Shelf curtain

On May 24, 2023May 20, 2023 By CarynIn Life Hack

I decided to rearrange the office/music room, which was a good thing because I’d been tucking things in there for five years and had forgotten I’d stashed most of it. Some was worth keeping, much was not. In the purge, I found a shower curtain that I bought as a background screen in the COVID years to hide the clutter from Zoom calls (oh yeah, I’ll admit to it). Well, this curtain also fits great on my wire shelving unit. Same height, nice bit of wrap around. Yes, I’m still hiding things behind a curtain, but it is a pretty curtain.

Kitten update

On May 23, 2023May 22, 2023 By CarynIn Cats

Our foster kitten is doing well. He had his first official trip to the vet; he has had his first round of kitten vaccinations, has been dewormed, and is getting ointment for his eye goobers. He has discovered a favorite hiding/nap spot, but comes out when we come in. He has leapt joyfully into play, and has been receptive when we substitute a toy instead of fingers. His favorite thing right now is a spring toy. His purr is like thunder. The vet paperwork names him Thorn (since I pulled him out of a thorn bush), but we affectionately drop the “n” and call him Thor (or little man, or kitten, or … we use a collection). To keep his dander down, we’ll use a waterless bath foam and brushing, and a few days after his shots, he’ll get his first flea treatment.

Thor with a collection of toys in front of his hiding spot

Spinning a blaze

On May 22, 2023May 18, 2023 By CarynIn Craft

My youngest gave me a box of yellow to orange dyed merino wool and I decided to spin it up separately rather than blend it (so many choices with these bundles of colors!)

I like the small bundles of wool because they transport easily; I can walk with the roving loosely around my fiber hand, or I can pop the fiber into a container in my purse so I can spin while waiting.

Time cat

On May 21, 2023 By CarynIn Cats, photography

Today you get a picture of a time cat, because Izzy was perfectly lined up with the grandfather clock in the background and it made me snicker. Izzy was not amused at my antics.

Cloud tassel

On May 20, 2023 By CarynIn Craft, photography, Sky

Every year I make bookmarks for my youngest’s teachers. The teachers love them, and my youngest gets enthused about ideas. This time she wanted herself flying through the sky, so we took her picture laying on a bench, and I Photoshopped her onto a sky with fluffy clouds (since she chose to wear her fluffy cloud sky shirt). But what to do for the tassel? I went digging through my stash, looking for white felt, but instead found some poly batting. I could work with that. To make the clouds, I cut out a oblong of batting, then melted the edges with a candle flame to reinforce the edges and make it more cloud-like.

I attached the “clouds” to the bookmarks with a length of pearlized cotton. For this blog, for safety sake, I blurred out her name and face. The bookmarks that went to the teachers were not blurred!