It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Short stop motion animation I did of decorating our little TV room Christmas Tree:

Christmas Music Advent Calendar 2012 - Day 3

O Holy Night performed by Shay Carl and Mommy Tard

Instagram Christmas Challenge Days 2 & 3

I'm combing yesterday and today's pics. I didn't leave the house yesterday, so no change to get a window display picture.Day 2 - Window Display Day 3 - Television Special/Film

Christmas Music Advent Calendar 2012 - Day 2

O Come all ye Faithful song by Julia Nunes and friend.

Instagram Christmas Challenge Day 1 - Fairy/Christmas Lights

Last year I did a Daily Christmas Lights post as a project leading up to Christmas. I was going to do that again this year using Instagram, however I've come across Kayley Hyde's #kayleycountdown.

It's a bit more involved than just taking pics of lights, so I may or may not stick with it. 

We will see if I am able to remember to takes pictures of the other items on the correct days. I think I may resort back to Christmas lights on most days and throw in pictures of the other items here and there.

Day 1 is easy enough though Fairy/Christmas lights.

The day by day list:

1. Fairy/Christmas lights.
2. Holiday window display.
3. Holiday television special/film.
4. Starbucks Christmas cup.
5. Sweater.
6. Candle.
7. Advent calendar.
8. Christmas music.
9. Nutcracker.
10. Choose your own!
11. Mistletoe.
12. Friends.
13. Scarves. 
14. Snow.
15. Something from the 12 days of Christmas.
16. Santa.
17. Christmas socks.
18. Best decorations.
19. Fireplace.
20. Choose your own!
21. Christmas books.
22. Cookies. 
23. Gifts.
24. Christmas tree.
25. Family.

Christmas Music Advent Calendar 2012 - Day 1

It is once again that time of the year. Yup, it's the festive season. To celebrate I've decided to do the Christmas Music Advent Calendar once again.

I thought it was fitting that my YouTube subbox had this video created by Lush in it this morning. My favourite Carol is Carol of the Bells. My favourite skin care line is Lush.

Enjoy!

iPhone Photograph #198 - Burning Leaves

I hate that the summer is gone and that winter is so close,
but fall is a wonderful beautiful time.

iPhone Photographs #189-197 - Random

These aren't in any particular order.

Vintage Coke Painting/Sign

Sunset

Trees!

Yeah, I don't know.

Fall Sun.

Nice and warm in October

I'm walking.

It rained.

I guess fall really is here.

Video Catch Up!

Up, animal video time. Mostly cats, but, you know... I really should try to make videos about other things.

Lelu and the Bag of Catnip


Lelu is a (lazy) Gamer


I Caught a Deer ...


Mystic Enjoying the Back Deck


Mystic Drinks in Slomo


Slow Motion Humming Bird


Mommy CC


Lelu and the Ribbon


Patch and Tiny

iPhone Photographs #171-188 - The Summer

Lelu


Homemade Lemonade

Tks

Peggy's Cove Rocks

Peggy's Cove Lighthouse

Peggy's Cove Dock

Peggy's Cove

Chester, Nova Scotia

Chester, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg

Lunch at The Grand Banker Seafood Bar and Grill

Lunenburg

Sandy Feet at Hirtle Beach

Wet feet at Hirtle Beach

Found a little friend while walking

Shadows are fun

Looks and feels like fall

Avocado - iPhone Photograph #170

Let's see if it will sprout.

Red Nails – iPhone Photograph #169

My Favourite Smell – iPhone Photograph #168

My favourite scent arrives each July. The blossoms of the Linden tree.

Sun – iPhone Photograph #167

Summer Strawberries – iPhone Photograph #166

I look forward to the little wild strawberries every June.

The Best Soup I've Ever Had

I love French Onion soup.

Years ago I used to make it myself. However, somewhere along the way I got quite lazy when it came to cooking and I found making it to be a chore. So, if I wanted it I would have to order it in a restaurant. Problem was, no matter where I ordered it, it never quite lived up to my expectations. Well, that changed yesterday.

