What Happens In Vegas...

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas thankfully or else Mommy would be bringing home a lot of kitties!  She and Daddy have been in Vegas the past few days visiting our Grandma but all three of them also visited the kitties of the Katnip Lounge and their mommy and daddy too!  They saw streaks of Scouty and CC and met all the others except The Baby.  KonaKitty hung out on the catio walkway.  She's super soft and gorgeous...

Mommy said that May Ling is beautiful in photos but in purrson she's even more so if that's possible.  She didn't get a very good picture of her because she petted her so much she forgot about photos...

Sweet Pea is beautiful too but Mommy didn't pet her.  Daddy did though!

Daddy was scritching Miss Salem too...

Who could resist a handsome Mancat like Sylvester?

Or Maui?

Now you see why we're glad that what happens in Vegas stays there?  Those Lounge kitties are hard to resist!  Their mommy and daddy are incredible too so Mommy, Daddy and Grandma enjoyed their visit very much!  

Mommy and Daddy are coming home today so depending on how long we make them cater to us, we may have to take tomorrow off.  We'll be back soon though!

Enjoy your day!

Angel and Isabella

2,000 Posts and a Commenthon on Tortie Tuesday!

It's Tortie Tuesday and it's also our 2,000th post!  That's certainly cause for celebration!  We've come a long way from when Mommy started this blog back on January 5, 2008 to talk about her BeadTail shop.  Yeah, that snoozefest got zero to two comments so she didn't do much with the blog until April when she she posted this story and photo about my little sisfur Angel and got a whooping 5 comments...

She continued to post about her shop and even some travel related posts about our area but she eventually figured out we were much better at doing posts than she is so we took over along with our angel sisfur Sadie.  Sadie even helped by modeling her jewelry like this purple necklace...

Of course I'm the supermodel of the family so I modeled lots of things like this pouch...

And this ornament...

But, even supermodels get bored...

We are happy yet amazed that we still have things to say although some days are harder than others.  We are very thankful to have such wonderful friends that visit from all over the world too!  To show our appreciation we're going to have a commenthon with $1 for every comment through midnight PDT tonight being donated to Senior Dog Rescue in our sisfur Sadie's honor.  

Thanks to everybody who visits and keeps us going!  We are more grateful than we can say!  We hope we give you a smile and we hope you spread those smiles around!  

Happy Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella

Inspiration

Last week I remembered that we hadn't done this month's BBArtisans challenge from Duni at Duni's Studio.  The challenge is to "surprise yourself by creating something with a color you rarely use".   I picked out colors that we very rarely use in beady goodies...

Of course I soopervised everything...

My due diligence was rewarded...

Hey, did I say you could stop the scritches Mommy?

We'll see about that...

Scritch away!

Anyway, we eventually came up with these earrings and got them listed in our BeadedTail shop...

My favorite show was on the Birdie Network by that time but they did go through the Tortie inspection process...

Good thing I remembered the challenge huh?  What would Mommy do without us?

Do you have any suggestions for color(s) for our beady goodies?

Hope you have an inspiring day!

Angel

The Weekend is ThisClose

It's Friday which is good but our Grandpa from Kansas is coming today which is great!  We love it when Grandpa comes to visit even though Mommy is trying to get four months of housecleaning done in one day.  We keep trying to tell her that Grandpa won't notice the house at all with us here.  She ain't buying it so I'll just sit here and wait for Grandpa while she runs around like a fool...

We're going to enjoy our time with Grandpa so we're taking a few days off and will return Monday or Tuesday or... 

Hope you have a great Friday and a wonderful weekend!

Angel

No Rest for the Tortie

These days Mommy may be working less but I'm working more.  Now after we've helped her work on tax returns there's still time left to work on beady goodies.  Maybe if I ignore her she'll let me off the hook today...

Oh alright, what do you need help with Mommy?

It's my job to make sure the beads stay where they're supposed to...

I know I make it look easy but it's really an intense job...

