Other Fish to Fry......

This weekend we replaced the light fixtures and bought new faucets for our real house. Walter got the lights installed. They looked way too nice for the old bathrooms and were going to look doubly so after the installation of the faucets. So......I decided that it was time for a redecorating binge. I only got to what we call the "Cat's Bathroom". No. They don't have a private bathroom. That's just where the cat box is located. More than you wanted to know, I'm sure.

I bought a new rug, new towels and a new shower curtain. Then I actually did big girl work. I cleaned the bathroom and installed the new stuff. Then I decided that it needed a new curtain in the window. I whipped one up in about a half hour's time. Just plain white. Basic side hems, top and bottom channels. It looks pretty good in there now. Why am I telling you all of this non mini stuff??? Because it was taking way too much time away from minis, according to Tessie.

I stopped to eat lunch and check the e mail. When I first got on the computer, Tessie was behind the screen on the desk scratching around. I wondered what she was doing. I didn't have to wait long. She appeared at the bottom left corner of the screen and proceeded to march up and down.

She has decided that the best form of communication is protest signs. The "Will Work for a Gazebo!" sign was not an offer. It was a threat! You see, when she wants me to do something, the best way to get me to do it is to threaten to go to work I knew that she wasn't offering to work on the gazebo. That would be too much like manual labor. She stomped up and down in front of the screen for a few minutes and then threw the sign down and disappeared. I had a bad feeling......

Yup! She always threatens to help with the stitchery. She is bad at it and she knows that I will have to rip out everything that she does and start over. Sometimes the tangles are so bad that it takes hours.

She was sitting on the edge of the gazebo in question and stitching on the Dutch Tile Rug that I designed a while ago and have decided to finish for the kitchen of the Clockwork Cottage.

All I have left is the background in the center and she is "fixing it". I took it away from her and came back in here to finish the blog.

She announced that today is a lost cause and she is going to start earlier tomorrow.....Oh Goody!!! I went and hid the rug.

She is now sitting on a bench in front of Hubert's Haberdashery above me. She is drinking from a glass of what she calls "Fruit Bat Punch". I am not sure that it doesn't contain a bit of alcohol....She is singing show tunes. "My Favorite Things" is the one she likes best. She makes up the favorite things as she goes along. There are a lot of creepy cats, big black bats, gnarly gnats and pointy hats in her version. It can go on for hours.

I can't stand it anymore. You win Tessie. I am going to work on the gazebo now.

See you tomorrow.