Cat-TV

Welcome back!

Since we first bought our house 5 years ago we had an old TV as a"barn find". We often talked about what to do with it. We tried to find another good home for this buddy, but no one was interested in adopting this sweetie. So we decided that we will keep it and give it the chance for a totally other kind of life - as a cat tv.

This is what it looked like when we found it at the barn.

After hubby had removed all the electronic components I did a hard but successful job with sanding.

Then I painted everything new in dark brown and white.

Unfortunately we couldn't save the adjustment buttons. So we will have a look at the flea markets in the area, next time.

For the bottom I upholstered a chipboard with volume fleece and cord fabric.

To make it easier for the cats to adopt the new furniture, we laid in a blanket that has already been accepted by them.

Hope you all have an as compfy place as our cats to stay warm and cozy when autumn starts.

xo

Cat padding

Hi y'all,

exciting things happend at "Home is in the Heart" last week. We got new windows all over the house. Because of the fact the the house was build in 1900, it's always an adventure to make changes. You'll never know what you're expecting.
But everything went great and the windows were replaced within 3 days. Because we had no desire to do this task ourselves, we had an appointment with a carpenter.

Because of the new windows I've decided it's time to change the cat's padding at the windows sill. I bought some nice fleece blankets and bit of batting and sewed these cushions quick and easy. I've adjusted them the size of the window sill.

They're nice and soft and washable because of the one or two cat hair that will stick on. Next week I'll show you my lastest amigurumi.

                    

Jeans cat bed

Hi Folks,

like I told you last week, I was sewing for the kittens. Now that I'm done, I would like to show you what I've done.

Cats love to lie on our laps. So I have sewed the legs and waist of some old jeans, filled them up with fiber fill and folded them like sitting cross legged.

I was inspired by this pin over at pinterest 

The cat beds are tested and approved by my own kittens.

They can be purchased at 2nd Summerparty of Hand und Pfote Lohfelden e.V. Hope they will be well liked. 

See ya next week

                       

Kittens room upgrade - Part 2

Hello,

last week I told you about crafting for charity and that I'm doing sewing things for the kittens. Because I'm not done with it, I'll show you instead some other things we have done at the kittens room.

A few weeks ago we bought a very nice scratching post. It was only 48 €, so I couldn't resist.

The other thing is that we created a catwalk. We bought simple bed enclosure and installed them  below the ceiling.

In the end we mount a rope light that we had left over, so we have a light at night.

I'm looking forward to see ya next week.

                     

Charity chrocheting Part 3

Hi Y'all!

Sorry for being absent the last 2 weeks, but I was very busy with crocheting for the kittens again. Like last year I crocheted some Cat Beds for the 2nd Summerparty of Hand und Pfote Lohfelden e.V. 

This year my dear colleague Uta from Paper, Wool and Yarn joined us with crocheting. 

For the moment I'm doing some sewing activtiy for the kittens. I will show you soon.

       

Kittens room upgrade - Part 1

Hi Folks,

the last weekends we were busy to upgrade the kittens fresh air room we built last year. 

I asked Hubby to install 2 old tires onto the sill, so I can put bowls with cat fitting greenery into them.

The first try was very nice, but I think the cats liked it another way.  ;-)

I asked a friend who is a gardener what I can do to discourage the cats from digging. He told me I should try gravel. So I gave it another try and it works.

Another thing we built was a nestswing. Hubby brought an old bicycle rim to me.

I filled the indent with cotton and wrapped all with bandage to upholster. 

Then I cut 2 layers of fleece blanket into circles and cut them at the sides. I knotted the blankets onto the rim. At last Hubby and I attached 2 long ropes to hung up the swing.

I hope the cats will love the swing because no one told me that knotting a fleece blanket is that painful.

This was the first part of the kittens room upgrade. Hope to see ya next week again.

                   

Fresh air for the kittens

Hi Y'all!

2 weeks of holidays are over now. Tomorrow reality will be back and we have to go to work again. I told you to show what we've done in our holidays. We built a fresh air room for our kittens.

We had this never used, ugly balcony

and so we had the idea to modify it to a cats room. We removed the ugly balcony railings and started the rebuilding. Because we have to enlarge the base of the balcony (you have seen this in the sneak peek in my last post)

we used the posibility to remove a pillar and enlarge the roof of the back door porch, too.

We changed the back door area back in may.

If you missed the post you can read about here.

As every time we're building outside, it starts to rain and never stop until we're finished {umpf}. So you can have a look at our ability to build tents

 

In the end we won the battle against weather and material 

   

The cats like the new room and stay there often. Now we're looking for some furnishings.

Hope to see you soon

                

                    

New Family Member

Hi Y'all!

Today I'd like to introduce a new member of the homeisintheheart-family to you. Finally I got female enhancement. Nooo, not a kid - a cat!

Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome Tiger-Lilly!

She's about a year old and lives with us for now 2 weeks and I think she'll stay with us. The tomcats weren't really amused about her at first, because she's growling at them most of the time. But now they've learned to tolerate each other, with little exceptions. I hope it'll be even better. But for now I'm satisfied.

Because of the new family member I had to change one of our cat arts.

As you may noticed our favorite pet are cats. What's your favorite pet and why?

Thank you for stopping by
                 

               

Cat inspired Silhouette

Hi Y'all

Until I can show you the result of the renovation we're started, I'll show you some smaller things that have been created while playing around with my silhouette. They're all a bit cat-inspired.

We have two jars, filled with cat treats and I wanted to look them more according to their purpose.

  

Also I made two pictures for the living room because we wanted to have more art, that shows the love for our cats. I asked myself why to hang the pictures only the commonly way. So I decided to hang them up an other way.

40 x 40 cm on white primed canvas

40 x 40 cm on black primed canvas

Third was, to show everybody where's the cats corner/feeding place.

In this pic you can see our storage containers I created earlier on the blog.

Hope to see you soon

                                

Crocheting for Charity, again

Hi Y'all,

it was once again time for doin' something good to God's creatures. The other day there was a publication on facebook that Hand und Pfote Lohfelden e.V. searches Ladies and Gentleman who are able and willing to help with their crochet skills. (Do you know somebody who's crocheting the whole time???? - mwahahahahaha)

I asked what they wanted to crochet and what for. I was told that there will be a summer open air party on June, 21th where they wanted to sell some goodies for the welfare of the animals. 
Of course, I offered to help. They wanted to have pet beds like this:

Sorry, no source. I only get the picture and a translated instruction

So I go to work and soon I came up with these three mice:

There were 6 other women who crocheted, too. Keep fingers crossed the mice will make a lot of money for the poor babies.

This was my second charity-project. As you might remember, I already crocheted for charity last december.

Thank you for stopping by!
xoxo

First steps with my new silhouette cameo

Hi Everybody,

Again I was very busy. As you might remember I've got this one last year for my birthday! This year I wanted to have something completely different. I've got a few vouchers from amazon for my birthday. So I could by this Silhouette Cameo

For my first project I wanted to do something simple. As you know I  love my cats and I wanted to show. So I decided to do this design for my tablet case.

Because the first project went out really well, I thought I could start a little bit more difficult. So I did another catloving project for our living room.

The Heart is made from red wool

Since the weekend I have the hope and feeling that spring starts. Before I put this little guy down for the summer I thought I would be fun to make a quick shot together with the decoration for St. Patrick's Day.

Thanks for dropping in.