Spot's New Collar and Third Cross Stitch

Little Spot

Is not so little anymore.  In fact he grew to big for his collar.   I kept finding his grey break away collar around the house and when I went to put it back on him I realized it was a bit tight on his neck, so he was rubbing against thing's to get it off.  (Of course we only use break away collars on our cat's for safety.)  All our cat's are strictly indoor only, but Spot is the only one of the four to show any curiosity about the outside world.   He has gone out the door a few times and of course we always bring him back immediately, but I still feel he must wear a collar in case he escapes.  

15 years ago our now 16 year old cat Baby opened a screen in our Brooklyn basement apartment and was missing a week.  We papered Bay Ridge in fliers and miraculously found her but the experience has made me a maniac about preventing cat escapes.  (Interestingly it has also made Baby terrified of the outside world and she never even goes near the door.)   I never open windows, even with screen's, and I'm very careful about the door.  If a delivery person is coming the cat's get locked in a room.   I'm constantly checking on the cats, particularly, Spot, to make sure they are inside.  So the second I realized Spot's collar wasn't working I knew he needed another one.

Luckily I found a cute larger collar in the adorable etsy shop Furocious Kitty  and bonus!  It's a Star Trek collar, Spot is named after Commander Data's cat on Star Trek The Next Generation:

so this collar is perfect.   Spot and I both love this collar.  He has been wearing it three week's and hasn't tried to get it off yet.  

I love how the retro Star Trek fabric look's against his white fur and the live long and prosper tag is too cute.

I really recommend Furocious Kitty if you are in the market for a cat collar.  They have ton's of collar's with adorable charms in lot's of different themes Holidays, animals, food, etc.  I can already see myself purchasing some Holiday collars.  It's also nice that the shop caters exclusively to cats.  I think that's partly why the collar fits so well.   The collars are very reasonably prices, between $10 and $12, Spot's collar was $10 and the seller was very nice about answering my questions.  

In other news I finished my third geeky cross stitch.  This one is Fry and Leela from Futurama and I'm really happy with how it came out.   

I'm working on Twin Peak's themed cross stitch next.  

Second Cross Stitch Done and Mr. Tuvok Get's His Teeth Cleaned

I finished my second cross stitch.

It's Castiel from supernatural.  Though I messed up his eyes a bit.

In other news we took all 5 dogs to the vet so we could renew heart worm meds.  It was crazy

And Mr. Tuvok got his teeth cleaned.   We had made an appointment for Weasley to do the same but our vet said his teeth weren't that bad yet and we could wait a year.  I love my vet he's very honest and saved us 800 dollars.  He did say Tuvok had lots of tartar for a two year old dog and would be needing lots of dentals over his life time.  We expected that though since he is a toy poodle.  Tuvok isn't happy about it though.

Sci Fi Saturday-A Geeky Garland

My husband often teases me about being a bit obsessed with my favorite TV shows and perhaps caring a smidgen too much about what happens to fictional characters in a fictional world.  He's not wrong!  When I like something I tend to get a tad obsessed and I've always liked the sorts of television shows that inspire fanatical devotion (though I like to think I'm somewhere in the middle ground of fans, snug between the casual viewer and the fully costumed convention attendee).   While I was trying to decide what sort of Christmas garland to make for our mantle I got to think about the geeky valentines from geek crafts and decided to use photo shop to make a garland of Christmas cards from some of my favorite shows.

I'm not very good with crafting, to say the least, and I'm not much good at photo shop either but it was still very easy and I really like the end result.  To make the garland all you need is a cheapo Christmas foil garland that is not to thick, I  used a 2 dollar silver  garland from Target, card stock, a single hole puncher, scissors, photo shop, and a color printer:

To make a card all you do is select an image from the internet and drag it into I photo from there you can copy it into photo shop and then create a colorful background and add your desired text.  The geek crafts valentines post explains more about how to do it.   After making a card you just print it out on card stock and cut it out.  In making my cards I was greatly helped by earlier geeks who had created cards with my favorite characters, for example  all I had to do was google Star Trek Christmas to get a dizzying assortment of trekmas themed cards.  

 I made Trek cards from Kirk and Spock and Uhura and the Next Generation Crew

Supernatural cards from the Winchesters and Castiel

MST3K cards from Joel, Mike, and The Bots

 Twin Peaks cards from The Log Lady and Agent Cooper:

And cards from Mulder and Scully of the X Files and the Futurama Crew (the X Files art work was created by some other sci fi nerd I just copied it onto the card):
 

Once I had my cards I punched holes in the top of each card and strung them on my garland and taped it to my mantle.

 The whole project took less then an hour and my Christmas helpers napped in their PJs the entire time.