The Big Bugger again...

Here is the latest update on my Big Bugger of a Boria . As you can see, I have half of the ginormous rug behind me by now. Meaning I have stitched about 100.000 plus stitches (and frogged many of them , too). The chart is not that hard, but sometimes one gets a blind spot and one has to make the same piece over and over, because it does not come out right. Sigh. I am counting impaired....Yes, right, I am whining big time over this baby!

Re: my patient: yesterday I had a heart-to-heart with Floris's vet; I needed some input from someone who knows him, his history, and who knows me, too. He advised me to have a go at painkillers and look if the guy still enjoys life. Floris took the painkiller rather graciously ( he does not dislike them and they work quite well).Well, he obvioulsy still does- he stole my salmon pate last night.
Of course, we do not have much time together any more, but I do honestly not think he is really suffering right now.If/when I think he does,I will let him go, of course.

My little patient

Floris is going downhill fast by now. He is very thin, but that is not the worst news ; I saw him walking lopsided last week and now I have discovered why this is so- there appears to be  a lump ( possibly a lymphnode metastasis) underneath his front paw . I can't move it  from his ribs, so either he is in pain already or will be soon.
It will be time to think about saying goodbye to this lovely sweet and brave furkid of mine in a very foreseeable future. Well, I knew this was about to happen, of course, but that doesn't make it less hard. And the real problem, of course, is deciding when enough is enough- he still loves lying and sleeping  in the sun, comes for his food and for his cuddles.

But there is also trouble

on the other side of my room, where the mouse house is situated.
Somehow the neighbour, a mr Skunk, who regularly looks deeeeeply into his glass, has shown up on the doorstep and is singing loudly. That wouldn't b so bad, but he  has a bad voice and is off- key all the time. Still, I suppose he is enjoying himself....

One of the little meece  disappeared and has gone to the swing in the garden.

Grisly character in the Kendrew scullery....

I recently found this guy in Patricia Pauls Etsy shop. I mean,honestly- I did resist him for a day or two - and then caved in. He might have had ideas of going to my Highwayman, but no way- he has gone to live in my really posh Kendrew . Poor Molly, who had already jumped on a chair because of some small furry critters ( mice and rats) does not even know she is in BIG trouble.....

The Kendrew kitchen again

Last week I saw a wonderful site, the one of Jason Getzan. He produced a DVD of "Morningside Cottage" , the Miss Marple house of Sarah Salisbury, one of my favourite miniatures. It had been in existence since  a long time, but as a video, which I could not see( as I live in PAL country). The DVD opens well, actually and is absolutely worth the 20 bucks spent on it.

BUT while I was there, I saw these wonderful copper pans and things and I have a thing with copper, well, in miniature, that is. He also sells very nice miniknives !
Today I hung the rack with its pans into the kitchen of my Kendrew house. It is a bit hard to drive anything into that ceiling, as it is hard wood and a narrow space, so please do not tell me I need to use a nicer hook or something or I will shout !!!

Since I was fighting with ceilings now, I also decided to hang a bird in a cage into the "beautiful kitchen"; that is where the butler has his writing table and the upper staff have their coffee/tea.

I also hopefully hung ( for the thousandth time ) a spice chest that for some reason ALWAYS  follows Newtons apple. Plonk.Sigh. Now I hope it will remain hanging for some time!!!!!

Two more little meece

Today they turned up on my doorstep: two more meeces from Kristy. One is a little warlock. I ahve sent him into teh scullery, where, unseen by his parents, he is brewing something dangerous. I expect to hear an explosion any time now.

With him came a little brother, who dressed up as  a  clown, bringing his own popcorn and peanuts ( it always helps when newbies bring in their own food). Since they had travelled together, I left them hanging out there for now, but I will probably evacuate the little clown soon. I mean, he is in real danger....

I am going to have a photosession real soon, as these pics are lousy- but you get the idea!

This is SCARY

Months ago, before I had the mouse house I was webshopping in a bead shop and I came upon this Fimo pendant.
The mouse settlement immediately came to mind, of course, so I bought together with the other supplies I wanted. I had to grunge it, it was too neat, of course, but today it was ready to go into the house.
Since it is next to impossible to pound  a nail in or even make  a hole, I simply decided to glue it in with heavy industrial glue- hoping it will never have to leave place again.

Of course, I hung it next to the kids' bunk- that will teach them being naughty. I mean, see that big spider on babys bed??????? Poor little girl....