. The necklace on the bottom right hand side still has a price tag for $18. Notice the little kitty paws at the top left hand corner of the picture, she was being so helpful.


Delilah loved her bling. Chloe seems to be jealous.

Chloe decided that they weren't her style.

Sam wasn't interested in any of the yard sale finds.

Luna & Delilah

I just thought I would share the cute photo I took last night.

Delilah update

Delilah seems to be doing a lot better. This morning she and Luna were play fighting. I tried to get pictures but they wouldn’t slow down enough to take any. Delilah also seemed to take great delight in attacking all the laundry I was trying to fold last night.
She loves having her belly rubbed and rolls over any time I pet her.
Her belly looks rough in this picture but it doesn't seem to bother her at all.

Thanks for all the well wishes for my kitty.

Kitty update

Delilah stopped bleeding externally last night. I'm concerned about her bleeding internally though. Her gums seemed a little pale this morning. I'm going to keep an eye on her and if they don't start to turn pink again I guess I'll be taking her back to the vet for another blood transfusion. She and her sister have been cuddling a lot. Luna wants to play but Delilah doesn't.

I kept them in the bedroom with us last night. Every time I heard them moving around I switched on the light to check on them. I'm so glad I got the fixed when I did or we wouldn't have know about the rat poison and we would have lost her.

Delilah (long post)

I picked up my cats at 8am this morning. There was paperwork and antibiotics for Delilah. She was meowing like crazy and Luna was just chilled out. I talked to them both the whole way home and put my fingers in the cage to pet them. As soon as we got home and I got them in the bedroom I opened the cages. Delilah came out instantly, Luna was a little hesitant. I sat down in the floor with them and Delilah started climbing and rubbing all over me and being extra affectionate (not normally like her she is usually aloof) When she climbed off my lap I noticed a blood stain on my pant leg. I picked her up and her belly was covered in fresh blood. I checked her gums and they were almost white. I called the spay and neuter clinic that did the surgery and they told me to get her to the vet asap. So I got her cleaned up and called the vets office.. they weren't open yet. I gave them some food and water and they both ate. I set up an appointment and got a towel for the trip back to cedartown. I let her out of the cage in the car so she wouldn't act so crazy. I laid a towel across my lap and she just sat there the whole ride looking out the window. The vet read the paper work and once he saw her he said one of the sutures had come loose. He wanted to run a couple blood test and see how her blood was clotting. While we waited on the blood work she climbed all over me like a jungle gym.



She tested negative for FeLV and her blood count looked ok a little on the low side. Her blood was extremely slow to clot on the slide he took and the clot was extremely weak. They suspect she ingested Rat Poison in the past couple of days. They gave her a vitamin K shot to counter act the poison and I have to give her a vitamin k capsule every day for the next 3 weeks to get it all out of her system. They also put one suture in her belly where the bleeding was occurring but by the time I got home again she started bleeding from another spot higher up. Her gums are pinker than they were this morning but not as pink as her sisters. I guess its still touch and go.

Cats

Yesterday morning I took my two outside cats to have them spayed. Well about 6 pm last night I get a call that Delilah wasn't doing good. They had to open her back up due to internal bleeding and her blood was brown. They said they were giving her a blood transfusion already when they called me. They called me back again at 8pm to tell me that her color was coming back and that she looked better but there was a possibility that her body could reject the donor blood. Everyone please keep Delilah in your thoughts. I go to pick them up at 8 this morning. I'm hoping she will be alright.

Craft Room Mess

I wish I had a lovely craft room to show off but this is what I have to work with. I took over the dinning room and made it my craft room. Sorry it's so messy. My cat Sam wanted to be in the picture, she likes me to watch her eat. The cats use the edge of my craft desk as a nail file. I have to feed them on the desk to keep the dog from eating their food.
We got the craft hutch for free. It wasn't very stable so I shored it up with a couple of 2x4.



I store all my miniature accessories in this set of hardware drawers.

I think I'll have to spend the weekend reorganizing in here. Wish I could work on it now but I've got to get some work done.

SNOW!!!!

Wow I've got 47 followers. Thanks everyone for your support.

It snowed here this weekend. I know everyone else on here has seen plenty of snow this year but we haven't had a snow like this since the 1993 blizzard. I felt like a little kid again. I built a small snowman and had a snowball fight it was wonderful. It started snowing Friday around noon and didn't stop until 9pm. We got about 4-5 inches at our house. By the end of Saturday almost all the snow was gone.


I was determined to attend the Atlanta Miniature Show in Norcross so I braved the snow and headed out at 10:30am Saturday morning. It was a beautiful drive seeing all the snow in the trees. The roads were pretty clear. I met an online friend while I was at the show. After the show I went to my favorite miniature store.. Miniature Designs. Here's the minis I picked up at the show and store.


On my way home from the show I stopped by Petsmart to get some crickets for my geckos and they were having a 75% off sale on dog coats and jackets. I would never have paid the full price of $25.99 for a dog hoodie but I decided to get one since it was only $6.50. Toby loves his new hoodie.

Pets

I completely forgot about posting anything yesterday. I thought I would introduce all my pets since all miniaturist seem to be animal lovers too.
This is my dog Toby. He was a stray that wondered up 4 years ago. He had apparently been abused.


These are our two inside cats. They were the last two free kittens being given away so I took them both in July of 2008.
Samantha aka Sam

Chloe


These are our two outside kittens. A local feral cat had taken up refuge under our house in October. She had apparently torn a hole in the ductwork and these two kitten climbed up our living room vent at four weeks old. I've gotten extremely attached to them.
Delilah

Luna


These are my two Leopard Geckos from Craigslist.
Hunkie & Dorie


And this is my 5 year old Ball python given to me by a friend.
Azimuth