We Interrupt this Blog with an important message from...THE CLONE

This is mom's clone who was working on Santa Knows Address?? which has just been finished. The only thing I'll be working on for my older clone tonight thankfully. She would be telling you this herself (though not as good as I can tell you) but Oberon is lying on her, keeping her from getting up while Star sits on the purple chair next to me, making sure I do my work. Apparently the cats are starting a conspiracy to make me do all the work around here *starts grumbling about that* I should probably wrap this up before she sends the search party out for me.
So Signing Off, The Younger Clone.

Wence cometh "Get Off The Table?" or Off Mommy Brown's Table!!

In the store there is a Gray Cat who says "What Means This... 'Get off the table?!'".  As I'm sure you know, all cats do this.  So do ours.  But while ours sometimes get onto other tables, it primarily comes from one particular table.  You see, leading from the living room to the kitchen there is a wall where the pantry is located.  Against this wall is a drop table which belonged to my wonderful husband's grandmother, Mommy Brown.

:::sighs::  This morning, I said to Zaphoid as I went to make coffee, "Get off of Mommy Brown's table."  As I came out of the kitchen to come back to the office to turn on the computer I said to Star, "Star, get off of Mommy Brown's table!"  After I got dressed and headed back to the kitchen I looked at Oberon and said, "Get off of Mommy Brown's table."  Thomas has not been getting onto Mommy Brown's table lately.  This is because I scored 14 boxes of books from Freecycle (this afternoon I'm giving away an old computer to someone who needs one, whoot!).  But then he's always preferred to work on silly sleeping poses instead anyway.

I'm going to check with the day job and see if they have any work for me.  Until I hear from them, I'm going to head over to the shop and put in some more of the graphics in Magic Man/Cat and Witchy Woman/Kitty.  And if they don't, I'll just keep on working on the shop today.  Once I get the other eight for each section (four cane cats & four wheelchair cats) I'll start working on Christmas Cats, unless someone requests cats for Thanksgiving.

Busy Morning!

Whew!  I've got to take a serious break before I put these up but I managed to finish all of the graphics for the Magic/Witchy section.  Now I'll just have to put them up.  Which, oddly enough, usually takes longer than making the graphic itself.  meh.  At any rate, for those who are interested, this is what will be upcoming...

Witchy Kitty 1 & 2
Witchy Kitty Cane Cat 1 & 2
Witchy Kitty Chair Cat 1 & 2
Magic Cat 1 & 2
Magic Cat Cane Cat 1 & 2
Magic Cat Chair Cat 1 & 2
Witchy Woman 1 & 2
Witchy Woman Cane Cat 1 & 2
Witchy Woman Chair Cat 1 & 2
Magic Man 1 & 2
Magic Man Cane Cat 1 & 2
Magic Man Chair Cat 1 & 2

I'm sure you've noticed the trend of having a Cane Cat & Chair cat in my designs.  There's a reason for that.  Actually, two reasons.  First, I've had friends all my life who've had to use canes or chairs and it's always kind of bugged me that there weren't any cool shirts etc designed for them.  Then my knees went out when I was 26 and I started to have to use a cane or chair off and on through the years and noticed, gee whiz, there still aren't a lot of really cool shirts out there with regular people using canes or chairs.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog.

Trick or Treat Section is done...

...and sadly so am I.  At least for the rest of the day.  Alas, my darling daughter, who is 16; has brought home a bug.  Not a pretty bug, nor a computer bug (although I suspect there might be one on her cpu which she hasn't even bothered to turn on in almost a week now... paranoid much?  I wonder where she got it from ::looks around the room innocently::), but an evile nasty viral bug.

And as such things conspire to do, both my 13 yo son and my heart & soul aka my husband, are not showing any signs of coming down with it.  grrrrrrrrr.  Oh well, at least that means we can get them to fetch drinks & things, yes?  But I did manage to go by the grocery which wore me out.  And I did manage, just now, to finish the Trick or Treat section "at" the store.  So, there are six new cats up...

