Our beloved kitty is missing

please say a prayer - I have two very sad children (and 2 sad parents) in our house!

(update - silly bugger was hiding in the garage the entire time while we all went to bed scared out of our wits!) Crazy cat - we love you!

My package came today - new planner/agenda

from a great lady on etsy! http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=36307 (Mrs. Kwitty's Cottage)

It's sooooooooooooooo pretty and so me!!

Hungry?

well I know I was after reading this blog... check out the recipe for homemade pop-tarts - or the banana cookies look delish too - always looking for recipes to use up my brown bananas!

http://asweetfantasy.blogspot.com/

Cool digital scrapbooking site!

http://www.scrapblog.com/
You HAVE to check it out! It's like doodling and stickers and photo fun ALL online!! And you can link it to your facebook, myspace, photobucket, flickr, etc. It's SUPER fun!!!

oh the weather outside is frightful

and comfort food is delightful...

and my morning didn't quite start out so great... but I thought I'd turn it around and have something warm that sticks to my bones - yup - oatmeal. I LOVE oatmeal - esp. on cold grey days... and I know my neighbourhood Starbucks is serving some and even though it's pricey - it's darn good! And you can get dried fruit, nuts and brown sugar to put on it. http://www.starbucks.com/retail/nutrition_freshfood.asp
I think I'm going to make an effort to make my own in my crockpot this week - and see if I can get the kids to eat it - would be so good for them to have something that sticks to their bones!
http://healthycooking.suite101.com/article.cfm/crockpot_oatmeal_recipe
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pumpkin-Oatmeal/Detail.aspx

Blythe dolls - creepy or cool?

who can teach me about Blythe Dolls? I became hooked on them from etsy.com (one of my fav sites)... with all their handmade dresses for these big head/eye dolls...
The dolls are SO expensive ... and at first I found them creepy but now they have grown on me - and I want one!! I looked on ebay and they are very expensive but I don't know where to begin.
http://www.thisisblythe.com/
http://flickr.com/photos/carolichan/466476504/

so after church on Sunday- I trekked over to the next city to go to Bath and Body Works. As a Canadian I am THRILLED that we are getting a sprinkling of these stores in Ontario. One not far from me - even better! Sadly - even though I did read this and it didn't register with me ... it opens Monday LOL! Oh well - that's ok too.

So since we were there - me and my mini-me went to Starbucks to get a coffee for me and a hot chocolate for her... and share a pumpkin scone (MMM)... we admired the school supplies that are all over Chapters... journals with covers as beautiful as fabric ... pens... funky paper clips - you name it!

And of course Jessie cannot walk by the stuffed animals without falling in love with them all - telling me how they should join our family of stuffed animals (which is HUGE by the way). Well I am a big kid - I love stuffies just as much - I have a bunny from Build a Bear and whole other collections of bunnies (my fav). Jess's 6 cabbage patch dolls, who knows how many care bears, and 23 webkinz are mostly because of me I'm sure.

So two things caught my eye - one was a stuffed hedgehog - I really liked him and then there was a bunny in a dress. She reminded me of a bunny I have had since I was little - in a dress my grandma made - baby and twobaby (a bear) sit proudly on top of Jess's shelves ... lovingly worn out - by years and years of adoration.

I talked myself out of the stuffies and walked to get my coffee but couldn't get my mind of the bunny. So after our treats we walked back to the stuffed animals and saw her there - different from all the others and upon closer inspection - saw that she was 50% off (meant to be?). So we happily bought her and Jess named her Bunnalina - the newest addition to our family.