It's not just humans that appreciate Sir David Attenborough

This is the time for another set of phonecamera snapshots. I do apologize for the artistic values, but then some things I just have to record. Sometimes the cameraphone is the most convenient way... It will be a degree taught at art school one day, I am sure of it.

Anyway. A week ago I went on a short relaxing trip to the COUNTRYSIDE. Visiting the Pojkvän's family is always great, and most times it contains:
1. Eating
2. Cuddling puddyfat that goes by the name of Ollie and every time we visit seems to have expanded further
3. Log fires
4. Drinking lots of coffee and beer
5. Much needed relaxation and chilling
6. Eating, eating, eating...
By no means I am complaining about any of it! I love every second and it's always sad to leave.

This time I have learned something new though. The slightly slobby cat that loves food, naps and strokes (and going out to the garden too - to grab and extracurricular snack in the form of a blue tit, for example) has got another passion.

Sir David Attenborough.

I have no doubts that he is amazing. As far as I am concerned he is definetely one of my heroes. If I was to pick one genre of films to watch for the rest of my life it would be documentaries, and that is mainly due to childhood spent watching cheetahs and lions, and ants, and... Many other creatures, narrated by Sir David. I did not expect felines to share this passion though (that is possiby beccause I read somewhere that cats and dogs don't see 2d images in the same way as humans do, which I am not sure is true or not and frankly I don't think I care). We were informed that Ollie absolutely LOVES David Attenborough, but remained sceptical to this revelation. Until what has been documented below took place. (All pictures in chronological order and were NOT set up - cats aren't the best of actors).

See and believe! ;)
(The suggested soundtrack is the theme tune from Jaws)

Hey, I wanna play with you...

Two things I saw today

1. wrapped up antlers ready to ship in Mailboxes ETC. They were as big as me.

2. My brown ink has spontanousely gone mouldy. I have had it for 4 or maybe even 5 years - I admit, but I used it two weeks ago and it was still fine. Thankfully I had another brown ink that was unopened, but seriously? I am still a bit shocked. You can see the beautiful blobs floating in the bottle:

from Sofia

Hello!
Couple of weeks ago I was pretty lucky to win Sofia Sobeide's giveaway! When it arrived at first I thought it was something from my friend Martyna, whose handwriting is very very similar. But then I saw that it was packet from Finland! Hooray! So it came in a miniature version of a pizza box, which upon opening revealed....

A paper bag from old comics. It was very very cute.

And inside the bag were...

A cute dog brooch and crocheted bunting! Bunting got immediately repurposed to...

...Become a Christmas Tree chain! :) It works perfectly on my sad synthetic tree :)
And then I found that one of the comic pages were actually an old Star Wars Comic. I didn't know Darth Vader could also speak Swedish! :D

December! Photo time! :)

I confess - I have been a bad egg. I did not update blog much over past 2 weeks... Reason? I was SUPERCHRISTMASBUSY! (Also got a cold on the way, your typical excuses all the way!). For that I shall make it up to everyone and publish some action shots. In that time I did 3 markets, here's some shots from Noir! the Christmas Fair:

This is the fabulous Fi of Fiona Heather with David Anderson (who took the following picture:)

 

...of me and the Fi!

Something amazing has also happened. The elusive Christmas Jumper Cat Christmas Jumper came to life!

(there is still one available and if you are in UK you can get i on time for Christmas!)

Listophilia

I have this terrible habit of making lists. They don't always work as means of motivating me, but they definitely work as means of making me happy and making me feel organized. Most of the time it's not true anyway, but I eep making them. I am doing a wee craft show thingie on Saturday and I could not resist NOT making a list of things I want to get done for it (i.e. stock), but since I have 4 3 days left till the zero hour, i thought I will at least make a rough plan of what I want done by when. And the great Aljona suggested I should make a dinosaur shaped one. Just for that little bit of extra motivation.

Michelle's Ghost

So apparentely Michelle saw a ghost one foggy morning on her way to work... Because she took a shortcut through a graveyard, which (after my scrupulous research) is not actually a shortcut. But sleeping people are easier to get past than crowds of people in a hurry/on the bus stop. And I don't know, there is just something weirdly pleasant and calm on that graveyard anyway. But was it really a ghost?

Things that happened last week which I'd rather didn't