Phuh, this week is Autumn holiday week for school kids so I've had the kids at home almost every day this week <3
Been a good mum and made them bake, watched Lego StarWars movie, painted and play games with them all week. It's been very nice, but GOD it left me drained. I can't wait until Monday when they start school again!
Tomorrow is TeeBee's Birthday party for the relatives so I have a LOT to do.
I've done a few things so far...(but the stupid video didn't want to be uploaded...)
Friday TeeBee had his usual Halloween Birthday party.
After the 5 minutes fast decoring (that actually turned out very good!) I did all over the place the party started.
I looked like this:
I'm quite satisfied with how the look turned out!
The dress I bought at Vanilla in Camden, London.
We left a note on the door for the guests:
"Ring the bell, count to 30 then enter. If you dare...."
It was just to give their kids a scary walk.
We put scary music on as we heard the bell and went hiding in the kitchen.
As they entered there was a fake man sleeping on the bench just inside the door.
They went through the slaughter drapery, went face to face with the ghost and a witches pot with smoke.
Entered the living room with the smashed witches legs under the table, sneak up to the lady with the black bag over her head.
Then we went out and TeeBee declared: Welcome to my party!!!
We had a fab evening and Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline and Corpse Bride was rolling on the telly.
In the intriguing tale of the life of Adora, we have reached the "Sunday Goth".
Many have wondered, but few have the facts.
There once was a time when people who found out were never found with a body temperature ever again, but you might take the chance.
I can't guarantee your safety though...
This was a total cheat on my side: chocolate covered finger cookies rolled into a piece of marzipan. An almond splint for a nail and some red food color.
Press in a few lines on the finger and you are done!
Collected the kids snakes and spiders and put in different jars.
Added some flies on top.
They will all get label tags on them later when I'm in front of my computer.
This can be made SO much better with adding colored water in the jars as well, but I'm not as dedicated this year and it's supposed to be fast crafting.
I had two chairs standing against a wall,kind of boring...
Put over a white sheet, covered the painting with paper and me and TeeBee went wild.
Happened to have a witches pot and one of my lovely sister Iva Insane hair dressers head laying around and together they made a good match!
Hang the bloody nightgown that you have all made of course after watching my YouTube video Bloody Nightgown. *right?* on the new bench.
It looks OK.
I was fortunate to have a dress hanger torso.
Put on a skirt, jacket, balloon on top with a pillow case over it and a rope around the neck.
Placed shoes at bottom and ta-daa I had someone to hang!
I will make a real hang man knot later, but I won't dare to do it now in case I get any ideas....
I've seen many wonderful versions of this - all better than mine, but I'm in a hurry!
Stockings of choise, I like striped.
A pair of shoes.
A pair of buckles on a stretch band.
Filling (a real chopped of leg/shirt/pillow filling, towel...)
I filled mine with newspaper (that's why she's got so ugly legs).
Put the parts together and squeeze them under something to make it look like she got smashed!
I cut out a puddle of blood in red paper.Dark red velvet would have been better but I was out of stock.
I've seen people who dressed their table "legs" in stockings and put a shoe at the end. That's super cool!
In Sweden we don't celebrate Halloween like in US for example. Often we just put a light on lost loved ones graves and had a bit of still evening.
But people here are catching up and we start to have Halloween parties a bit more like in the US, but it is still a bit "new".
Me and my friends have celebrated, or at least had scary masquerades for about 20 years, but it was not common back then and people looked very strange at us when we went out like scary clowns, ninjas,Death, Wednesday Addams, zombies,vampires and mummys. They stared more then usual *haha*
This year I will not attend a real Halloween party, just TeeBee 's Halloween Birthday party. But I'll try to make it cool.
Friday TeeBee will have his Halloween Birthday party for our friends and their kids.
Today is TeeBee 's day at home so I made him work! He had to bake his own Birthday cake the poor child.
I'm such a evil Goth mum!
The cake turned out fab. Gonna make my kids work more often!
If you want a cat I will totally recommend to everyone to take on an outplacement cat.
(I'm not sure that is the right word in english..?)
If you are like me, interested in a special breed and maybe color, you can still find a grown up breeders cat that needs a new home by many different reasons. Sometimes a breeder get a cat back from a previous owner since it didn't match the other cat at home (or the sofa), perhaps the owner is moving and can't keep the little one. Often there are very normal reasons for the cat moving.
Most breeders cats here in Sweden only have a few litters, then they will retire and often these cats can have trouble fitting in with the more aggressive fertile girls as a castrate and would love to have a new, bit calmer retirement home - maybe yours?
If you go for a siamese - go for two! They love company (most cats do) and you will get a much happier cat - well - cats!
Some of Porsches babies from the last litter. They are sooooo cute!
The things I see positively with taking on an adult cat is you already know the temper of the cat.
Kittens can be SO crazy!
And for us, having 3 kids as well, we don't have the time to dicipline another baby AND an adult cat can tell the kids when enough is enough! Miu! There - you lost an arm, kiddo!
We have always had the best of luck with our outplacement cats.
They have all grown to be so adored by us.
For example; Princen when he arrived HATED being tickled on his cute belly and always was like a fox trap around your arm as soon as you tried to touch him there.
We trained him for a week with shoving him over, layed our hand on his belly and waited for the fox trap to close. Aouu!! It was such pain!!
But we kept the hand still, said "No", and waited for him to release his grip and then gave him re-inforcement by saying "Good" and then let go of his cutie belly.
One week later he was so happy to have his mushi-mushi belly tickled. We could even bury our face in it without risking the head coming off...
Since then he turns belly side up as soon as you come near him. Isn't that just too sweet <3
I am a real sucker for siamese cats, any color, but seal point got that special something for me.
Their temeperament is lovely, they are very attentive to you, wants to be with you all the time, are funny, happy and crazy, many likes to play apport, they are kind and almost baby like in the way the love you.
They are maintanence free (and for Cat Shows you just have to comb their fur for a week, clean their ears, nose and eyes and then you are ready to win!).
A Foreign White (white siamese, always hearing). This is Albert. Picture borrowed from breeder La Voix.
For you who lives in Sweden and also wanna check out the princes and princesses of the cat world, go to a cat show, speak with the breeders, let them know who you are and get a feeling for the breed.
If you are interested in having a cat for cat shows, take help from a pro on how your breeds standard is.
Both Signhild, Porsche and even Princen (he competed in the domestic cat league) won in their class (well, Princen came on 2'd place, but that was a proud moment still!).
Here are some pages where you can find outplacement cats from serious people: Siames i Fokus: Omplacering
This girl, Honeybun, is one outplacement cat, and she's got good genes for Cat Shows I can tell.
(don't know if she's still up for adoption though)
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