Peace, Purrs, and Catching Up...

Today is BlogBlast for Peace Day and we wanted to be sure to add our purrs for peace all over the world!

We're also purring for our furiend Inigo.

We're very worried about him and he's in need of lots of purrs and pawsitive thoughts.

We also need to take care of some business because we've been tagged not once, not twice but three times and our mommy is such a slacker we haven't posted any of them. These tags consist of 4 questions that we are supposed to answer and then make up 4 more questions and tag 4 more people. We'll let Mommy answer so let's get started...

The first set of questions is from Edi from Memories for Life Scrapbooks and her adorable furbaby Harley....

1. What was your biggest accomplishment for the week? Or month if you prefer?
Well, since November just got started I'll have to say our biggest accomplishment for October was having 15 sales in my BeadedTail shop so we were able to donate to lots of charities. I hope this trend continues!

2. If you could choose one age to be the rest of your life, what age would you choose?
Hmmm. Not sure about this one. 40 seems a good age to be.

3. What is your favorite season?
Spring since tax season ends!

4. What is your favorite color and why?
Purple. Not sure why, I've always been drawn to it.

Now from Pam at Magdalene Jewels and Dexter and Zoey:

1. Do you like to travel? If so, where do you most like to go or what was your most memorable trip? If you don't like travel, why not?
I love to travel although don't do it very often since we don't want to leave the furbabies. Hawaii is probably my favorite destination. We really enjoyed Maine too. Oh and Vancouver Island in Canada. I also go to Disneyland every year. I just love to travel anywhere!

2. What is one of your most favorite books you've ever read?
I enjoy reading and have to read something every day so have many favorites depending on my mood. I just can't read any book which something sad or bad happens to animals.

3. What is a favorite family food you like to make?
My husband does the cooking since it stresses me out but I do enjoy baking so like to make cookies especially at Christmas time, lemon bars and dog biscuits.

4. What do you collect?
After we moved I vowed to never have knick knacks around but I still occasionally collect angels and cat figurines.

And last but certainly not least, the questions from Duni from Lovely Purses and her handsome boy Sammy...

1. Early bird or night owl?
Night owl living in an early bird world including kitties who wake at 4am which means I am seriously lacking in sleep!

2. If you could be an animal, what would it be and why?
A cat of course! How wonderful it would be to nap all day, enjoy sunpuddles, get lots of snorgles, kisses, and treats and not have to pretend to like someone they don't!

3. What is your least favourite daily chore?
Hmmm. Another stumper. I'd have to say work!

4. Which crafty person do you greatly admire and why?
Tough question because there's several for various reasons. I admire Edi from Memories for Life Scrapbooks because she is so creative. Duni from Lovely Purses and Erika from NicoDesigns because they can sew anything and their work is fabulous - I can't sew anything. Plus they both are going after their dreams in their businesses. And Ann from Ann's Snap, Edit and Scrap because she is not afraid to always learn and try new crafty things.

Okay so now for 4 new questions and 4 people tagged:

1. If you had the power to fix anything that's wrong with this world, what would it be.
2. What's your favorite indulgence?
3. Describe your perfect day.
4. If you could fly off tomorrow to any destination for a week, where would you go and why?

And for the tagees, don't worry, I won't tag anyone who doesn't want to be tagged so I'll let anyone and everyone who wants to play along to do so. Hope someone does!

Phew! All caught up now! Have a great Thursday!

SUNday Happiness!

My sisfur Isabella and I were recently awarded the Happy Cat award from our furiend Sammy from Germany!

Sammy's mom Duni makes very lovely bags which our mommy always likes to see but our favorite posts are the ones with handsome Sammy! Isn't he just the cutest?

Anyway, along with this award we're supposed to list 5 things that make us happy so here goes...

1) SUN! We love laying in the sun and after weeks of gray days, we finally have a true SUNday today!

2) Treats. Nuf said.

3) Open windows so we can smell the fresh air and watch birdies!

4) All our blog furiends from all over the world!

5) Toys! Especially Casbah Kitten toys!

We're supposed to pass this on to 5 of our furiends but we aren't sure who has or hasn't received it. To avoid duplicating the award, plus we think all our furiends are Happy Cats, we'll just pass it to everyone who hasn't received it yet. We'll even let our dog furiends be honorary cats if they want this award!

