I DO...WILLIAM AND KATE

A royal love story...
beautiful
elegant

traditional

humble

serene

with this ring

I thee wed

thank you my dear friend Jasper Ginger for sharing your royal wedding celebration with the world...I was proud to be your special guest...the Devon clotted creme fudge sweets you sent us today are so wonderful, a melt in your mouth taste of England. We congratulate your country on this happy electric event. We love the bride's dress...it is a beautiful Grace Kelly style gown and demure bouquet of lily of the valley

SWEET PRALINE

SWEET PRALINE my dear precious friend has gone off with the rainbow cat...escorted by flower fairies and butterflies...up into the cat heavens filled with our beloveds who have gone on before us...she goes to purrpare a place for us one day. We are sad for the Praline shaped hole she leaves in our hearts and purrrrr to comfort her mommy Paula during this time of loss. Mommy chose the picture of Praline looking out the window as her favorite...

CONTENTMENT...IN LEAVENWORTH

THIS IS
A WONDERFUL
WARM COZY
SPOT FOR A NAP...

join us this week for more holiday pictures...

THE TOMB CAN NOT HOLD HIM...HAPPY EASTER!

The cozy cottage wishes you a most wonderous EASTER...on our knees we are redemmed...we celebrate the empty tomb...JESUS IS ALIVE!

THE TOMB CAN NOT HOLD HIM...
DEATH CAN NOT KEEP HIM...HE IS ALIVE!

I HOPE THEY ARE CATNIP EGGS!

A LEAVENWORTH TUESDAY...

Oh it was such a nice warm sunny day here in Leavenworth...we all walked around and enjoyed the weather. Then the boys got hungry...so we stopped in to the bratwurst garden and ate four curry wursts...yummy yummy...

This is my favorite spot so far...in front of the nice warm fireplace...

My Lapdaddy and me on his special day...it was his birthday and wedding anniversary to mommy. It was his annibirthary! I am happy that I got to come along and be with my boys...I hope you are having a wonderful week...

CAT ART SUNDAY...AND GOING ON HOLIDAY...

This beautiful card came to us from SHELL'S mommy with one of our auction wins that she had donated... A thank you was penned inside...it made us cry... As an artist myself, I must say that I adore this simple poignant card with it's soft watercolor wash. It is filled with emotion for me when I look upon it. The tiny kitty waiting at the big window...waiting waiting waiting...just as SHELL did for so long. We must try to live in those ordinary tiny moments that come along each day...moments others are too busy to even notice. That little bird singing in the tree...the tulips nodding in the windy rain...watching a car hurry down the road carrying a loved one home to someone waiting for them....

Speaking of cars and loved ones...I get to go with the beans and my best friend Cole to Leavenworth for this week! Mommy is homesick again and needs her portion of Germany...if we have internets there, we will try to post. Please do not forget us until we return, we will miss you all.

LIVING WITH CAT FUR AT THE COZY COTTAGE...

I am a very purrrttty furrrrry girl!This is where I spend most of my time...on my blanket at the foot of the bed. There is a king size sheet draped over the down duvet to protect it from the many furs...it is a snap to wash up! Sometimes mommy just vacuums it! Lapdaddy's favorite chair has a quilted twin mattress pad cover over it and a twin bedskirt. The chair is leather and this works quite well and stays in place...it is very shabby chic looking...

On the dining room bench, we have some thick vinyl to protect it from fur and sharp claws...in the olden days, they called this treatment oil cloth..we have it on our dinner table also...I tend to jump up on it sometimes...yes, I hear you...bad kitty.

Another twin bed skirt covers a chair in the bedroom...

A pretty old bedspread covers the loveseat..it makes it soft and cozy and again is a snap to wash up nice and fresh...it is also good to pull down around you when you want to take a warm nappy!

WELCOME TO MY HAIRY PUMPKIN BLANKET FORT...

This is shabby chic at it's finest...me camped out on mommies best sofa! Come back Friday and we will give you some shabby chic tips to help you live with cat fur in your house!

MY TOY...

