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Apparently, the garage door need only be open for 4.78 seconds for The Heinous Cat to sneak inside unnoticed.

He is up to his dark and underhanded tricks again.

Last Saturday, I was bustling around getting some thing done outside that sorely needed attention and was in and out of the garage as well as our storage shed.

After going back in the house and  finding 38 more things that needed done all at once, I finally ran back out to the garage for something and there sat The Heinous Cat on top of a new bag of cat food, claws sunk in like he was going to rip that bag to shreds if someone didn’t get it open for him soon.

Once I got past the surprise of finding him in the garage and on top of the bag of food, it registered that he was sitting there lecturing me.

“Hey, You, come open this thing for me. What’s it take to get some food around this place anyway? I should turn you in for neglect. Are you listening to me? Let’s move it. Hungry cat. Come on. Open, open.”

I point out that there is a bowl of food waiting for him out back as well as cat food in a dish right there in the garage.

“It’s a little stale. I want the fresh stuff. Could you hurry it up?”

Yeah, those are the types of conversations the cat has with me. He also throws in lines like, “That big guy you let stay in the house with you. Yeah, he forget to feed me this morning. What’s up with that, anyway?”

The cat lies. A lot.

Captain Cavedweller feeds the obnoxious cat before he feeds himself breakfast. It’s part of their routine. Cat gets fed then human.

The Heinous Cat – he thinks he suffers so.

Anyone want a cat with a bad attitude and no courage?

She Who Has Learned to Tolerate the Cat

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I had big plans.

Big, wonderful plans to share photos and a brownie recipe with you for something so deliciously clever, it would just knock your socks off.

Halfway through the project, my camera battery died right along with the cleverness. It was a sad, sad death.

So, since I have no photos or clever projects to share with you today, I thought I’d post links to some wickedly delightful brownie recipes.

Enjoy!

From one of my favorite blogger’s on the planet – Salted Caramel Brownies from The Pioneer Woman.

Mint Brownies from Taste of Home. There is a restaurant here in town that makes these. I stay far away from said restaurant because I am unable to restrain myself from ordering one if I go there.

Fudgey King Arthur Flour Brownies from Two Peas & Their Pod. If you haven’t yet discovered their blog, you should really check it out.

Ooey Gooey Peanut Butter Fudge Brownies from My Name is Snickerdoodle – another of my favorite bloggers.

 

Turtle Brownies from The Curvy Carrot.

I promise to get my camera battery, my cleverness and my act together in time for a fun post next week!

Happy Friday, everyone!

She Who Really Wants a Brownie Now

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I don’t know what faulty gene in my DNA makes me love certain things as much as I do, but I have a thing for beautiful stationery and note cards.

Ask Captain Cavedweller. He’ll probably tell you the cupboard where I keep all my stationery supplies is a death trap of paper, boxes of note cards and fancy pens. Sad, but true.

One of my favorite, favorite brands of note cards is Carol’s Rose Garden.

They are high quality, affordable and completely lovely. The envelopes match the cards and most of the cards have some sort of embossing or fun design element.

Can’t you just picture writing a love note to your Valentine on this card?

And how sweet is this? A perfect Valentine’s  gift for a teacher, secretary, or special friend, especially at only $4.95.

 

Although her rose designs are my favorites, she has oodles to choose from including quilts, cats, teacups, pansies, hydrangeas and butterflies, to name a few.

She even has things like mousepads, scrapbooking kits and so much more.

If you like nice stationery and note cards but don’t want to spend a fortune, check out her designs.

She Who Saw Fourteen More Boxes of Cards She Wants!

 

 

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It all started a week before my birthday when a wonderful, sweet friend gave me a new purse.

Not just any purse, mind you, but a Miche Bag.

I’ll admit, I have avoided getting into the whole Miche Bag craze because I didn’t like the size of any of their handbags. Some were too small, others were too big. Then they came out with the perfect size-  the Demi Shell.

For those of you who have not yet been sucked in to the vortex of purse buying madness, here is how this works: Miche created a basic liner that is magnetically held inside a shell. For the fashion forward, this is fantastic because instead of changing purses and finding yourself in line at the grocery store without your wallet which is in your other purse, you just change out the outside shell and never have to worry about leaving something important behind.

Miche Bags come in a variety of sizes with handle and liner options and accessories.

So many, in fact, it can be mind boggling.

I was a bit skeptical at first, when my friend gave me this wonderful black handbag. I’m kind of picky when it comes to the purse I carry, but I loved it immediately. So much in fact,  before another week had passed, I was the owner of this shell.

It is a beautiful, shiny candy-apple red that I proudly carried through the entire holiday season. Evidently, I can be blamed for the madness spreading because when we went to visit family before Christmas my 79-year-old fashionista auntie was so taken with it, my uncle got her a demi bag with two shells for Christmas.

Yep, the addiction spreads like a disease.

For Christmas, my wonderful friend who started all this, gave me another shell.

A simple, silvery shell that I have discovered goes with everything. Literally, everything.

Then, as a final nail in my coffin, the shop manager where I drool over shells came to see me with a new spring shell.

I’ll be picking this one up later today…

Houston, we have most definitely got a problem.

She Who Must Stop Looking at Shells!

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