happy Christmas ...

... from the us4 Cats crew.

warm snuggles & lights ...

pengy & stripes cozied up ...




junior overlooking (after swatting at CB ornament) completion of our Mr. Charles Brown Tree, 2010.

cuddle

lucky is our compact lap cat; easily fitting snuggled into only the bend of my arm, she exerts her ragdoll-cat like flexible lil kitty heater goodness all in one. not only does she warm my lap, but moreso, my heart !

our caroling santa cat

this is our singing holiday cat; push his tummy and he ' meow, meow, meooows ' to the theme of a christmas carol. (you will need to turn your volume on to hear him).

here, Pengy investigates ...


and here, well, she rivals it, putting the bitey on the booty...


finally, after inability to get it to shut up, Pengy says 'ah, enough with you' .

And so, caroling kitty is defeated & put back in his safe spot.
The cats are not too amused that something is singing in their house without moving its mouth; yet mom brings him out every year because she thinks our reaction to this thing is SO cute. Yeh, for about 5 seconds maybe, then we cats are just annoyed (secretly we like that it cannot move so we always get the upper paw).

: )


(please ignore anonymous optional video clips at videos end; i do not know where they come from? & noticed a bad word on one - my first time using photobucket for video uploading; so not too familiar with its operation).

fund raiser update

update:(12/16) all bags of Tarts SOLD ! : )



out of the 11 bags, we have just 1 bag left!... at the 1/2 discount to any of the Cb'ers. if one of you wants to order the final bag, email me.

not having as big a turnout selling online this time around we decided, at our original price, to give our local community a try today & my husband sold 7 for us :) He is my awesome rock; his devotion to our adoption & fund raiser warms up my heart entirely .

original post link.

we have a special offer at Us4 Cats /updated ...

(12/15 update: 1 bag left) !!

This is one photo of our adoption Fund Raiser Holiday Candle PIE Tarts.
This particular Pie Tart is Christmas Spice scented.

Background: I made 44 Tarts, prepared them in Crafty bags and per its' suggestion of a local organization here in town, we brought them over for sale. Today we came to find out after all that items could not be displayed; so my Tarts are only located in an office room; not very visible for customers, huh. Turns out also that the employees who work there do not have candle warmers... even though Tarts can be put upon the stove and set to low for the same affect. Same disbursement of scent achieved. O well, anyhow, after all the effort put into making 11 bags of Holiday scented Pie Tarts, I am left w/ 10 bags. Yes, 1 did sell :)

So the purpose of this post is to offer a Holiday discount for any member of the CatBlogosphere exclusively. I have 10 bags to sell. I am selling them for 6.oo! (originally they sell for 12.oo).
I am also taking 1/2 off the shipping making it only 2.50 (instead of the original 5.oo)

TOTAL w/ ship will be only 8.50; usually they sell for 17.oo total.

You will receive 4 Pie Tarts. I usually sell 3 per bag.

These Fund Raiser Holiday Scents include Christmas Spice, Home Sweet Home, and Christmas Tree.

I have decided to do this for two reasons:
1) It feels right to offer a good deal during the Holidays
2) I have 10 bags to sell, and would prefer to sell since the sole intention goes toward our Fund Raiser efforts. If I don't they will become gifts for family members.



This is a photo of my basket of the bags of Tarts :)
Christmas Spice Scent are red, Home Sweet Home Scent are cream and Christmas Tree Scent are green. All of the Pie Tarts have pie topping appeal upon the tops of them to resemble little pies.

If anyone from the CB is interested, please let me know. I feel good offering these 1/2 off and I would rather offer this discount to our CB cat family for our adoption Fund Raiser than to just give them out as gifts to those who may not know ways to use a candle Tart :) As mentioned, if you do not have a candle warmer or a tealite warmer, Tarts can be traditionally dropped into a pot upon the stove set to low.

recap: 8.50 total cost;
you will receive 4 Holiday Tarts.
shipping included in this total.

Fanks!

a tree to cuddle under ....

so, mom worked all nite & has almost completed our Charles B. tree:
before lights,

cuddled up kitty,

kitty & lights,


snoopy,

lit up,

that classic single red bulb.

two things left to complete the tree:

three wood Peanuts ornaments we won via ebay; waiting to arrive via mailbox. okay so those were not on the original CB tree, but it is 2010 and this is our version; and you gotta have ole Charlie somewhere on the tree afterall. and we are adding one final lit branch.

welcome to our home Sir Brown Christmas tree;
our kitties already Love you!

The Before photos, link here .

making our tree & crib climbing...

today we began creating our first very own Charlie Brown cmas tree:

pengy scoping out the goods; we used a previously cut log & branch from our backyard,

before photo; our tree stump and branch,

getting down to business; daddy creating branch inset w/ his drill,

side view,


and, top view,
and, UM, kitty view,

kitty approved and climbable might i add.

i'm thinking by tomorrow our blog will post the finished product; lights, the single red bulb, and some extra Christmas Kraft warmness taking it back to the classic Charlie Brown winter scene.

this tree idea came upon me one nite and I could not shake it... it was the tree we were to create; our own warm tradition, 2010. i knew with my husband we could make it happen. thanks babe!



we were blessed to come across a baby crib. it has been in my husbands family for generations. he slept within this very crib. today we brought it inside. we love how it exerts the way cribs should feel; warm, cozy, beautiful simple structure. in the near future we will be painting it a warm color.

our cat, pengy, found it very interesting. used it as her ladder and climbed right up to inspect. once the mattress is in, i foresee this crib being the cozy bed for 4 cats before their brother comes home.

cmas 2009 flash-back

our june-bug nuggled within her cmas bag-bed.

we are making our own Charlie Brown Christmas Tree this year ... with the single bulb hanging from the arching branch; hm, invisioning our 4 cats competing for the score of that single bulb from branch to floor to toy.

hoping to capture some great photos of our crew, cmas 2010 !

window view

with my self-made side window, which i am darn proud of might i add, kitchen guard duty was my helping role as mom prepared our tray of the Fundraiser items last nite;

product safe-n-sound, Cat assured; view link.

twig arms Clothman

our cats forethought:

' okay, do we sniff it or just stare? '

the afterthought:

' (sigh) we approve & snowman-dude can stay but just for the Holidays & IF we get to chew the twig arms, okay ' .

my link for How To make .

a special thank u

We just wanted to send out a special thank you to :

Furkidsmom
and
Angel & Kirby

... for your Candle and Tart orders this month benefiting our fundraiser.
As a special thank you we will be including a gift of my Home Made Room Spray, scented to match your orders.

Thank you both.

kitchens open

First photo of our Fund Raiser Candle Pies!
I love how they turned out and are SO much fun to make.

These are still for sale if interested.
: Link to order : Apple Cinnamon Scented.

My cat tried to nibble on the Pie. LOL!


And, the original Holiday Scented Tarts are available;same Link as above.

Cats play Patty Cake

How Sweet!



shared via youtube.

infant girl clothes... gift ideas?

listed now on craigslist. email me for link if interested.

As we will now be adopting a little Boy :) these little Girl clothes are up for grabs. There is a Huge Lot of 10. Adorable stuff Ladies!!