Author: Clare at CatsEatDogs

Through The Lens Thursday #37. Game.

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I dragged out my little old Gameboy for this week’s Through the Lens Thursday. I would like to say that I chose my favourite games to go with it, but in truth my inability to play computer games for more than a few seconds at a time makes a favourite an impossible goal. You will be interested to know that I also have a Spiderman game, Star Wars and Star Trek games. It will come as no surprise that I don’t know how to play any of them! I only dislike computer games because I am so bad at them, if I can’t play it, I don’t. Maybe this is why I lose my teeny mind trying to persuade my kids off computer games. I can only stay on Facebook for a few minutes before I get bored and wander off to find something else to do. Maybe this means that my attention span needs improving, I don’t know. Are you a computer game fan? I prefer a nice board game to be honest.

One + Four = Life. Weekly photos 36/52

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I am joining Isabel at Nanjing Nian in this week’s One+Four=Life project.  Four photos to represent the previous week in our world, lots of other bloggers will be linking up, so be sure to pop over and get a virtual world tour of photos! It has been a hot and humid week here, one of the hottest of the summer I think, or maybe it just seems that way to me as I am so over being sweaty and too hot. I have started a new book called ‘Fishbowl’ by Bradley Somer which is a great read and a nice pace which I am sprinting through.  It is one of those books which visits different characters in each chapter and often leaves a cliffhanger at the end of the chapter.  So I am zooming along to get see what happens to them all.  It is based on a group of people who all live in the same apartment block which does not sound like a page turner, but it is.  Not forgetting the goldfish who has …

Through The Lens Thursday #36. Breakfast.

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I am a mite late with this week’s ‘Through the Lens Thursday’, but I made it eventually. Mainly because I don’t really eat breakfast on a regular basis, by the time I want breakfast it is usually mid morning and I figure that I might as well wait for lunch. This morning we had these ‘Queen of Croissant’ treats from Trader Joes, they are a million calories each, but very delicious. Next week I will try and post on time and the prompt is ‘Game’.

Ten Things which tell you I am a Brit Living in the States.

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  I have lived in the United States in the great midwest since 2003 and while I have become assimilated in many ways, some departments of my brain remain staunchly British. You would think that living in a country which speaks the same language (ish) would be a piece of cake to move to. I watched every episode of Friends and hung into Carrie Bradshaw’s every word, so it should be easy, right?  Not so much, there are lots of small things which are different, but not different enough to be immediately obvious. I remember the occasion when I asked someone over the phone if they could put a catalogue in the post for me, after a few minutes of confusing confusion, I learnt that if you want something delivered to your door, it is ‘mail’.  If you want it in the local newspaper, ask for it to be in the ‘post’.  Lesson learned. I never did get the catalogue. I am still getting things mixed up and some things I just can’t get the …

Weekly Photos 36/52

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1. We found a whole dollar in the creek! So we gave it a rinse and hung it out to dry. 2. My parsley is a pot of stalks today, because there were five Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillars munching away at it all week, there are only two caterpillars left today, I wonder if they will turn into butterflies? I hope so. 3. Mushroom! I love spotting the mushrooms starting to pop up in our woods and this one has a little hole in the roof, I assume so the fairies can let the smoke out from their fireplace! 4. I have been trying to sketch objects more so that I get better at drawing. I watched a repeating pattern class on Skillshare, so I made a little pattern tile which repeats lemons! 5. I spotted this jumping little fella on the Hosta plant this week, I was happy that he sat still while I grabbed my phone and snapped a picture. 6. This weekend we went to the St Louis Swap Meet and snagged …

Through The Lens Thursday #35 Triangle

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  For this week’s ‘Through The Lens Thursday’ the prompt was ‘Triangle’, so I decided to find the Bermuda Triangle!  Of course I had no idea where it was, so I consulted Mr Google and here it is. Has anything gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle lately?  Or was it just an eighties menace?  I blame Barry Manilow. Next week is Breakfast which will be an interesting one because I rarely eat breakfast! Happy Thursday x

D.I.Y. Doodle Card

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I had to send some parcels to my Aunty and my cousin this week, and I wanted to pop in a card to say ‘Hi’, so naturally I decided to make them. To start with I grabbed some postcard size colored card stock from our local art store.  I made sure the cards were bold in colour because I knew I was going to try out my white Gelly Roll pen for the design.  Now, Gelly Rolls and I have not got on very well in the past because I have never been able to get a nice line with them, they have always had a tendency to jump and give an uneven line.  I don’t mind an uneven line to a certain extent, but these looked like I had made a drawing with corrector fluid.  But I have seen such lovely things made using the dreaded Gelly Roll that decided to give them another go.  Success!  I don’t know if it was the paper surface (these cards are ultra smooth) or I just had …

The August Break Part One.

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The August Break is the brainchild of the fabulous Susannah Conway and gives bloggers (and anyone else of course!) the opportunity to take lots of cool photos in August following daily prompts.  This August I decided to take the photos with my film camera, so I couldn’t slap them onto Instagram every day, I took the photos best I could and hoped that some of them would be successful in print. 1. Breakfast.  I am not sure why I have to take every photo at a funky angle.  First thing I have to do with digital photos is straighten them! 2. Air. For this photo I asked my 10 year old to chuck some leaves in the air.  I think I will call this one ‘artistic’.  Ahem. 3. Skin.  Tree skin.  Bark. 4. Numbers.  I took one photo for numbers and as I walked away I saw this ticket on the floor and snapped it. 5. Citrus.  Lemons. 6. Notebook.  Some of my current notebooks, I mainly use the big one, the others hang out …

Six Word Saturday featuring The ‘Be-Ro’ Book.

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My Mum sent me the new Be-Ro book this week which was rather exciting mail!  I didn’t even realize they still published the recipe book.  This is the 41st edition and they have been published since 1923.  I have my Grandma’s Be-Ro book from the 1960’s which is the 31st edition and I love to use the recipes in there because they are the good old fashioned staples of baking.  This copy has the added bonus of clippings of recipes that Grandma cut out of magazines or newspapers and paper clipped into the Be-Ro book. The old book falls open at two pages, one with Cornish pasties and Cheese and onion tart and the other well used page is the one with Brownies, Ginger cake and Easy fruit cake which has added notes next to it ‘ Add little coconut and almond essence’.  My Grandma was the master of the fruit cake so I would take her coconut advice if I made this cake! I was pleased to see that some of the recipes are …