While in Windsor (Nova Scotia) Mom and I decided to eat lunch out. At first we weren't sure where to go, but as we were walking back to the car we walked past Lucky Italiano (Water Street). We've been meaning to go it for awhile, so this was the perfect opportunity.

The moment we walked in we were in love. The chalk board menus (I love chalk board menus), the small quaint size, the ornate metal (or metal like) ceiling, and the heavenly aroma of Italian food. It was right up our alley.

After going over the menu there were a few things we thought of ordering, but when we found out that the soup of the day was French Onion we were both sold. 

Now, there is nothing worse than getting a bowl of French Onion soup and there are barely any onions in it. Well, not a problem here. I swear there must have been close to two onions in this bowl! The broth was very rich tasting and flavoured perfectly. Instead of having croutons and covering the whole bowl in cheese they had a "giant crouton" topped with cheese. It was perfect.

As a treat we decided to get dessert and split the warm brownie. What can I say, it was a warm, chocolaty bit of indulgence. Well worth the splurge.

It was the best meal I have had out in a long time. I will be going back. I hope often.

If you ever find yourself in Windsor and are looking for a place to eat, try Lucky Italiano.

I'm Trying - Revlon File-n-Smooth Nail File and Julep Kylie Magnetic Nail Colour

June 7, 2012

Second video in a little series of videos I'm doing as (kind of) a review of the Julep
Nail Growth Revitalizing System. As well in this one I'm using the Revlon File-n-Smooth

Nail File and the Julep Kylie Magnetic Nail Polish.

I'm trying Julep Nail Growth Revitalizing System

June 3, 2012

This is the first video in a little series of videos I'm doing as (kind of) a review of the
Julep Nail Growth Revitalizing System. We'll see how it goes.

note:  I purchased these products with my own money for personal use.

Daily 5x5 #32 - Snowy Easter

April 7/8, 2012



Kind of a time-lapse of the snow that fell on Easter.

Daily 5x5 #31 - Time Outside

April 4, 2012



Clip 1 - My rain boots
Clip 2 - Pretty sky
Clip 3 - Walking on the brown spring grass
Clip 4 - Feral kitty Patch giving her chin a scratch
Clip 5 - The Linden tree still doesn't have leaves.

Daily 5x5 #30 - Pretty Day

April 3, 2012



Clip 1 - Back yard
Clip 2 - Feral kitty Tiny walking through the brush
Clip 3 - Daytime moon with plane flying by
Clip 4 - Feral kitty Patch running around
Clip 5 - Sun and trees

Daily 5x5 #29 - Out At Night

April 2, 2012



Clip 1 - Dark Sky
Clip 2 - Feral kitty Patch grooming herself
Clip 3 - Feral kitty Tiny under "home tree"
Clip 4 - Patch and Tiny waiting to be fed
Clip 5 - Moon with tree branches

Daily 5x5 #28 - In A Tree

April 1, 2012




Clip 1 - Moon and tree
Clip 2 - Feral kitty Patch in the same tree
Clip 3 - Climbing down
Clip 4 - Climbing down
Clip 5 - And she's out

Daily 5x5 #27 - Night Lights

March 31, 2012



1-5 - The night lights around the house.

Daily 5x5 #26 - Glide

March 30, 2012



Shots taken with my new table top glider.

Daily 5x5 #25 - It Snowed, I Stayed Inside

March 29, 2012




Clip 1 - Snow flakes
Clip 2 - Books
Clip 3 - Jewelry
Clip 4 - Plant
Clip 5 - Keyboard

Daily 5x5 #24 - Nice Day

March 28, 2012




Clip 1 - Tks sleeping on my bed
Clip 2 - Mystic getting some love
Clip 3 - Sky and sun though my car window
Clip 4 - Sky over the house
Clip 5 - Pathway

Daily 5x5 #23 - Low Light

March 27, 2012




Clip 1 - Ice cream with banana and crumpled ginger snap
Clip 2 - Fire
Clip 3 - Spinning camera
Clip 4 - Petting Tks
Clip 5 - Petting Tks

