Caption Competition

It’s almost a year since Basil lost his brother and he’s definitely a changed cat.  He stays indoors more than he used to, he cries a lot more and over the last few months he has been permanently demanding food.  We found out why this week – he has an overactive thyroid.  Ironically, I have [...]

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Basement Cat turns Thirteen

If you are not a fan of I Can Has Cheezburger, then you might not get the joke here.  Basically, the site has evolved the concept of an enlightened higher being known as Ceiling Cat, who is always a white cat and his evil counterpart, Basement Cat who is nearly always portrayed as a jet [...]

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Basil the Brave

Last week we had our new boiler installed as you know.  Well Basil (Lord High Imperator of this Realm, etc, etc) was not impressed with having his peace so rudely shattered, yet he couldn’t just abandon his territory to these wrench-wielding marauders, but had to keep a sharp eye on proceedings to make sure they [...]

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Not Guilty, Your Worship

Is that …. a CREAM cake?!?!
For me?  Oh, you shouldn’t have.

Oh, you didn’t.  Hrrrmphh.
Well a cat can dream.
And scheme …

… and eventually the hoomins will give in to my excessive kyootness.

Nom, nom, nom.

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A work in progress

I’m already hard at work on the next Glimmer Mist Album.  This one is the Garden album which has a gorgeous embossed tree on the front, little glimmer glass (acetate) gates and a mix of gatefold and plain pages inside.

I have actually finished all the pages and assembled the album back together, but I don’t [...]

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What does a cat have to do to get attention round here?

Camp out in the Glimmer Mist spray booth of course …

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iz in ur compootr, haijackin ur blogs

It’s me, Basil.  Mum caught me looking at cat porn, so she said if I could do that, I could write my own blog post.  It’s a little tricky without opposable thumbs, but she said there would be real tuna if I did it.

So here I am.  I am a lithe, fit, handsome teenager with [...]

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Thanks Basil

I accidentally locked Basil in the craft room overnight on Thursday and when I heard the pathetic little mew coming from inside as I came down the stairs on Friday morning, my first reaction was one of of dread. What on earth had he got up to overnight. Would I find projects ripped [...]

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Black Cat Studio

We’ve been filming again today.  I think we must have had beginners luck last weekend because today was a lot harder.  Plus we kept getting the giggles.  Basil got camera shy and wasn’t going to play.  Adrian’s trying to convince me that we have the makings of a blooper reel, but we haven’t found the [...]

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Basil and the catnip mouse

I just had to share this!
Basil’s new toy a few days ago:

Basil’s toy last night:

Don’t worry, it’s all natural materials, specially designed so that if he did ingest any of it he would come to no harm.  In actual fact, we watched him literally love it to death, then teased him away from it with [...]

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