Finally Friday

It's the last Friday in July! Tax season will be here before we know it! I think summer is going so fast because we're working so hard. As soon as we're done working on taxes, I have to snoopervise the making of beady goodies...

Somemommy pointed out that I was paying more attention to the birdies than beadies. As if. Anyway, if that's what she thinks, I'll snoopervise from a much closer vantage point...

Of course she complained that I was too close. Okay, how about I snoopervise from here?

We finally got the beady goodies made. They would've been done much quicker if she hadn't stopped to complain so much but whatever. After I did my snoopervising duties, Isabella had the easy job of modeling...

It took just a few shots to get that one. It helps that she moves at a snail's pace so her poses last an eternity. She really is a Tortie slug. 

We're hoping to relax this last weekend in July. August is a busy month for us with birthdays, an anniversary, noisy strangers on the deck, many thousands of people coming to our town to view the solar eclipse and even a visitor coming to our house the end of the month. Our sporadic posting will be even more so but we'll pop in from time to time. 

Do you have plans for the weekend? Any big events happening for you in August?

Hope you have a wonderful end to July!

Angel

Behind the Scenes

It's no secret that we're the inspiration as well as the quality inspectors behind our BeadedTail beady goodies...

But when it comes to being the model, well...

I'm not interested in that type of work at all...

Apparently someTortie isn't either...

I am interested in Birdie TV though...

That's a glimpse of what happens behind the scenes around here. It's a tough job but somekitty's got to do it!

Hope you have a relaxing Labor Day weekend!

Angel

Tortie Tuesday

You know I'm a Tortie supermodel when I can pose for a beautiful photo...

While the Jays are squawking and causing a commotion outside...

My little sisfur doesn't have such restraint but she's not a Tortie or a purrfessional supermodel like me! 

The birds, especially the Jays, have been super noisy around here lately. Are they noisy in your neck of the woods too?

Have a beautiful Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella

Remembering a Special Woofie on Sadieday

Last month our woofie friend Whisky from the Furries of Whisppy joined our sisfur Sadie at the Bridge.  Although it broke our hearts that she had to go, we know she met up with Sadie and started dishing the dirt about living with kitties because Whisky lived with a whole herd of kitties including her little Tortie sisfur Tutu!  Whisky loved her kitty furblings so we had a huge soft spot in our hearts for her and wanted to do something special for her mom.  We had Edi from Memories for Life engrave a pendant of Whisky and we made a necklace...

Of course our resident Tortie gave it the patented Tortie Taste Test...

We used pink beads because they reminded us of Whisky and her lovely mom too...

The back of the pendant has Whisky's name on it.

Uh, Angel, we can't see it...

I was just pointing it out!  Is it my fault my feets are so floofy?  Sheesh!  Sometimes supermodels just aren't appreciated...

Anyway, we're glad we were able to make this special necklace in memory of Whisky.  We know there was a guiding paw helping us with it too...

After a delay by the post office, the necklace has been delivered to Whisky's mom in Malaysia.  We hope it brings her smiles and happy memories of her sweet girl Whisky!  

We hope you have lots to smile about this Sadieday too!  Be sure to spread those smiles around because you never know who's day you'll change by that smile!

Enjoy your Sadieday and weekend!

PeeS:  If you'd like information on personalized pendant necklaces too, please check out our shop here.

Still A No-No Bracelet

As we told you last week, we got a request for a No-No bracelet and usually we only watch Mommy make those from afar, however, the request was from a kitty mom who wanted us to help AND have it documented.  We don't think this is what she meant...

As soon as I wanted to crawl on Mommy's lap to help, she put the tray on the table and said No-No.  I guess there's just something she doesn't trust about herself with all those itty bitty beads, string and needle...

This particular bracelet has 1,246 beads in it and took her about six hours to do.  Bet it'd go a lot faster if we helped! Anyway, she eventually finished and THEN she wanted help with modeling it.  Know what I said?  No-No!  She tried to get Isabella to model it but only after she informed her she could not give the bracelet the patented Tortie Taste Test.  Of course she got Tortitude...
Pffffft!

Uh, that's not scoring you any points Mommy...

So, since we didn't cooperate, here's a boring photo of only the bracelet with no kitty models in it.  Ho hum...

The bracelet is on its way to the kitty mom and we hope she loves it (even if we didn't get to help make it)!

Are there any No-No's in your house?

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Angel

Finally Friday!

Oh what a week this has been!  As you may have seen on FB, Mommy is leaving her job of 16 years to officially become the right kind of CPA (Cat's Personal Assistant) and totally devote every waking minute to us!  What's that Mommy?  You're not going to be catering to us every minute of the day?  Oh alright.  She still will be doing the other kind of CPA tax stuff for a friend but won't be working nearly as much.  Her friend's CPA firm is in Colorado so that means she'll still be telecommuting from home so we can help her.  She's much happier already with the stress of tax season off her shoulders and as long as our foods don't run out, we're happy too!  Anyway, we don't think we ever updated that the guest litterbox remodel is officially complete!  I was supposed to model it but since I still had valerian root in my system, I wiggled a bit...