Daily 5x5 #22 - Spring Snow

March 26, 2012



Clip 1 - Foot steps in the snow
Clip 2 - Snow falling and tree branches
Clip 3 - Snow on the grass
Clip 4 - Snow falling on the rug on the clothes line
Clip 5 - The bad job I did on my nails

Daily 5x5 #21 - Oh Well

March 25, 2012

Clip 1 - Snow Again

Clip 2 - Hand made chandelier

Clip 3 - Plant and two jewelry boxes

Clip 4 - He-She getting scratched and purring

Clip 5 - He-She's back legs

Daily 5x5 #20 - Sunset in a Car

March 24, 2012



Clips 1 - 5 - The Sunset

Daily 5x5 #19 - Quiet

March 23, 2012




Just a quiet day.

Clip 1 - Lelu sitting in the window
Clip 2 - Cat toy on the floor
Clip 3 - Making toast
Clip 4 - Mystic getting into one of her beds
Clip 5 - Almost 11.30 pm

Daily 5x5 #18 - Walk in Windsor and Falmouth

March 22, 2012




A beautiful day. We went for a walk

Clip 1 - Path in Falmouth
Clip 2 - Walking on Gravel
Clip 3 - Swing
Clip 4 - Walking down stairs
Clip 5 - Water splashing against rocks

Daily 5x5 #17 - Spring Feels Like Summer

Such a beautiful day. 27°C here.

Clip 1 - Sparkly water
Clip 2 - Sun through the trees
Clip 3 - Wind Chimes
Clip 4 - Our abandoned train tracks
Clip 5 - Plane to somewhere

Daily 5x5 #16 - Hello Spring

Clip 1 - 23.6°C
Clip 2 - Spring Sky
Clip 3 - Spring Sky
Clip 4 - Early crocuses
Clip 5 - First sunset of spring

Daily 5x5 #13/14/15

Saturday


Another Saturday cat video - Pretty Girl Lelu

Clip 1 - Rolling on her back
Clip 2 - Looking serious by the window
Clip 3 - Just walking around
Clip 4 - On the couch
Clip 5 - Enjoying a scratch

Sunday


The only thing I shot on Sunday - Friendly

Clip 1 - Showing me some love
Clip 2 - Sniffing the camera
Clip 3 - Checking my leg
Clip 4 - Rub on the head
Clip 5 - Enjoying a scratch

Monday


Clip 1 - He-She grooming in the sun
Clip 2 - Doing dishes
Clip 3 - First fly of the season
Clip 4 - Windless Flag
Clip 5 - Plane to somewhere

Daily 5x5 #12 - I Did My Nails

It's badly lit and I did a horrible job, but I did my nails

Clip 1 - Badly chipping black polish
Clip 2 - Removing polish
Clip 3 - Filing nails
Clip 4 - Applying purple ELF polish
Clip 5 - Finished job

Daily 5x5 #11 - I don't want to go outside/I had to go outside

I did today's 5x5 in two parts:

Part 1:


Shot from the back door at 9 am

Clip 1 - Snow on the deck
Clip 2 - The back yard
Clip 3 - Snow falling through the trees
Clip 4 - The back yard
Clip 5 - Pot covered in snow

Part 2:


I had to go out side around 6 pm

Clip 1 - Snow on trees
Clip 2 - Snow on trees
Clip 3 - Snow on fence post
Clip 4 - Snow on pear tree
Clip 5 - Patch & Tiny eating under "home tree"

Daily 5x5 #10 - Winter is still here

Clip 1 - Snow on the deck
Clip 2 - Ugly winter boots and jogging pants
Clip 3 - Frozen drops on the pear tree
Clip 4 - Snow on a barn roof
Clip 5 - Snow on the house roof

Daily 5x5 #9 - Everything is still Brown

Clip 1 - Grass and mud
Clip 2 - Bare pear tree
Clip 3 - Rotting crab apples still on the tree
Clip 4 - Brown leave still attached to tree
Clip 5 - Blue sky behind bare trees

