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Richmond No Kill Shelter

chun — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:00:33 +0000

Remember the Secret Cat Haven? (Thank you for everyone who wanted to donate and show their support!) Their affiliated shelter RAPS (Richmond Animal Protection Society or RAPS) is having an open house from 12-3pm on 31 Dec 2010 to bring awareness and gather support. Location and contact information can be found here.

Ginko and Yoshi are adopted from RAPS, and we visit the shelter time to time to update them and also check out their cats :) Posted an entry at ginkoyoshi.com if you’re interested in more photos and a video of kittens at play~!

We’re extremely tempted to take this adorable tabby kitten home :P

Autumn bunny finding

chun — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:00:14 +0000

I noticed that there are bunnies out and about these days, the weather and temperature seems to be suitable for them I guess :) And guess what I think we might have come across the bunny which induced a lot of “AWWWWWWW” when it was a bebe!!!! I embedded the video below the photo ;3 Video was uploaded in March 12, 2009

Really hope it’s the same bunny! :)

The bunny below is really tame o_o It thought I had food (Unfortunately I don’t :P) and I touched the tip of it’s ear for a moment ^^;

Squirrels want food too ^^;

Bums away! :P

Mamachapp and Wind up Alpaca adventures were documented too ^^/

Threadless

chun — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:30:58 +0000

I had a splash of inspiration and decided to try to enter the Threadless challenge! :D

Pretty please vote for my design! ^O^!

Other mumbo jumbo — cats and miscellaneous life/food documentation…

Sorry I had been neglecting the blogs for a bit, had been pushing myself to finish up some sewing work ^^; below is one of the evenings where I actually wasn’t sewing lol

Yoshi trying to halp…

Sights of an evening walk :) Miscellaneous plants:

Poppies

Miscellaneous cats… Cat among shrubs… (His name is Henry I think)

Cat on fence…

Not sure if this is a stray or not, very friendly and funny :P it rammed into my leg twice…

Fantastic evening view

Lucky dog got an ice cream all for itself :D

Different days… Food purchased from food court in Yaohan… Under all the side dishes is fried rice noodles :P It fed me and husband, and was quite cheap?

Little bird

Ginko

Crime in progress :P

Thanks for looking! And please vote for me or help me spread the news! lol

Steveston adventures

chun — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:23 +0000

Documenting some little details :)

Lucky sighting of a ladybug on a wild daisy ^^

Day time (taken on 31 may) Fuwa fuwa clouds :3

Yo yoshi

Evening

Unknown flowers

(taken on 3 June)

Lucky sighting of a bird very close by :3 when I was taking photos of Taiga ^^;

So cute :P

Short random stuff

chun — Mon, 17 May 2010 02:00:51 +0000

Can’t remember stuff if I don’t post about it ^^;

I know I need to catch up on some art stuff and post them, but also want to keep track of what’s been going on, other than food abuse (LOL) ^^;

So… there was Mother’s day, husband got a machine for his mom (my mom in law ^^) It’s a Brother machine :3 I helped to show how to use it ^^;

Yoshi helping us do work…

Ginko taking afternoon nap…

After working hard, Yoshi takes a nap too…

Isshoni sleeping with Ginko and Yoshi ^^;

Yoyo and Ginko got visit from couple of my friends :D one of them being bluestarbaby ^o^/ Thanks again for coming by and for the wonderful photos and snack :3

Ah have to mention, finally had Arby’s Burger for the first time for lunch during a Doll meet ^^ (yes food pix coming) ^^;

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Ready?

Burger… I think next time if I ever have a chance to eat it I will try it without the processed cheese LOL

Evil curly fries :P

Potato croquette?

Okay moar later, I gotta make dinner ^^;;;

Paper Lamp shades are delicious

chun — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:00:15 +0000

Ginko thinks paper lampshades are yummy, and futher destroyed our lampshade in the living room ^^;

PS: I knew it was her because I saw her do it right in front of me :P

The first time it was torn was on the last day before we returned from a Japan trip. ^^; The lamp shade had a wire ring which was dragged to the bottom of the pole, tearing the lampshade when it happened :P At that time we didn’t know who did it ^^;

So we cut the paper part shorter and tape the bottom wire ring back as a temporary measure… Ginko probably damaged it again (I think I witnessed it probably, which is how I remember it was her ^^;), by tearing the wire off for the 2nd time ^^;

Finally last week this happened ^^; No way to cover that white bit on the pole there ^^;

We bought this fabric with the idea of replacing the lampshade, I finally got around doing it, nothing too fancy, I roughly hand stitched the fabric onto the wire rings at the top and bottom ^^

At night :P Looks darker than it is ^^;

Cute fabric :3 I cut out a bit for a dollfie dream peasant top ^^;

Naughty smug girl :P

Yoshi’s paw says Hai!