Who can see what I am looking at?

Ahhha...I finally got you into my cozy nest! Do you like my bed that lapdaddy built for me? He spoils me...today he told mommy that I was a nice cool cat...

CAT ART SUNDAY...

Welcome to cat art Sunday...To go along with the theme of the month...we have April showers with Laurel Burch's famouse cats. The remind me of my first date with Mickey...he came to visit me in the summer of 2007, and we had a walkabout in the cottage garden...how wonderful to have those memories...I treasure them so in my tiny heart...

THE WALKABOUT...

The art mommy made below is another Laurel Burch kitty...we call it Spirit Cats in honor of all those beloved kitties who we let run off to the rainbow bridge...

THE SPIRIT CATS...

We wish you a wonderful Sunday...it was so good to have Cole here with me...I followed him all around and we snuggled so much...nothing can be better than being close to the ones you love...

MY FANCY WATERING HOLE...

This is what I do first before I take a nice long cool drink in my crystal water bowl....I dunk my paws into the water to make sure it is just right...plus a lady cat needs clean paws...so I guess this is my paw bowl! Next I put my nose close to the water and smell it...

Then it is time to drink...

This is going to be a wonderful weekend...guess who is coming to visit?

My best grandkidbean COLE! Oh yes...I will get lots of loving...I can't wait!

I wish you all a great weekend too surrounded by all you hold dear....

WHITE CAT WORDLESS WEDNESDAY...

BLISSFULNESS...

listen...Lapdaddy is coming home! let the happy time begin at the cozy cottage!

CHAT NOIR...OPPPPS MY MISTAKE...

CHAT NOIR...

Sorry to post on an off day, but Polyvore insists I publish each set I make to Blogger unless I unclick the box...this time I forgot...so here it is...it already has a comment so it would be unpolite to delete the post...it has a little black kitty in it so it is appropriate for my blog...but Miss Peach says I should be more careful because she is still in mourning for her beloved Mickey.

OF ALL THE NERVE!!

It was the cable guy!!! He came busting through the kitchen while I was up on the counter waiting for someone to turn on the fawcet...he looked at me and yelled, "Wow what's the matter with that cat, is it anorexic or something?" What an silly man...doesn't he know that I am a purebreed Devon Rex, guess not.... I know I am an old scrawny cat of 5 pounds...I have always been tiny but I am not anorexic! I eat...if I were bigger...I would have a cable guy for a snack! For now...back under the pumpkin blanket to lick my frazzled furs and calm down...of all the nerve! Mommy always taught me to say that if you do not have anything nice to say, do not say anything at all...are ya listening cable guy?

CAT ART SUNDAY...

TEARS FOR SHELL...

Psalm 56:8 reads: Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? I am sure SHELL has her name written in God's book of remembrances for kitties...as sure as I am that no bottle is big enough to hold the tears we have shed for her loss...

Today is a nice spring day and I am happy sleeping under my pumpkin blanket...tomorrow I will tell what a very rude person said about how I look...of all the nerve...but for today I wish you wonderful moments filled with love and peach ...OK that was a typo...but I will leave it because peaches are sweet...PEACE OUT...

THE COLORS OF FURRRRENDSHIP...

THE COLORS OF FURRRRENDSHIP... by Augusta Vindelicorum on Polyvore.com

For SHELL...a brave kitty who knew ture comfort and love for one month of her long life. It is not the years in your life that matter but the life in your years...even if it is only meant to be one month. We all loved you with all of our hearts and you will never be forgotten...you mattered to us and we are touched by your story... now rest easy in the laps of angels sweet precious tiny girl...

WHO LOVE'S YA BABY?

Today is a very lovey dovey kind of a day at the cozy cottage. My Lapdaddy came home early from work and sat down with his cuppa coffee. That is all it took for me to wake up and smell the coffee. I added some sugar to his to sweeten the moment... I thank you for your wonderful friendships that sweeten my moments...so many of my friends are ill and I purr for them with all my tiny heart...dear Praline and Jasper are especially dear to me... treasure each moment...