Daily 5x5 #8 - Almost Spring

Shots from the Windsor Waterfront

Clip 1 - Ice in lake pesaquid
Clip 2 - Seagulls on the ice
Clip 3 - Sun reflecting off the lake, and the road to Falmouth
Clip 4 - Gazebo
Clip 5 - Rocks and water

Daily 5x5 #7 - It's Dark

I didn't shot anything all day, so I shot some clips when I went outside after dark.
Clip 1 - The blinking light you can barley see is a plane
Clip 2 - Walking in the yard
Clip 3 - Neighbor's cat
Clip 4 - Walking down the driveway, with the cat
Clip 5 - The lights of some traffic

Daily 5x5 #6 - Caturday

An all cat day

Clip 1 - Big purr from He-She
Clip 2 - Sad Lelu
Clip 3 - Tks running around trying to figure out how to get outside
Clip 4 - Feral sister Patch and Tidy bonding under "home tree"
Clip 5 - A little sniff from Mystic

Daily 5x5 #5 - Life Today

Clip 1 - Morning rain
Clip 2 - Mystic drinking water
Clip 3 - Red cones
Clip 4 - I love hard wood floors
Clip 5 - Evening snack

Daily 5x5 #3 - Bright

Clip 1 - Sun coming through the front door, hitting the hall wall
Clip 2 - My new purse
Clip 3 - Sun coming through the blinds, hitting the floor
Clip 4 - Mystic and I bonding by a window
Clip 5 - Sun coming through the blinds, hitting the living room wall

Daily 5x5 #3 - Outside

Clip 1 - Sunrise through the front door
Clip 2 - Birds with bread piece, through window
Clip 3 - Feral Kitty Patch stretches
Clip 4 - Feral Kitties Patch and Tiny being fed
Clip 5 - Evening sky through tree branches

Daily 5x5 #2 - Just a Day

Clip 1 - Kitty Lelu
Clip 2 - Our wonderful woodstove
Clip 3 - Kitty He-She
Clip 4 - Microwave dinner
Clip 5 - Evening Tea

Daily 5x5 #1 - My Birthday

For awhile now I've been contemplating starting a new daily project. I considered starting the daily photos again; using Instagram this time as apposed to Daily Booth, as Daily Booth's failure to reliably work with my phone was a major part of my stopping the project. Instead I've decided to do a daily video project called a 5x5.

I discovered the "5x5" one day while I was going through the Vimeo Video School. It's a very simple video, just 5 clips, each 5 seconds long.

I'm sure my 25 second videos will get repetitive, like my daily photos - lots of clouds, lots of cats. But, it's a little bit of creativity to fit into each day.

And here is my first. Shot today, my birthday:



First off, sorry about my creeper breathing.

Clip 1 - The fresh snow that arrived over night, as seen from an upstairs window.
Clip 2 - Kitty Tks
Clip 3 - Tea and birthday cake
Clip 4 - Kitty Mystic sleeping
Clip 5 - Birthday candle

Lost then Found

The other day I was going through a folder on my computer that contains the images from a camera I had years ago. I had forgotten that I had shot some video with it. It's very low quality video, but still they were cute shots of the cats that I would like to keep. So, I have made each one into it's own little (very low quality) scrapbook type video:


Mystic Loves the Outside - September 25, 2004



He-She Wants a Treat (people food) - October 3, 2004



Sweet Little Dusty - June 5, 2005



Friendly is a Pretty Boy - July 30, 2005



Friendly Loves to Play with String - August 14, 2005



Mystic & Friendly Dislike Each Other - August 14, 2005



He-She is Crazy for the Catnip Toys - November 10, 2007

iKitties - Greydon, TC, Butter, Loucee

I made this video for the Hants County SPCA showing Little C's babies (the Weasley's Cousins) playing with my iPad.



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After the "Weasley" kitties were lovingly in the hands of the local branch of the SPCA, we thought there wouldn't be any more little kitties to worry about.