Since Isabella never wiggles she'll continue the tour but you can see that the backsplash is complete (ignore the reflection in the mirror)...

It's the same border tile that's in the shower.  The little squares that are lighter colored are actually clear glass with silver at the bottom of the tile.  Hard to tell in photos we know...

Because of the silver glass tiles (and because of cost savings due to expected leaving of job), the fixtures are all chrome...

It's kinda freaky seeing our reflections though!

Of course we have kitty art on the walls...

I think that's everything.  Did I forget anything Angel?

Yeah, the faucet makes the perfect kitty fountain!

That's the grand tour of the new guest litterbox and one good thing about Mommy's job situation is no more noisy strangers are expected any time soon! 

Hope any changes in your neck of the woods makes you as happy as changes have made us!

Angel and Isabella 

Weekend Wrap Up

We hope you had a good weekend!  We had a busy one doing tax returns and holding down boxes...

We also helped make jewelry and model it too...

The necklace is not only pretty, it has good movement too!

Mommy moved pretty darn quick after that too!  MOL!  We did have a visitor in our cul-de-sac yesterday, a llama named Mooney...

Our front window was open so we heard him make a cute sound, then Mommy saw him at the neighbor's and ran outside to pet him (and almost bring him home).  It's certainly not every day you see a llama walking around our neighborhood!

Anyway, we hope this week goes quickly and then time can slow down once again.  

We hope you have a wonderful Monday!

Angel and Isabella

Behind the Scenes

Remember my adorable photo on Wordless Wednesday of me looking at my cute self in the mirror.  Well, I thought I'd show you the behind the scenes since it wasn't quite as easy as it may have appeared.  You see, Mommy went to the guest room downstairs and waited for me to follow her as always without me noticing but I found her and noticed the cell phone ready to take photos...

Of course I pretended not to know what she was up to by meandering over to the mirror...

I floofed up my tail while still keeping an eye on her...

I even cleaned a smudge off the mirror since somebuddy obviously doesn't clean good enough...

Okay Mommy, you won't put that phone down so I'll give you just one chance so are you ready?

And that is when I gave her the look she was waiting for, a deep thoughtful gaze at my own beautiful reflection...

We just gotta make our beans work for the photos sometimes since no kitty performs on demand.

Do you change your behavior when you know there's a camera on you?

Hope your day is filled with lovely things to reflect on!

Angel

Behind the Scenes

I thought I'd take a break from routine and show you the hard work that goes on around here in creating the beady goodies in our shop that we usually feature on Fridays.  Yesterday I helped Mommy make a couple pairs of earrings.  I worked so hard I was too tired to model them...

But being the purrfessional that I am, I still helped by sticking my paw in the window to determine the wind speed to make sure the earrings didn't blow away...

It's hard work but somekitty has to nap do it...

I obviously did my job purrfectly because one pair of earrings sold last night!
What would Mommy do without me?

Hope you don't work too hard today!

Angel

PeeS:  Our Siberian Husky friend Thunder got some really bad news yesterday so if you'd like to offer him and his mom some support, please stop by their blog here.  We're sending lots of love and purrs to Thunder and his family.

Nappus Interruptus

We had a nice Sunday which meant napping in open windows...

Well, until somebuddy came along and wanted to put me to work modeling.  I did not appreciate the interruption so tried to ignore her...

She didn't take the hint so I'd tried the kitty glare...

Since she wouldn't leave, might as well rub my cooties on the prop...

That worked.  She let me be so I promptly resumed my nap!

Hope you had a lovely weekend too!

Angel

Supermodels or just Supernatural?

So many times we're woken up happy to help Mommy model jewelry.  Of course each photo session is like a box of litter, you never know what you're gonna get!  Isabella thought her paws looked rather artsy in this photo with Mommy's newest bracelet...

And I look very Angelic in this photo don't I?

I knew I was a purrfect Angel but it's not always captured in a photo.  Of course, no matter the photo, our beauty always shines through!

Let your beauty shine through today and every day!

Angel

PeeS:  Thanks for all the birthday wishes and comments for Isabella last Friday.  We're going to round up the number of comments so our donation to Alley Cat Allies is $50!

Thankful Thursday

Our friend Edi from Memories for Life Scrapbooks made new ornaments for dogs and cats in her shop this year.  Well, it so happened that the name on the sample cat ornament she made is my name!   Since it had my name on it already, Edi was very kind and sent it to me!  

I love it!  It's absolutely purrfect and it even passes the official Tortie Taste Test...

And my own secret test that always freaks Mommy out...

She also made one for my little sisfur Angel.  She loves her ornament too but as you can see, she loves birdies just a bit more...

She did take time out to give it the official Angel sniff test and it passed...

Thank you so much Edi!  We love our ornaments very much!  

We hope you have lots to be thankful for today!

Isabella and Angel