Highly Illogical Holiday
Tricked Again!!
Emo Kitty... No Treats
Tonight... a broom
...I Give Toys
Official Potion Maker

Now I'm going to go collapse in the bed and take more painkillers & muscle relaxers & hope that helps.  I will, in all probability, be joined by Zaphoid¹ (if he isn't already there and then by the baby of the family (who also weighs the most, go figure!), Oberon.  I'll also take my temp again, last time it was only 99.8 which is a Good Thing™.  I'm crossing my fingers that I'll be up to working on the new section of Halloween tomorrow which only has four cats right now.  I'm going to be doing some editing on those, just changing the names, which is fairly easy.  Making "Witchy Kitty" into "Witchy Woman" and "Magic Man" into "Magic Cat", although I'm wondering if that last should be "Magic Kat" instead to match "Magic Kitty".

Okay, closing this post down everyone!  Hugs & purrs to those who want them & if I don't see you until later, have a safe & happy weekend!!

Okay... maybe not...

I came home with the cat food.  I fed the cats so they would not bite off our toes (this is a Good Thing™ since we need our toes).  I noticed that I was feeling a wee bit hot.  So, what the heck, I decided to take my temperature.  100.3.  This is not my usual temperature.  Generally I'm 98.7 on the nose.  As I was sitting contemplating this, along with the fact that I had not picked up the heart of my heart & the soul of my soul's meds (aka my husband), the phone rang.

It was my daughter calling from school.  Now she had been feeling a bit punk this morning but she's a Junior now and pretty determined to stay at school and do her work because all but two of her classes are honors courses.  ::sigh::  So off I went, stopping on the way to pick up the meds I'd forgotten earlier.  I had the thermometer in the car with me.  They pulled her out of her Latin II class and we got into the car.  99.7.  Of course, normally this might not be considered very high.  But Jennifer's normal temperature is 97.6.  ::head:desk::  Just what we need.  Because my husband is diabetic.  So when I called to tell him about this, his first words were, "Don't let her on my side of the bed!"  ::grin::

But that's why putting up more things today... just might not happen.  I'm off to eat lunch and push fluids!!

Finishing Up & New Halloween Section Coming Soon...

But it has to wait until I go to the grocery.  You see, we're out of cat food.  So I have a mission.  I must seek more Iams.  Otherwise the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde will eat our toes.  No, really!!  But since I've only had 5 hours of work on the day job since the 1st of the month, I feel pretty sure that I can put in the rest of the Trick or Treat section and then create the Witchy Kitty & Magic Man.  Although I just thought about it and you know, I think I'm going to change that to Magic Cat.  I've only got two each of those designs.  Both have the same cat in different colors with different fonts.  I'm wondering how I should do others.  Gray cat?  Shy cat?  Giggle kitty?  hmmmmmmmmm.  What to do, what to do, what to do...

Any thoughts out there in cyberspace?

Four More Sections...

I've gotten in four more sections in Trick or Treat.  Halloween Evile Cat, Good Witch Cat, the couple that needs to Buy More Treats,  and the Kitten's Halloween Checklist.  While I was working on the Buy More Treats one (and cafepress was being a poohbear), Oberon hopped up on the back of the computer chair.  Now normally the one who does this is StarWalker BitCat the ComputerKitty.

Next Oberon proceeds to try to use the mouse and then the keyboard.  I kept pulling him off of the desktop and he finally decided that putting 15 pounds of cat in my lap Would Do™.  ::rolls eyes::  I figured that this was a sign that I'd better not do much more.  So I finished up with the Kitten's Checklist and went ahead and loaded up the graphics for Official Potion Maker, Tricked Again!, I Give Toys¹,  Tonight It's a Broom², and Holiday Highly Illogical.

One of my things is this... because it's hard to go through and put up thing after thing yada yada yada, I do a lot of importing.  But sometimes the sizes are smaller than they can be on the shirts.  I always up the size on the totes and check the magnets & buttons and I've been known to redo all of the shirts but when my fibro is acting up I don't always do it.  So, should I go back and do it or no?  hmmmmmm



¹  For Halloween, I give toys instead of candy.  I've always done it, I don't know why but it's now a Good Thing™ because my husband is diabetic.  The kids actually like it and come up to my house going "This is the house with the toys!!".  Some of the other people in the neighborhood are starting to do it too.

