Lots of stuff!

I have so many things flitting around in my head to tell you about and pictures to show you!

First up!

Just when you think you have seen everything, you haven't.  Check this out:  We were driving through a parking lot and saw this truck with shrimp decals on the back window and then saw the driver's door.

In case it wasn't clear enough, I got a much closer view below.

THE SHRIMP PIMP!  It's a Shrimp Pimp-mobile!!

When's the last time you saw one of those?  I'm gonna go out on a limb and say probably never.  Ha!

And now, let me share with you my latest project.  Do you remember a long while back I showed you pictures of the cute trivets I was going to make when I got enough metal bottle caps saved up?  Well, after having some family members here for a good long visit we accumulated a great supply of bottle caps.  Yay!!

Here is the little tub I have been collecting the caps in.  A varying assortment of beer, ginger beer, root beer and I guess some non-beer caps!

Next to the bottle caps you will see that I am using just plain #10 cotton crochet thread.  I have scads and scads of that stuff.  Small amounts of about every color under the sun leftover from other projects.  Just the right thing to use on this and turn a leftover bit of thread and a rescued-from-the-garbage bottle cap into something useful and cute as hell!

As I make up the crochet-covered caps I am storing them in a ziplock bag while I accumulate enough to put them together in some sort of cute trivet design.

And here are the first two I have finished!  They are going to be my sister-in-law's birthday present. She has the cutest 1950's all original kitchen in shades of blue and yellow.  It is bright, sunny and just as cute as it can be.  I wanted to be sure to take photos of them before I give them to her.  Shhh, don't tell her!

Aren't they awesome?  I am so excited to get even more made!  I have loads of cotton thread.  Certainly enough to make hundreds of trivets.  It's just the bottle caps that I have to keep stocked up on.  I have been picking them up off the street and in parking lots too.  Any that I find that aren't flattened out or too bent are snagged and taken home and washed.

If you look closely at the photos, you can kind of make out that there are different color caps underneath the thread.  I gotta tell you, this is shaping up to be one of my favorite projects!

And if that wasn't enough cuteness already?

I have some pics of the little mama kitty and the one remaining baby kitty that we have been fostering. The little boy kitten has already gone to his forever home and has been given the moniker of Ollie.  Very cute.

You'll see what I mean when I have been saying that the little mama kitty didn't appear to be any more than 6 to 8 months when she gave birth.  She had these babies on July 4th, so they have been with us for 7 weeks today.  And this is probably their last week with us (and together) as they will each be making their way to their respective new homes.  Awwww.

Check them out:

See, you probably thought this was the baby because she is so small, but nope.  That's the tiny mama!

Here's the teensy baby kitty hiding under the table so that I won't take her picture and steal her soul or whatever it is that baby kitties might think!

There she is again!  Hiding under a chair.

And here's the mama kitty with her savior and rescuer.  Isn't she precious?  Look at those stripes!

And here's the baby.  Awwwww!

Look at that little bundle of trouble!

And here's one more of the mama kitty sitting on a foot stool looking up at me. What a pretty, dainty little girl.