I have often blogged about my beloved, albeit cross-eyed kitty Minnow, who has been a most loyal pet for more than 10 years, sleeping on my pillow every night, extending a wee furry paw to say, “hey, I’m here and I love you, even if you haven’t shaved your legs in a week.”
Minnow in all of her benevolence even begrudgingly let my sweetie into our house and now even lets him feed her every night. Yes, yes–she has been known to hiss at any new person who comes in the house, but she’s almost always sweet and loving towards me.
I must admit I was a bit concerned about how Minnow would react to the Peach. We were told that we should have the cat not sleep with us and to break her of her pillow habit as soon as I became pregnant, but I felt I needed to give Minnow as much love as possible up to the day before the Peach came, knowing that the old cat was going to be thrown a loop when her favorite sleeping spot was taken.
I must admit that having a baby did cut into my cat cuddling time.
Here is poor Minnow, kicked out of her favorite chair by me and the baby, sulking near her toys. Doesn’t it break your heart?
Minnow tried to sneak back into the forbidden bedroom by wedging herself into my sock basket in my closet. This is what I found one morning, while looking for my favorite argyles. Which I did find, lbeit covered in cat hair.
But Minnow persevered and found her way near me, even when I was holding the baby. Exhibit A:
You see, Minnow and baby can co-exist. Minnow has even come up purring and sniffed her little head and even in her little cat brain, I think she knows how special the Peach is to me and has respect for her and me.
Whoops! Must run. Baby crying! More later.
Well, the Peach and I are still rocking it! Here she is with her snappy bff, Raggedy!
I must admit, the Peach has been cutting into my crafty time, since my hands are being well spent holding her, I can share with you one project I did finish before Feb. 26.
Exhibit A: our main bathroom.
(And you thought most of the transformation work would be in the nursery. HA!)
Anyway, it’s amazing what can be done with paint and fabric to transform a room!
When we moved in, the bathroom was perfectly acceptable painted in Benjamin Moore Linen White that has hidden a multitude of sins for millions of rented apartment/newly sold homes. It’s a pretty plain bathroom originally with no storage, no towel bars, no shower curtain rod, no window coverings. We knew we could add a little pizazz to this room.
Enter the following:
- a new color palatte that would wake me out of my morning daze–blue, orange, brown
- Some fun hip fabric that incorporated two of the three colors–like this funky mod bird motif fabric from Joel Dewberry, which I used to sprinkle my craft magic on to form the shape of a jaunty spruced up shower curtain and a matching curtain edged with orange bias tape.
- Vintage mid century teacups for storage bought off of eBay for $0.99 for the bunch and some nice orange prints bought off of Etsy
- IKEA medicine cabinets to make more room for our stuff
- Some relatively inexpensive towel bars and hooks from BB&B
- A small selection of the orange push button toys from my push-button toy collection peeking over the top of the medicine cabinets
Voila! New bathroom in record time and pretty cheap to boot–about $450 or so. The majority of that went to the IKEA medicine cabinets, but storage can be spendy at times. Sigh!
Now that I’m rocking the moby wrap, the Peach just snuggles in and passes out, so I can type while she’s on me sleeping. Hopefully that will mean more postings. Wish me luck!