Hey there you bead!  Get back where you belong!

If only I'd known that whapping the beads back into line would get me a time out I would've done it long ago...

Beading is a tough job but somekitty's got to do it!  What would she do without me?

Hope you get the day off today!

Isabella

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Earth Day!

We may not be allowed outside but that doesn't mean that we don't care what's going on out there.  We love sunshine, fresh air and green trees for the birdies to live in...

Even mice realize the importance of all of us taking care of the earth to keep it beautiful for everyone...

We do our part by recycling boxes, conserving energy and not wasting foods!

Do you have tips for keeping our planet beautiful?

Happy Earth Day and Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella

Weekend Wrap Up

We hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend!  Our's was pretty quiet so we did some hanging out on the cat tree...

And some snuggling too...

We also helped Mommy make several pairs of earrings for our shop which she hasn't done since February 23rd!  Can you believe she slacked off that long?  It certainly wasn't because of us since we we're always ready to play with make beady goodies!  Anyway, we're slowly getting back to normal around here although the way we remember it, normal for us involved a lot more treats!

Hope your day is treat filled!

Angel and Isabella

Happy Easter!

We're wishing everybunny a Happy Easter!

From all of us and our favorite angel bunny ever...

We hope you have a wonderful, blessed day!

Happy Easter!

Finally Friday!

It's finally the end of the week!  Mommy didn't feel like doing much but we'll get her in gear next week and make beady goodies at least.  She did go on a photo shoot at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Woodburn, OR with a friend.  There were tulips as far as the eye could see...

The noisy strangers finished most of the work on Monday so now I can take a bath in the bathtub...

Mommy even got it all cleaned up for me...

Hey Bella, you show them the new cabinet...

Alright little sis!  There was zero storage in the guest litterbox so that problem has been solved with this new cabinet...

There's two pullout drawers and the cabinet guys are bringing another shelf for even more storage.  Pretty clever huh?

The wood looks like different colors in the photos but they're both natural cherry wood so they are the same color...

So, the guest litterbox is complete except for the knobs for the cabinets, backsplash, mirror, pictures and towel rods.  In other words, it's thisclose to being complete but it's come a long way from where it began...

We're hoping for an uneventful day for relaxing since we really haven't been able to do any yet.

What are your Friday plans?

TCIF!

Angel and Isabella

What To Do...

Do you ever pull a favorite toy out of your toy box...

Then give it a good bitey...

And a bunny kick too...

Only to have it pop out of your floofy paws?

Seems to be the theme around here since we're all discombobulated as we get back into the essential CPA routine.  Mommy doesn't know if she wants to sleep or tackle the piles of stuff she's put aside for months so we're taking some time off to get it all figured out.  We'll push for the sleeping!  

We hope you grasp your favorite toys today!  

Angel

Tortie Tax Day!

It's finally the day we've all been waiting for - Tortie Tuesday!  Oh, and it's also Tax Day!  It's the day that we switch our Mommy from this type of CPA...

To this one...

Since it's my day, I will make sure she's up to speed on her purrsonal assistant duties by catering to my every whim!

Hope your CPA is up to snuff today!  

Happy Tax Day!

Isabella

Weekend Wrap Up

We hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We did!  We only had one tax return to help with this weekend - Mommy and Daddy's!  Yep, after preparing over 300 returns for work, she waits until the last minute for their's but thankfully we were still on the job.  After that we were left alone most of Saturday while they went shopping but they brought us back a crinkly bag... 

Crinkly plastic bags are banned in our town so it came from a nearby town.  We haven't got to sit on one in forever so it felt nice and cool on my floofy patooty.  Another thing that feels cool on my floofy underside is the new countertop...

A lot of you were right, I do love rolling around on it but rumor has it that today a cabinet is going to be installed on it so my space will shrink.  Hopefully I'll still have wiggle room!  One thing where there's always room is the open window where I sun my paws...

Nothing better take that away from me!

How was your weekend!

Enjoy your day!

Angel