Finally finished...

So ever since I saw the "Starbucks cup" on Connie's blog, I've been wanting to do one. Unfortunately, I could never find the requisite clear cup. Matt put out a bounty on one and a co-worker came through last week. Matt brought it home, but I never found time on my "vacation" (aka burning use-it-or-lose-it time) since I was too busy doing spring cleaning, shopping with the family, moving yard edging stones, having a girls' day, etc. I got a lot of pages done but never seemed to have time to do the cup. Basically, I need a vacation to recover from my vacation. But tonight after making the meal plan for the next two weeks, doing the grocery shopping, making faux egg foo young for dinner, finally finishing what seemed like an enormous amount of laundry and chasing a few furballs, I finally found the time to cut it out. It was surprisingly easier than I thought it would be much thanks to Connie's great pattern.

On another subject, I wanted to show you the progress that the catnip has made as a result of Matt's ingenious kitty proofing. The catnip has grown up outside of the cage and is thriving.

Catnip Calamity

So I finally finished a big project I've been working on. I actually thought about not finishing it, but I knew that it would "haunt" me if I didn't. So now it's done and I can move on. But of course I have a headache tonight and don't feel all that good. It's this stupid Spring weather. Could it just stay sunny or stay rainy? Why does it have to keep fluctuating back and forth, driving my sinuses crazy?

So tonight I just cleaned up my craft room. I don't know about all of you out there but I am a messy crafter. I pretty much have to clean my room after every project. Now honestly, it doesn't take that long. I cleaned it up during the commercials of one episode of Glee (yes I am a Gleek), so that should tell you, it's a pretty simple task. Now I am ready to embark on some new projects and I have a few in mind, but they will have to wait for another day.

Over the weekend, we planted all the Spring flowers just in time for last night's frost. Again, stupid Spring weather, pick a temperature already! I cleaned off all the dropped potting soil, dirt, leaves and other stuff that builds up over the winter and was pretty happy with how it looked. So, of course, the furballs had to go investigate or snoopervise as I like to call it. So tonight, I'm checking my e-mail and posting about how happy I am to have won the gift certificate to Paper Zone (whoo hoo! still celebrating that one), when I hear this crash! I leave the craft room and the first thing I notice is that Smoke is cowering in a corner and won't look at me. So at least I know who the naughty kitty was (Notice the mark on his nose? That's not a mar on the photo, it's from "fighting" with Cha-Ching the other day). Now I just have to find out what he did. Fortunately, that didn't take long because I found this mess just outside the back door: Of course Smoke now is willing to come investigate the damage he caused and then Zoey has to come check it out too:

So that's when Matt tells me what happened. Matt was out playing with the fish in the pond when Smoke jumps from the railing onto the pot of catnip that has some how miraculously survived five cats and the winter. Of course, Smoke (the klutz) overestimates the security of the pot sitting on its stand or, perhaps under-estimates his considerable size and weight, and the whole thing comes crashing down. Fortunately I had another pot I decorated a while ago just ready for this such occurrence. To try to give the catnip a fair chance, Matt did some kitty-proofing. Given the fact that Matt's managed to kitty-proof the backyard to somehow keep five furballs within the confines of our fenced backyard, I'm betting on the catnip making it.

Whooohoooo

We are finally back in business. We just got the computer back from HP and thankfully the screen is readable again. Things are pretty much still the same here but the weather has been crazy. Three weeks ago we had snow and then last weekend we had 100 degree weather. Way weird. Anyhow, here's new pictures of me in my favorite place in the yard - the catnip pot! (Mommy: Poor catnip - I'm not sure it's going to make it)