Showing posts with label catnip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catnip. Show all posts

Sunday, September 21, 2008

A few more minutes of fame: Two treasuries

See, I told you I was headed for stardom--and now look, two treasuries at the same time--next step, Hollywood! To all those personal assistants of super-famous celebrities that I'm sure are already reading my blog since they know I'm obviously the next big thing, act fast on getting my goodies for your celeb--I'd hate you to miss out on being the person who discovered me, after all.

Anyway, all wit aside, (I know, hard to imagine, since I'm just so funny. It's hard, but I'll try not to make you laugh for just a moment or two. I'm sure your sides are positively aching and could use a rest anyway.) I am always excited when I get into a treasury (for those unfamiliar with Etsy, treasuries are basically public showcases of individual members favorite items; it's a real compliment to be included)--and these two I'm particularly happy about. The first one is a treasury+Buy-n-Replace (or BNR) game from a fellow EtsyForAnimals member--it has some really cool stuff, and if you decide to buy something you get an item of yours in the treasury (as long as it's still active of course). Even if you don't want to play the game, though, you should check out the cool goodies--especially the catnip pillow from UberDuperCreations, for my fellow kitty-lovers out there.

The other treasury is a lovely autumn-themed collection of members from the Bluegrass (i.e. Kentucky, my home state) Etsy Street team. Though my autumn-colored Kitty Love print is, of course, just awe-inspiring and will probably make you weep with wonder (how does she do it, you will ask yourself, and I will just shyly smile and blush in an ever-so-modest way), there are some other really brilliant items in this treasury--for the bead-lovers, I especially suggest looking at the Harvest necklace from ThesePreciousThings--it's jaw-droppingly gorgeous.

Sorry to do two posts so close together--but I was too excited about these treasuries to wait (plus treasuries are never up for more than a couple days).

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Review of ColoradoCatnipToys: Cats give it 4 paws up


So ColoradoCatnipToys and I arranged a trade on etsy (trades: one of the reasons to love etsy). She was interested in these cat cards and I was interested in her adorable catnip quilts. So she kindly suggested a trade and I eagerly agreed.

Tonight (after very fast shipping) the quilt arrived and I pulled it out. She'd also included one of her handmade catnip toys as an added goodie for the kitties, and boy were they happy about the whole package. Below is just a little of the fun that followed.

<--Allie Mae thought the blanket should be all hers.

Puma disagreed --->









& he wanted the toy to himself too...


but Zorro used a classic 10-yr-old-boy technique to lay claim to that:


This basically provided the Saturday night entertainment for my husband and I (and while part of me finds this so pitiful, another part knows I laughed a lot harder watching these kitties get messed up on catnip than I would have at the latest comedy in the theater--and this was much less expensive!)

Don't forget: my contest from the previous post is still going on! You could get freebies from me and then use those unspent funds to go get your cats some wonderful stuff from ColoradoCatnipToys :)

Note: Just in case anyone was wondering, this post was not at all sponsored or cajoled--it was purely inspired by how much my cats loved these items and the cute pictures that produced. Any time I do write a review that has been sponsored or arranged for through anything other than sheer delight I'll be sure to let my readers know--but I also won't ever write a review that's less than honest because without my integrity what good am I as a blogger and artist/crafter?