Recently updated my sewing desk a bit with moar Ribba ledges (shelves for my dolls and toys) with help of my husband :3 Having the blythes on the shelves make it easier to put more mess/stuff on the desk lol… Took photos for the record and for the otacool3 workspace submission (will update later on) ^^;

Hope to help husband take some for his submission (muhuhu) and yes… the mess on the desk is starting LOL, I am cutting some pieces for the coming updates ^^;

And one more thing, Mai had a chance to do a Doll show 28 after report :D she couldn’t get online the last 2 days in Tokyo ^^; So grateful that she was able to help me bring some sewing to the doll show XD kya!!

iDoodle?

chun — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:00:09 +0000

Phew, been more than a week since I posted any entry ^^;/ Below are a couple rough doodles I did with my finger on the husband’s new toy… Can you guess what it is? :P

So, husband went on a brief business trip, I think he’s really happy with his new toy :P

It took a while to get used to the gestures needed to draw on the ipad (yes he got it lol) , below is the first doodle I made lol!

Husband found an application called Sketchbook pro by Autodesk which is available as a simplified version for the ipad and got me to try it out ^^ below is my 2nd sketch.

My thoughts about it? It is pretty cool for a slightly more elaborate quick doodling with colours, but it’s pretty difficult to draw/paint with precision with our thick fingers lol! I felt that I took longer than I like to draw the 2nd sketch despite slowly getting used to the functions of the application. I know I “undo” a lot of times ^^;

I used photoshop to resize and insert the text into the images.

I think my favorite program for drawing with the computer to date is still Sai (What is Sai?) But then again I have not tried the full version of the actual Sketchbook pro just yet, so I can’t say if the latter is nicer to use than Sai.

Some non related cat photos :P

I had been busy preparing some items for my friend Mai (mailittlealien.com) to bring to the coming Doll Show, and also we had been busy hanging out with an out of town relative, so it’s all just been pretty crazy, hence the lack of posts in general.

There was a lot of food abuse (ugh) as well, I feel kinda sick looking at food photos now (despite a lot of them are yummy), so none of that until later I think ^^;

Yoshi on the other hand cannot get enough of treats (we gave him a few already before these photos :P)

He was so anxious that he actually nipped my fingers a few times ^^;

For some reason we haven’t taken too much photos of this variety of cherry(?) blossoms this year, but partly also due to that the leaves already came out way ahead likely due to the warm ish weather ^^;

Thanks for staying with us :) Hope everyone’s having a nice week!

LOL cats

chun — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:00:54 +0000

Sorry, been busy ^^; will probably be busy for a while, but have to share these before I forget ^^; be warned tho, I couldn’t stop yawning when I edited these photos ^^;

Yoshi is the King of yawns…

Just when you think he couldn’t open wider…

Princess Ginko got infected too…

LOL

Laughing or yawning?

Seems that she passed it back to Yoshi :P

By now I lost count how many times Yoshi yawned ^^;;

Insert lip smacking sounds

Yawning is so tireding! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Chinka cosplay

chun — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:00:37 +0000

Can this possibly be the first Chinka cosplay? Or should it be crossplay since Ginko (our cat) is actually a girl? ^^; Compare with Hibuse (the cat character in Chinka)

The furkids Ginko (Grey girl) and Yoshi (Tabby boy) has been shedding a lot, so I collected a bunch of their fur, not sure what to do… then we heard about Chinka from Danny…

We managed to get Ginko to cooperate for some photos… I used water soluble glue to stick it on Ginko when she was napping (shhh)

I was gonna make up a story about how a box of Hibuse like kitty arrived at our doorstep but you peeps probably won’t believe me anyways…

Unfortunately during the take over of the box by Yoshi, he damaged Ginko’s splendid ahoge in the process ;_;

Yoshi: Om nom nom…

Here’s a couple omake Yoshi shots :P

LOL

Kittens need homes (Singapore based)

chun — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:00:05 +0000

Heart breaking story of Ema here ;_; (photos of Ema borrowed from FSC’s flickr)

FSC is a long time friend of mine, who used to be a quiet shy being who loves drawing beyond anyone I ever know. Now a serious cat lover and travelling artist, FSC’s family already have a few cats in their home — all rescued :3

I would imagine they would want to keep Ema, but maybe they’re reaching a limit to be able to let their cats live comfortably without brawls and stress to the cats ^^;

Not too long ago after I heard about Ema the kitty, I saw a flickr friend looking for homes for some rescued kittens as well, also based in Singapore.

Our Ginko and Yoshi were from a no-kill shelter, we still visit the shelter time to time and there’s always plenty of cats, waiting to find their “forever home”. I think people in general need to be aware of the trap nueter release method to keep feral cat population under control, despite that kittens/cats are so cute ^^;

photo below taken at shelter sometime last year, when it’s kitten season ^^; I remember these adorable beans were newly rescued and were so painfully adorable!

I think Singapore has a lot of stray cats, and sometimes the government cull the cats =_= but the root of the problem is still being that the strays are generally not neutered or spayed so they will keep multiplying. I hear that there are cat lovers who trap the cats and release them after neutering, but I would imagine it being difficult to do it without assistance/awareness.