Contemporary Stained Glass Angels + Advent App

A host of Angels for The Stained Glass Museum Shop.  Last year I made them in a range of pastel colours, this year they're dressed in sparkly Jack Frost white.

Can I confess that I used to rather dislike this type of glass - but look how pretty it is on a wintery infant-school-nativity angel!

✳ ✶ ❉ ❊ ❄ ✺ ✻ ✸ ✳ ❋ ❆ ✳

I was very happy to see that Binny Talib has designed another beautiful Advent Calendar app.  Me and the kids loved last years (it was still being played with well into October!) so we can't wait for next Sunday to open the first door.  The illustrations are sweetly charming, and combined with jaunty barbershop quartet music and wonderfully inventive activities each day, I hope this will become a very modern Christmas tradition.  You can download it here.

P.S.  If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you will have seen me get a bit emosh and excitable about our cat Dodger, who had been missing for 6 weeks, being rescued from a narrow gap in between two buildings by an estate agent.  Very skinny and weak (the cat, not the estate agent), but alive, and now back home with us.  He is very happy to be back.  So are we.

30/5/13

During "No News" times, it's always ok to post pictures of your cat looking cute/half asleep on your blog.

Pets

We have been deliberating for a long time about getting a pet.  The girls were desperate.   I wasn't keen - I could see it just meant more work and cleaning and worrying.  And the only pet I really like is out of the question as Mike is allergic to cats.

But then my sister discovered that a farm cat had had a litter of kittens at the end of her garden, and they were living in her shed.

It hadn't occurred to me that a cat could live in a shed.

At the same time, our garden had developed an embarrassing rat problem (compost bin to blame).   It didn't take long to do the maths.

So now we have two utterly adorable kittens living in our shed.  There is a bit of work and cleaning and quite a lot of worrying about them.  But mostly there is sitting and watching them, and trying to tame them a bit, and the occasional and very satisfying purr.

Top: Otto
Bottom: Jammy Dodger