Cats & Cricut Crafts

It's been less than a month since we put the cats on a diet, and I gotta say, I'm impressed. The girls are more playful, running around more, and shoving more things off the table in protest of this situation:

"Your glass of water is next."



All this extra energy is definitely fueling some extra sass:

 

She legit made eye contact while I was yelling at her, and did this:

OH NO SHE DID NOT


Eva is just as bad. I use the bathroom off our bedroom during the day, so she lies in wait outside the bedroom door and slips into the room after me... which means she then gets locked in the very room we're trying to keep her out of.

We keep them out because I got tired of bed sheets covered in cat hair. So of course I come back several hours later to find her lounging on my side of the bed.

Ah, ok, but this was cute: I know it's nothing new that cats like sinks, but I've never seen either of ours in a sink until this week, so, INDULGE ME:

Eva sashayed in while I was brushing my hair and just plopped down. D'aww. I'm telling you, dieting has made them BOLD. Why can't human diets do that? I had to give up milk and onion and garlic so my gut wouldn't self-destruct, and all *I* got in exchange was extra strength sarcasm.

Also now my sink is covered in black cat hair.

Dangit, Eva.

(She looks fierce but she's actually SUPER happy right there, mrowing loudly and purring.)

Here's Suki wrestling her favorite furry tail toy thing:

We weighed them, and both girls seem to have lost between half a pound and a whole pound. (We're not super exact with our measuring.) Best part, we don't have to wash Suki's nethers as often; I think maybe she can reach better now? YUSS.

(Sometimes I stop and think about the stuff I'm sharing with 10,000 strangers on the internet and think, wow. I am living the life.)

Next, because I can't write about only one thing in a post: here are some cute door decals John and I designed for friends a while back:

 

My favorite part is the D pad plus sign. I wish I could share the Cricut file, since we put this together from scratch, but the font isn't in Design space so it doesn't want to work, boo. Still, maybe this will give you some inspiration to design your own?

One more, remember the rainbow unicorn room we did last September? Now Ellie has a door decal to match:



We used some color-shifting vinyl for this one, and OOOOOOOH:

It shifts from purple to green/teal to orangey pink:

 

Last thing, which again is completely unrelated, but that's how I roll here: I started playing Portal 2 again for my birthday, and I just need to geek out with someone over how amazing this game is. I'd forgotten so much of it, even though I've played it 2 or 3 times before. It's laugh-out-loud funny the whole way, filled with clever puzzles that make my brain work but in a low-stress way, and then the parts where you fly through the air make me go "WHEEEEE", which amuses John.

(Fun fan art by Atlas-White)

I love revisiting fandoms and losing myself all over again in their amazingness, although it always feels a little strange when it's an OLD fandom. So tell me, which games or shows or books did you fall in love with AFTER all the hype was over? Which bandwagons were you the last to jump on?  Tell me in the comments, so we can commiserate/flail together, haha.


Then go have an AMAZING weekend, because you've earned it.

Love ya.

::mwah::