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So Bramble & Pumpkin are fast growing into full sized cats now, I thought I’d share some recent photos of them with you. Everyone likes cat photos, right?

We left out grill pan out to wash after cooking bacon on Sunday morning. Came back to it at lunch time to wash it, only to find some cheeky little bastard had discovered a taste for bacon grease… nice!

Hi guys, Halloween tomorrow! yay! I’ll post our outfits then, they’re 100% unfinished right now… uh… Also we need to carve some pumpkins. Yes yes. I think I’ll do a Mickey Mouse one :D

• Laser engraving at it’s best, amazing work.
• Smashing magazine’s showcase of textured web design.

• Replica print of the Professor’s wagon from Wizard of Oz. WANT!

• Tiered rainbow cake, how cute is this!

• Nerd glasses cross-stitch >.<

• Darling clementine design & illustration feature on yummy fresh, I really love their work… such a pretty vintage style with great colours.

• Witch hats for cats!! I really wanna dress the kittens up, but they won’t even keep collars on… I don’t think headgear would fair too well.

• HAAAAAAAAA!

• 105 cat pumpkin carvings :D:D

• Dead taun taun wedding cake. Fuck. This is amazing, they never do this kinda shit on Ace of Cakes. WHY? Anyway, hopefully it smelt/tasted better than the innards of a real taun taun. Did I just say ‘real’? Yes, yes I did. You should also know that I often come out with shit like ‘I sometimes like to imagine I’m being chased by an AT-AT, it makes me move with haste’. Luckily for you all Adam bares the brunt of these random outbursts.

Oh hi! how was your week?

• How would John McClane figure in a zombie apocalypse? what about Frances ‘baby’ Houseman? Yippee-kai-yay, motherfucker!

• Three teen-wolf moon t-shirt? oh hell yes.

• LED eyelashes, zing! from soomipark via craftzine

• This cushion is pretty, but I don’t think I’d throw £125 at it o.O

• These, definitely these. Amazing, right? I’d feel like Shackleton or something.

• This guy is a super genius. Look at those dunks! they’re all metal and shit! :O
• Are you gearing up for Halloween? We are! I’m going to start decorating the house this weekend, homemade decorations a-go-go! Heidi from My Paper Crane made some great window decorations.
• I’ve also been having lots of fun getting together small Christmas goodie bags for the orders made from finestimaginary.com and the folksy/etsy store. Hard to decide what to put in them though!!
• Sarah Von, from yesandyes.org, wrote this great guest post all about New Zealand. I think we might visit there for a few days in April on our way back from Australia (looking likely we’re going again, and I will go out of my way to see a freakin’ wild Kangaroo this time! God damnit!).

• This cat REALLY pissed his girlfriend off.

Sorry there was no weekly good stuff on Friday, I completely forgot :/ My bad. This was going to be included, but I’ll give it a separate post instead. First, here’s a photo of Pumpkin enjoying a box of screwed up newspaper.

And here is Bramble, looking rather concerned by the whole pumpkin-falling-asleep-in-a-box scandal.

We official became ‘cat people’ last Thursday, too. The kittens were getting way too big for their original scratching post, knocking it down constantly. They’ve also developed a love of climbing curtains (the breed that they’re half of are notorious tree climbers), so we decided it was time to get them a cat tree. Jesus, it’s so much bigger than we thought! It’s as tall as me! they love it, though, and have taken to sleeping on the ledges too.

And for some sad news, you might remember me saying that last weekend was super rubbish and shitty. Last sunday evening we got a call from Adam’s mum saying that their cat, Brodie Rattmaus, had been knocked over by a car and was found by the roadside. She had already passed away when they found her. I’m still pretty shocked and upset by this, it was the middle of the day and she was a large cat, I can’t grasp how someone wouldn’t have seen her. She’d also gone quite far from their house, the ironic thing is that behind their house are acres of long grass fields, but she went the other side to the road. So sad. I’ll miss that kitten, she was lovely.

Hey guys, hope this makes up for last week’s cold induced absence. This week’s been a good one, if a little too warm.

• If I were a paper princess, I’d like to live in this paper castle.
• I bought the calculator watch of dreams! It’s currently winging it’s way to me :D Wahoo!

• To say I really fucking want this would be an understatement. It would match our kitchen amazingly. omg.
• Doe Deere wrote an interesting article/interview about running your own business.

• Take a look at the diana multi pinhole camera, this looks amazing! Find it on the lomo website.
• This week on twitter, I’ve been mostly enjoying #moonfruit.

• I want those nikes this much. I’ve been playing with outfit ideas on polyvore. Note the watch of dreams, too.

• My flickr favourites seem to have a ridiculous amount of norwegian forest kittens.Tiem to start looking at other things again!
• Happy 4th of July weekend to all my American friends, we’re headed out for steaks tomorrow night in celebration!
• The FinestImaginary giveaway winner was announced on the lovely little deer blog, they went for the pink teapot necklace! For those of you who didn’t win, I’ll be posting a competition on the FinestImaginary website this weekend. You can subscribe to the blog over there to be the first to know! Also, use code ‘madeyoulook’ for a sweet saving at checkout :D