Current Sources of Fabulous-ness

A few things which are currently filling my world with light and happiness:

1.    Straight in at number one is the Twilight saga which has been occupying at least 75% of my brain at any given time since I first started to read it while we were on holiday – Alistair couldn’t understand why I suddenly had no interest in leaving the hotel whatsoever. I love stories that continue over multiple books anyway, but Twilight had taken it to a whole new level. I’m totally captivated by the beautiful love story surrounded by dark themes and gothic imagery, so much so that I found myself looking at Forks on Google Streetview to see if it might be a good place to go on our next holiday, although I was forced to conclude probably not. Needless to say, I’m completely in love with Edward Cullen and I can’t wait to see the film of New Moon which is out on the 20th November.

2.    The second thing I’m currently obsessed with is the Crabtree and Evelyn home fragrance in Noel which is only available for a few months of the year and as soon as I catch sight of the little red boxes on the shelf (I get the oil), I start hearing the jingle of sleigh bells and the rustle of wrapping paper inside my head. It smells of everything that is great about Christmas, a mixture of pine trees, satsumas, chocolate coins, mulled wine and mince pies and puts me in the festive mood whenever I come home to the scent of it. I buy mine from Place Settings in Topsham which is chock full of gorgeous things (as is Topsham itself for that matter) and well worth a visit if you’re in the Exeter area.

3.    On a more practical note, I’m totally in love with the little Innocent Veg Pots which I’ve been having for lunch the last few days. There’s a range of flavours but my favourites are the Indian daal and Moroccan giant couscous one and they’re full of lovely fresh veggies, beans and herbs and leave you with a full but virtuous feeling of being at one with nature and brimming with healthy loveliness. Essentially, they’re just grand.

4.    I’m not actually feeling super inspired in the crafty sphere right now, largely because of the state my dining table is in yet again but I’ve a very strong feeling that the imminent arrival of the Handwritten Fonts design card for my Slice will reawaken the slumbering beast of creativity because I do so adore handwriting fonts and can’t wait to be able to use them on my layouts and, with the added bonus of never ever running of Es (eek, nasty run on sentance). Making Memories have brought out lots of new design cards recently and other favourites include Farm Life, Mix and Mingle and Home Sweet Home(are you listening Santa?)

5.     Finally, and perhaps this should take it’s rightful place at number one, is this little fellow who we adopted from the Cats Protection League on Saturday, although we’ve only just lost out little Tessykins and still miss her dreadfully, we’re suckers for an emergency appeal for new homes and decided it couldn’t hurt to look, in case they had someone we thought would fit in with the rest of our furry (and feathery) family. I’d seen his profile on the internet before we left and planned to check him out, but I was not quite prepared for the huge, fluffy and purring ball which jumped into my arms as soon as I opened his window. It’s always heartbreaking to go to the CPL and pick one cat, when you have leave so many behind, but they’re so good at finding homes for them all we knew that he was the one for us.

He came in a from family who couldn’t afford to keep him because he’d been hit by a car and needed expensive surgery to pin his back leg in place and he’d been on cage rest for a couple of months before being available for adoption. I can safely say he is one of the softest, floppiest, cuddliest and most inquisitive cats I’ve ever met and he just follows us around the house trying to climb into various appliances and cupboards to see what’s going on. The other cats are still a little unsure of him and coming around very slowly, but Morrissey (we changed his name from Bandit) is taking it all in his stride.

This has gone on far too long now and I can’t imagine anyone is still reading. Hello? Anyone? Thought not. Anyway, because that was the day we got Mozzer (that seems to be what we’re calling him – all our animals have stupid nicknames – Elvie answers to the name Schnibble, Sophie is referred to as Snuffalupps, Clementine gets called Clomp or Wumpus and Tessy was always know as The Weasel), my Halloween pumpkin had a fairly dominant cat motif (i.e. was a cat) and this seemed like an appropriate arena in which to share it before I forget and Halloween becomes irrelevant (actually that may have happened already).