Yellow Submarine

On Saturday my husband turned 30, having no money after our kitty's double surgery I painted something for him, I am hoping he liked it ;)
The rock is my first painted rock of 2009, I still have many many catbeds to make but for now, I am taking a break to paint a thank you present for a friend, a frog-rock. I will show the photos later.

Here is my present to my hubby love of my life.




The finished present:

Did you say a little prayer for Rocky?

If you did, thank you, that might have saved our big boy, we brought him back from the Vet on Saturday night, I gave PJ the kitty that lives at the vet one of my CatBeds as a thank you present. He didn't do as much as the Vet did, but every time that I had to go he was my comfort.

Rocky came home in one piece, he was so happy to be home though, that he would not stop rubbing him self against us and playing like the little kitty that he is, that was on Saturday. By Sunday night, we notice stuff coming out from in between his stitches, in a panic we took him to our local Emergency Clinic. By the time we got there so much was coming out of him that I thought we were going to loose him for sure. After a second surgery to re open him up and to clean what had come out and to patch him back up, he was able to come home on that very same night. Now we are keeping him locked up in our bathroom away from high counters and the activity of the house... He is a very lucky boy to be alive, and so are we, since on the night that we had to drive him to the Vet there was a weather warning and cops were telling people to get off the road, we were slidding on our big red van all over the road, it took us so long to get to the Vet that it gave Rocky time to do more damage to him self.. it was quiet the ordeal.

Well he is home today all better, in pain ( I can tell ) but happy once again to be home with his family. He better last a couple of decades as my older cat PooToo ( 17 years old ) has ;)

My big boy has been at the VET since Tuesday Feb24

Our newest family member is at the Vet, he started throwing up Monday night and by Tuesday he hadn't stopped and I was getting very concerned, luckily our vet called to ask how he was doing, since last Friday we took him in to be neutered, I mentioned that he was throwing up and asked if it was related to the neutering, and they didn't think so.. so we rushed him in that night, since then he's had 3 X-Rays, to see if he swallowed anything that he shouldn't have, nothing has come back conclusive... then they gave him something to make his bowels move to see if he would pass it and nothing worked... Yesterday they decided that surgery was best.

Surgery was one of the biggest disappointments, nothing was found, they still don't know what is wrong with him, nothing was found inside of his stomach, so they are back at square one. Today the doctor had some good news he finally has stopped throwing up, but he is still on meds, they will take him off that to see if he can keep food down on his own, if all goes well, we will be able to bring him home tomorrow afternoon. We miss him so much, and I fear that he must think that he has been abandoned once more, after all, we took him off the streets literary, and tried to find his owners and then a home, eventually we got too attached to him and decided to keep him for good, and I mean for good , once a cat is with us he or she is family, our oldest is 17 years old and has been with me since she was 4 weeks old.

Here are some photos of my boy, Cat Rock, aka Rocky

The finished Cat Beds have been delivered to the Shelter

hey every one, I said that I would make some catbeds for our local SPCA, but was approached by another cat shelter, so I made 5 beds for this shelter:
http://www.pickofthelitter.ca/ which still have to be delivered and I will still make at least 5 more for the SPCA.
I thought i would put the idea out there hoping some one else who can crotchet or knit will copy me.
Thanks and thank you to all of you out there helping strays this winter








There are tons of free patterns online on how to make them, they seem simple enough
update: I hope I am allowed to show these three links to the free patterns online

http://www.moonarts.com/blog/free_patterns/pages/kitty-cozy-print.htm

http://www.crochetkitten.com/cuddlesforkitties.html

http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30923&highlight=kitty

These two guys are our latest family memebers, the first one CatRock aka Rocky, just got neutered, the vet believes he is about a year to a year and a half old.. He was a stray that I was feeding for about a month, then just before one of our very fist snow storms, he ran through the open basement window into the house and well.. he's been home ever since ;)



The smaller orange kitty Garfield, is our other new kitty, I adopted him from a local site ( kijiji ) he was being given away for almost 3 months and no one was taking him, he is deaf and has a few... special needs. But he is the funniest, most loving cat ever, I still dont' know why his previous owner didn't want him. Well he is home for good, as proof, our other two cats, are 17 and 9 years old and they have always been with us, through every move, you just don't leave family behind when you move ;)

Finished Hat for my Danielita

Here is my first Crochet made hat ;) for my little munchkin, which she loved ;) she wore it pretty much all day long, it's still not totally finished, I want to add a white crochet rose to it, which I am looking for instructions of how to make. Any hoo.. I am pretty proud of my self for making something else than scarves. ;)













Little Crochet Flowers that I am making for my kids' friends

Finished Cat Beds for Shelters

I have tried to make a few cat beds or mats based on the links that I posted earlier, and so far, I like them all.. except for the first ones that are very very little.. should have used a bigger hook and bigger yarn... learn as you go.. These are my first Crochet projects after all. I might keep the brown which my 17 year old kitty really likes, but the other three are for this cat shelter:

Pick of the Litter

Valentine Creations 2009

My kids and I decided to sit down and do some funky Valentine's for their friends, just simple paper hearts and a pipe cleaner sandwiched in between made a nice Valentine flower ;) petals are still pending to be added








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Please notice the orange beauty in the background, she has always been by my side while I do what ever craft I am into at the time. We have been together for 17 years. I love my PooToo ;)



After the kids were in bed I made some extra Heart and Star paper decorations for our playroom, the next morning they had a fun scavenger hunt trying to find all the hearts on the wall ;)








Our new adopted boy, CatRock aka Rocky, he came through one of our basement windows starved and begging for affection, now he is plump healthy and very very spoiled

Latest Scarves for my kid's friends

I am still trying to keep all of my kids friend's neck warm ;) by knitting them pretty scarves. Here are the latest. My daughter is modelling one of them.

I found some great places for the knitters and crochet fans out there

HI, I have taken a project on, I am very very serious about making these kitty beds... for my local SPCA, I posted an add on my local kijiji site about it and got an amazing amount of positive responses.. so now my next mission is to organize a meeting with fellow cat lovers to work on these beds.. Enough said here are the links to these beautiful cat beds.

I got the idea from this lady here: Crochet Kitte's free kitty bed pattern

You can find other free patterns here:
Free Patter from Midnight Knitter

and here:Crochetville Forum


I put this idea out there too... maybe you reading this might do the same for your local SPCA? specially during this horrible cold winter.