We hope you have a Happy SUNday!

PeeS: We're also happy to announce that Mommy is offering Free Shipping in her BeadedTail Etsy shop from today through next Saturday. All shipping charges will be refunded back to your PayPal account. Be sure to check it out!

Whew! What A Week!

Since I was in Las Vegas all week, I'm really behind on acknowledging awards and a tag we received so I'll catch up today. First of all, I'd like to thank Meghann from Little Studio Photography and Jewellery for featuring me on her blog Friday. If you'd like to learn a little more about me - please visit her Fabulous Friday Features.

Meghann also tagged me to show the 10th picture in my 10th folder. The 10th folder is called "House" which means it's house stuff. And wouldn't you know it, the 10th photo is this:

That was the photo sent to me by my husband of the house he bought here in Oregon while I was in Colorado trying to sell our house there. Since I couldn't be out here while he looked for a house, I had to see them by photos. Imagine my "joy" in seeing that kitchen! Notice the 1978 appliances - the dish rack they had on the counter should have been a big clue that the dishwasher would flood the floor when we used it, which it did, so it was replaced soon after we moved in. Followed by a new stove when we got down to one working burner. The lovely fruit wallpaper and white knobs were removed rather quickly too.

We finally remodeled the kitchen last summer so here's the updated version.

During the process Angel snoopervised to make sure everything was put together correctly! (The cabinets look lighter in this photo because it's natural cherry wood so darkens with sunlight)And Sadie kept an eye on me while I took photos of the finished work. Isabella was more concerned with watching birdies out the window!

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Now to acknowledge some wonderful folks who passed awards to us this week. Stacy Hurt gave us the Kreativ Blogger award!

Stacy is very creative, talented and an animal lover so this is an honor to receive this award from her! Thank you so much Stacy!

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Yours Truli gave us the Honest Scrap award. I'm really glad she did because it gave me the opportunity to get to know her blog and it's wonderful! Thank you very much!

Along with this award we're supposed to list 10 facts about us. I'm not good at figuring out what to list that is something I haven't listed in the past so I'll have to pass on this.

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Laura from The Cat in the Clover gave us the Premio Meme Award. She makes cute kitty pillows and accessories and also has a wonderful blog so check her out too!

We're supposed to list 7 facts with this award but again, I have a hard time thinking of some so will have to pass but thanks anyway!

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Kerrilee from Lazy Bear Blogs awarded us the Best Blog Award! We appreciate it!

She has a great blog and I've enjoyed getting to know her and I bet you would too! Be sure to pay her a visit!

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The lovely Reese from A Kitty Named Reese gave us this award that she says is Spanish for "your blog doesn't stink"!

Our daddy speaks Spanish and doesn't think it's Spanish so we have no idea what it says but it's a pretty award anyway! Thank you so much Miss Reese!

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Duni from Lovely Purses gave us the Best Blog Award

and also the Humane Award!

The Humane Award is in order to honor certain bloggers that I feel are kindhearted individuals. They regularly take part in my blog and always leave the sweetest comments. If it wasn’t for them, my site would just be an ordinary blog. Their blogs are also amazing and are tastefully done on a daily basis. I thank them and look forward to our growing friendships through the blog world.

I will pass this to the following bloggers in no particular order:

Okay, there are no names listed here because I started writing down everyone's names! So that means I'm passing it on to all my commenters! There's no way to single anyone out since I want you all to have it!

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Phew! That'll teach me to go out of town and get so far behind! We received one other award but it'll be posted later this week. After all that, we're going to relax the rest of the weekend and we hope you do too! Have a great Sunday!

Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella wants to remind everyone to take a little time during this busy part of year to relax, lounge around and enjoy the holiday season!

We'd also like to thank the following for giving us such wonderful awards!

Duni from Lovely Purses gave us this Lovely Blog Award

3 Scrapbooking Ladies gave us this Kreativ Blogger Award

As I've stated in the past, I am truly grateful for all awards received. It's an honor to have such great visitors to my blog let alone receive awards. Thank you both so much and in the spirit of the season, and the fact that I can't choose from the many blogs deserving of these awards, consider them passed on to you!