This Week in Pics: Cat Onesies, Cross Stich, and Haunted HDR

We've been struggling with Lily's over-grooming again, so the vet has us trying new meds. While we waited for those to kick in, though, we needed to prevent her licking a bad spot on her side - and desperate times called for desperate-but-adorable measures:

That's a hacked-up baby onesie - and Lily was surprisingly pretty ok with it. 

It worked, too; her side is healed and she's back to being her nekkid furry self. :)

I got a Christmas card in the mail that put a wonderful grin on my face:

 AnnaMay! I love that her folks used one of my pics for their photo card - LOVE. IT.

I'm working on a new cross stitch pattern:

Not gonna lie: I was tempted to stop there. :D

I've been watching Arrow while I stitch each night, and it's not bad! The main guy Oliver makes Anakin in The Phantom Menace look animated, and all of the characters are so gorgeous it's actually kind of annoying (ie the "awkward" tech girl who just stepped out of a Victoria's Secret catalog), but the story so far is great. Plus Harry Dresden is in it, so, booyah.

I discovered those cheap plastic snowflake ornaments you see everywhere make grrr-reat! gift bows:

Perfect for shipping or stacking, too! Just use a little blob of E-6000 to stick it to the ribbon. (And if you spell out the name with leftover scrapbooking stickers, you don't need a tag!)

Btw, I love wrapping so much I used to beg my friends to bring over their gifts so I could wrap everything for them. Please tell me I'm not the only one.

I don't mention it much, but John and I meet readers out at Disney almost every week some months. It's a fun way to hang out with fellow geeks, and we've now met new friends from all over the country/world that way. (Plus some weeks it's the only thing that gets me to leave the house - and you just can't put a value on that.)

Anyway, Wednesday night I spent a blissful few hours with Rachel - my new photography buddy - while her hubby Jeremy and John patiently waited for us to take oodles of long-exposure HDR shots around the Magic Kingdom. My favorite was when a cast member let us hop the queue chains in front of the Haunted Mansion, so we could sit on the ground and get shots like this:

I'll post a few more later, when I'm done playing with them all in Photomatrix. (Although I have a feeling Rachel's will put mine to shame; the woman knows her stuff!)

And now for the winner of this month's art roundup, since I'd like to mail it out in time for Christmas: 

Congratulations, Sarah Wilson! 

Please e-mail me your mailing address & choice of art from my Pinterest give-away board!

 Have a great weekend, guys!