² I was trying to come up with something for my cane cat... and I was working on a witch hat... and voila!

Sleep Much??

Somehow I managed to forget to pick up my lyrica on Wednesday. This was a Bad Thing™ because, of course, I ended up hurting. The weird thing was that I slept through most of Saturday. Well... except for some time spend with my 16 yo daughter. She was up on line with her new netbook and I was reading. Then she wanted to watch a movie with me. Okay. Halfway through she disappeared.

Sunday I took both... hmmmm... they're both teenagers so I suppose I can't really call them kidlets. Okay, I took the adolescents to their father so they could visit their paternal grandparents & their great-grandfather. Then I came home and slept until the heart of my heart came home from a gig in Memphis. Then I slept some more.

Today I slept until the adolescents came home. Then I slept some more. But I'm awake now! So I'm off to cafepress to put up some more stuff into Trick or Treat.  I've got a couple of cane cats, a good witch... don't worry... I'll let you know when I'm done!!

Shutttttttttt downnnnnnn

I know I need to stop for the night when I look down and the computer clock says that it's 18:06...07... anyway. After lunch, amidst kinderlein coming home and being asked if they had homework et al, I managed to get seven more graphics done for the Trick or Treat section. Whew!! My hands are freezing again. meh. I'm down to just making the three Cane Cats... who am I kidding?? That's just if I don't pop up with something else at the last minute! ::grin::

So, unless they have some actual work from my day job tomorrow (crossing fingers), I'll start putting those up tomorrow. I'm not sure which takes longer sometimes, making the graphic itself or putting it up on cafepress? There are times when one of both will just sliiiiiide into place with ease and click! There you are. And then there are the times when you feel like you are wrestling with a seven-headed hydra... or worse... a two-year old who has had no nap. ::shudder::

So... tomorrow sees...
An evile plan...
Consoling about getting more treats...
Kitten's Halloween Checklist...
Someone who finds the holiday highly illogical...
The Official Potion Maker...
Gray Cat getting tricked!!...
Giggle Cat as the Good Witch!!

whew! No wonder I'm exhausted!!!! Okay, can I fall down now? Yes? I can? Oh good. The ComputerKitty has concurred. All is well. What's that? Am I crossing my fingers for or against? Oh gosh, it has to be for right now. That's the only income I'm bringing in until enough someones ::looks innocently around the room::, not naming names or anything, decide they like what they see at the shop and buy enough to make up the difference. ::grin::

May everyone have a safe and peaceful night.

Slow Going This Morning...

I feel like I haven't really gotten much done this morning.  I had to resize the graphics on the two new designs I put in the Trick or Treat  section.  meh.  I also changed one design.  My mom, who is one of my critics, said that she really didn't like the Official Costume Inspector so I changed it from using the Doctor Cat to another of the cats holding a magnifying glass.  I feel good about finally having gotten Chair Cat in but then I realized that I don't have a Cane Cat done!!  Eeeeeep!  Now I have to figure out what Cane Cat is going to say for Halloween.

Because I use a wheelchair and/or cane myself when I'm out & about (knees & fibro), I have this thing about having both a Chair Cat and a Cane Cat for special sections, such as cards & holidays.  I'm going to be putting in the Witchy Kitty & Magic Man section after I finish up making some more cats for Trick or Treat (as well as a few more Witchy Kitties & Magic Men!).  I'm debating whether or not I should make anything for Thanksgiving or not.  I will definately be making cats for Christmas so I'm not sure if I should just jump straight into that or not.  It's a question of how soon folx want Christmas stuff, ya know?  Hmmmmm... it's 12:40... I should probably stop and do a lunchthing.  Lunchthings are goooOOOoood.

I haven't been getting any work from my day job.  Oh yes!  I actually am a graphic artist, although I only make math graphics for XXX.  But I'm a contract worker and if they don't me work then... gee, I don't get fed.  No, it's actually not quite that bad.  But it is why I'm hoping that this shop will take off!!  Rather like I should take off to the kitchen for food!!  ::grin::