It's Raining Shingles & Tiny Arms

Helloooo, my gingersnappy dressers and tea-riffic T-rexes! 

(I'm drinking ginger tea, can you tell?)

How's your week going?

Mine started off with a bang, since John and I just made the Least Fun Adulting Purchase Ever: a new roof.


Gee, we shouldn't have.

Seriously, is there a less satisfying major expense than a new roof? Our old roof was fine, even; it was just old. So because insurance and blah blah boring stuff we have a herd of step-dancing buffalo body slamming our ceilings for the next few days. 

I hoped to sleep through some of it, but at 7:05AM the house began to shake, rattle, & roll, and I had two VERY concerned felines trying to crawl inside my pajama top. (Apparently armageddon makes cats snuggly.) So we packed up the group, got a grip, came equipped, grabbed the proton packs scaredy cats off our backs, and we SPLIT.

Yes that was the rap from Ghostbusters 2. I'm a little punchy. What.

Anyhoozle, I'm currently camping out at a friend's apartment with the cats, who really are MUCH happier, no matter what Eva tells you. I swear this cat turns into a dying bassoon the second we put her in a carrier. The drama! The over-acting! The sheer vocal range.

I can't gripe about Eva without showing you some funny/cute pictures, though, so here are some from last week:

Aww. Ok, I guess she's worth the yowling during car rides.

And don't worry, Suki fans, I've got pics for you, too:

Goals.

Suki is the perfect silent angel in the carrier, btw, and is currently chilling on the floor in my friend's guest room giving exasperated, superior looks at Eva - who has zero chill - hiding under the bed. Looks like this:

::to Eva:: "You are a sad, strange little cat."

Huh. You know, this post was supposed to be something completely different, but my brain is mush and apparently I just wanted to talk about my cats, so... here we are. ::sleepy grin::

Before I keel over let me end with something super fun and silly, something I've wanted to show you for a while now. Remember the Firefly-inspired dinosaur mirrors John made last August? (If not, go see!) Well John made another variation on the T-Rex mirror, this time inspired by one of my favorite .gifs of all time:

That little arm shimmy makes me laugh out loud every. time.

This .gif is of course from the criminally underrated Disney film Meet The Robinsons, where the villain, Bowler Hat Guy, controls the dino with a tiny bowler hat robot. (You can just see it on the T-Rex's head in the gif.)

Ready to see John's mirror homage?

John designed the text in Photoshop, then cut everything from white vinyl with our Cricut.

Please note the tiny bowler hat robot in the foot:

... and the crowning touch, an actual plastic bowler hat I've had for years - I think it came off a bottle of hot sauce? [Correction: it's from a bottle of Broker's Gin!]

I attached the hat with hot glue, tipped forward at a jaunty angle so the mirror can still hang on the wall if we want. Obviously it is MUCH bigger than the tiny movie hat, but I like it better this size.

And for that perfect geeky combo, John chose to display his "Big Head" mirror next to my tiny Herman head from our Beetlejuice Halloween. (Herman was a throw-away build, but like many of my throw-away projects, John claimed it.)

This is the most subtle visual gag, but it makes me grin.

I hope our cats and raining shingles and tiny armed T-rex gave you a smile today, too. Here's to a quieter household the next time we chat, and better sleeps between.

::collapses face down into pillow::

*****

P.S. Here's John's original dino mirrors, in case you missed them!

The mirrors are from Dollar Tree and always seem to be in stock, so this is an inexpensive, fun Cricut craft. I have the free cut templates here, along with a whale design for you Hitchhiker's Guide fans.

And if you're looking for more fun DIYs, mosey your mouse over to my Tutorials page! I've got nearly 200 thumbnails for you to browse, from furniture builds to origami to cosplay, and everything in between.