Friday Favourites

Hello!
I can't believe it's Friday
Where has the week gone?
And where has the weather gone? It's been freezing!

This doesn't sound too exciting, but it is for me
We bought Sisco a new brush and guess what?
We don't have any scratches!!
I actually think she may enjoy it
Amazing
I'm looking forward to having scratch free hands for once
haha

We re-watched Gremlins 2 the other night
Such a great film, although at the beginning I couldn't help from crying
Seeing Gizmo being bullied just makes me fall apart!
Apparently it's being remade
Not sure how I feel about it
In my opinion remakes are usually never as good as the original
I will go to watch it though

Ok, onto this weeks faves

I love this artists work

Can you tell who the kitties are?

This is amazing!

How cute is this painting?

Guacamole rice?
Yum!

Yep!

Check out the jumpers and tees on this site
Amazing

 

 

 

 

 

This dress is so cute!

I need this!

Have a great weekend!

Daily Cuteness - Isobel Kho Illustration

I just discovered this artist through twitter and I have to share!

I love her style

I can't resist E.T.

This illustration comes on a tote and a tee

Another few things to add to my wish list!

Seriously
Pugs, Unicorns and feisty pigeons?
Who could resist!

Find out more here

Cat Crazy Saturday

I just realised I haven't done one of these posts in ages!

How have I coped without my kitty fix?

Here are my loves of the week

These are very cute

How have I not seen this?

Amazing

I love this one so much!

I love this stool

This list of cats with thumbs being adorable is so cute!

Here are a few of my faves 

This is just purrfect

And here are a few photos from the past week

This is Paolo

He lives down the road from us

He is such a vocal cat, even more than Sisco

I know I have a Grumpy cat problem

But I couldn't resist these hair clips from Kelly Anne

And here is my bambino 

Give your fur babies a kiss from me

x

Friday Favourites

I am so glad it's Friday!
I'm looking forward to relaxing and just having some me time

Here are my faves of the week

This is so funny!

I know I always go on about Tard

But she is just so cute!

I love this brooch

I love themed restaurants

Even though they are usually pretty crappy

How amazing is this Alice in Wonderland one?

Betty Turbo always impresses me!

I was OBSESSED with Sharks when I was younger

Recently I encouraged (made) Paul watch them all with me

The last one is so bad! But I still kinda liked it

How amazing is this?!

A Jaws ship in the bottle!!!

I want one!

(And yes, all those exclamation marks were needed for this)

Talking of Sharks

I love this lemon juicer!

I'd like to think if I was a cat I'd look like this

I can't find the source of this image
But isn't this tattoo so beautiful?

I saw this on Pinterest
Isn't her hair amazing?

Have a fantastic weekend
x

A Very Cute Custom Order

I just want to share a project I've been working on

Illustrator Denise Bosler contacted me about making her work into plush

As soon as I saw them I jumped at the chance!

Aren't they cute?

She wanted 20 of each design so I got to work!

I was rudely interrupted by my eye problems 

But managed to get them all done and I'm really happy with the way they turned out

Here are the progress shots

And check out the little cake army!

Check out more of her work here 

I can see clearly now the blur has gone

(The title should be sung in the style of 'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash -ha!)

Hello!

I'm back in the blog world!

It's been so long since I've blogged, I've never been away so long

I really missed catching up with all my favourite blogs!

I had a little time out for a few reasons

One of them being a problem with my left eye

One morning I woke up with a blur in my eye, and over the day it seemed to get worse

Then I started to get black 'floaters'

I was so worried as I'd never had them before

I put it down to sewing too much (I had a big job on at the time), or being on the computer too much

It went on a few days and I was starting to get worried

I called my optician and explained and they said I should go straight to Moorfields Eye Hospital 

Arghhh!!

They said they were worried it could be a detached retina 

I was so worried and tried to play it down

'Oh, I'm sure it'll be fine. I'll make an appointment next week'

But the optician was adamant

'Claire, you really need to go to the hospital'

Gulp

People, don't google illnesses 

You will FREAK out!

But when I read online that retinal detachment can lead to permanently losing your vision I couldn't get to the tube fast enough!  
After a long wait and a lot of tests the doctor told me I didn't have it 

Without using medical jargon 
 Basically, they froze my eyeball to put a camera against it and then had to dilate my pupil before they could do the tests 
Gross 
I could hardly see and felt so strange 

The drops they used were bright yellow

So you can imagine I wasn't looking too attractive

I made Paul take a phone pic so I could see later what I looked like

Check out my pupils!

Oh yeah, I think it's safe to say I'm not bringing 'sexy back'

Apparently the doctor thought I had a blocked oil gland (attractive, huh?)

And floaters are common in short sighted people as you get older

(Thanks for that Doctor!)

I had to use drops and do eye massage techniques and now I'm on the mend

I can joke about it now, but I was so scared and very weepy

I've always been so terrified of anything happening to my eyes

But I have to say, the people at the Hospital were fantastic

The first man who 'froze' my eyeballs just tried to make me laugh the whole time

He was so nice and patient, even when I kept closing my eyes when he tried to put the drops in

(I can't help it, I hate them)

Hope my eyes didn't gross you out too much

x