Tiny and Patch were spayed via a local TN/SR program. Tiny's two surviving kittens were in the hands of a local vet who raises abandoned kittens (Tiny would have nothing to do with them) and who is adamant about the need to have pets fixed. Patch's babies (our Weasleys) had been fixed while in our care before going to their foster home to be put up for adoption. The last one left to do (and the hardest to catch) was Little C, who was signed up for the next TN/SR day - just a few days away. We felt a sense of accomplishment, and were settling into the feeling of "we're done".

We were oh so wrong.

Just days before her appointment Little C showed up with her little brood. That first night we thought there were only 3, but later we learned there were four. We prayed that they were boys (easier and cheaper to fix), then thought they were all girls, then were surprised very late in the game to learn one actually was a boy.

So, that first night in late August we were stunned. We spent everyday getting close to them. Feeding them under their own "home tree", setting a video camera up to watch them while they spent time under the tree. By the end of September I was able to pick up the one we called "Loucee" (named for her bright orange fur that reminded us of the famous red head Lucille Ball, whose birthday is in August, the same month we discovered the new little fur babies. Also spelled the way Desi would call to Lucy when he would announce his arrival home).

We had one, now we had to get the rest. We kept trying to get the others the same way I caught Loucee, but they were too timid. We resorted to a live trap. I really doubted we would be able to catch them with the live trap. They would walk around the outside, but never go in. During this time I did catch 6-10 cats, both Tiny and Patch, and a whole lot of neighbor's cats - all of who stayed clear of the back yard for quite some time afterward.

Finally I got lucky and caught Greydon (He's a beautiful grey boy. The name just fits him). Unfortunately the trap didn't close completely and when I picked it up and stated carrying it he was able to get out.

The next day, I tried again and caught Butter (The colour of browned butter. Plus, she just makes your heart just melt). That night she did a lot of dainty and quite hissing eveytime I tried to get close to her. That night, both Greydon and TC climbed to the top of the roof of our two story garage. It was like they were looking for her. The next day I got lucky again and caught TC (Stands for Tiny C. Named after her mom Little C. Who in turn was named after her mom CC - they all look so similar)

That left pour Greydon alone. Unfortunately I wasn't able to try and catch him the next day as we had severe rain but the day after (Halloween) was the day, and finally we had all four.

By this time Loucee was already very comfortable with us and very happy with her surrogate mommy Tks (our teeny tiny girl who had helped raise the Weasley kitties). We gave the other three time to get used to being inside and then reintroduced Loucee to them along with Tks, whom after a very short time they all accepted as a surrogate mommy.

It's been a great few months with them. They loved to steal all of the cat toys, taking them to their room (so we call these guys the Thieves).

Last week all four were fixed and Greydon, Loucee and Butter all went to their foster homes. TC is still with us temporarily while we wait for their to be a spot in a foster home for her. Just like giving up the Weasley's it's been rough giving these guys up. If I could keep them all, I would.

Once I catch up on the Weasley Kitties videos I will be making more of the Thieve Kitties.

The Old Girl and the Old Boy

During the last 8 months or so I have spent most of my video shooting and editing time concentrating on either the nature around me or the homeless/feral kitties that we have been caring for and socializing in hopes that they can be adopted.

During this time I have unintentionally neglected the furbabies that are ours. I have done a few videos on our Chubby Girl Lelu and one on our Tiny Girl Tks. Up to ten days ago I had only done one on our Old Boy He-She and none on our Old Girl Mystic. And I have yet to do any on our Ginger Boy Friendly and our Dirty Boy Hey-Spike (I swear I've never met a cat who could as dirty as quickly as him).

I'll be attempting to fix that going forward. For now here are the recent videos I did about Mystic and He-She:

Mystic


He-She

Kitty Catch Up

Still slowly working my way through my videos of our ``Weasley`` kitties:

Kitten Brothers Play Fight



Thirty-One Days Old



Six Weeks Old

A Christmas Video on New Years Day

Due to getting very ill over the holidays I didn't get a chance to edit and upload this until now. It's an 8mm home video style video of our Christmas decorations, taken on Christmas Eve. It was taken with an iPad and I used iSupr8 app to give the footage the super8 look.

HAPPY 2012!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
2012 HERE WE COME!