Crazy Cat Lady: History & Jewelry

I never even had a choice - I was born to be a cat lady.

My grandmother bred and showed siamese cats for decades. My sister and I used to work at the shows when we were kids. We'd go around and clean all the holding cages between judging rounds. A lot of the cats would get upset/stressed, and um, spray. But we didn't mind because they paid us a whole $10/day and we got to pet the nice ones!!! We were very cheap and enthusiatic labor.

My mom breeds siamese, but not for show. When I was young she bred apple-headed siamese. Now she breeds a cross between traditional siamese and apple-heads.

She is a crazy cat lady....as in she likes to wear kitty themed jewelery. I've been making necklaces, earrings, bracelets for a year or so now and she really wanted me to make her something with kitties. So she bought about 16 glass cat charms. She doesn't want to keep all to herself, she wants to give these trinkets to folks that take one of kitties home.

I accepted the challenge of multiple kitty-themed pieces and below are a portion of the results:

In all, I think I've made about 10 different items because some of the glass kittties were broke when my mom mailed them to me and things like earrings take up two cat heads. I'm mailing the completed project back to her this weekend and I'm going to bubble wrap them up.

Here is my cat, Borris aka bobo, demanding attention during all the mayhem.

I like to think that he appreciated my first 'collection' of jewelry.

-b-

Kitty Kat necklace

A necklace I saw over on byhillary's blog caught my eye a couple months ago http://www.byhillary.com/2009/05/tuesday-you-scallywag.html (scroll down to see her necklace)

She got it from orangyredink at Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6962737

After a long deliberation and way more thought than it warranted I finally contacted redorangyink about making a personalized tattoo necklace for me. This is what I gave her (which is not a tattoo that I actually have):

This is what she created for me (in super fast record time):

Awesome, huh? I debuted it this weekend and both Mr. Moto and a girlfriend agreed that it is totally completely me.

Win for etsy and me!

-b-

My first...

So. huh. This is my first attempt at blogging and really journaling since I was about 12 years old. I can't promise that I'll write more important or interesting prose since that time.


I'm not exactly sure how I want this blog to go...maybe I'll talk about fashiony things, maybe crafts? I like to make things with my hands, even I'm not really very skilled at it. I have some fun & sometimes getting interesting accessories out of it.


I should probably say something about myself, since this is first post and all. My name is Becca. I live in Houston with my husband Mr. Moto and a fair share of cats (4). I work as a biologist of sorts. It's a job: I show up and they pay me.


I like dorky things like museums and libraries. Here's the proof.


I like playing soccer and signing up for random sporting events. There have been triathlon years, running years, biking years, and soccer tournement years. Despite all that, I'm not actually in terrific shape - I just like running around like a kid outside.


I hope you'll stick with me.

-b-