As I mentioned in my description -- I do love animals and own a horse and some cats (at the moment 6 grown up cats and 4 babies) so the news about them are bound to jump into my blog from time time.

Last night one of my queens -- Serafima Karmino Cat gave birth to 5 little kitties -- 4 boys and a girl -- a pretty tortie, just like mamma. The boys -- two ginger and white little monsters and two elegant black and white numers are feeling jsut great and already voicing their protests loudly to the world. The little girl unfortunately did not survive -- something wrong with her lungs I suspect... A pity.
I will have a rowdy few months it seems :) Though in general Kurillian Bobtails (that is the breed of the cats that I own) are very easilly trained and by the time the kitties are a month old they will have learned all the essential rules of living in a respectable home :)

 It started getting cold here. Cold and drab... The pretty colours of autumn are almost gone, but my mind is still stuck in summer. Here's what it thought of most recently:

I am going to a steampunk/cyberpunk party tomorrow and have nothing to wear in the category of jewellery. Ok, I'm lying -- I do have a very nice pendant my mother gave me -- two brass jigsaw pieces connected with leather, really suitable, but appart from that -- nada, zilch.
So, I started browsing around and realised, that I could make some myself. I recently got some copper wire just to see how I will manage to work with it and after making a few clasps and other tidbits put it aside for the time being.

This set is a last year Christmas present for my mother -- she likes peals and I like bright colours, so this is what came out of the two:

So the event is over! Everyone (I hope) had great fun and I am really looking forward to the next one. I loved the fact that people took time to make or adapt their costumes to the requirements of their respective houses -- so the event looked beautiful as well as was interesting. For the latter we have to thank the game masters!
The premise of the game was that there is to be a wedding between two houses that have been at war with each other for a while already -- House Blackwood (the only followers of the old faith so far south) and House Bracken. The House which is the rulling house of all these parts is House Tully and the Lord of the house deemd this wedding to be the only way to finally end the enmities. Unfortunatelly Lord Tully dies several months before this takes places and Lady Ayleen Tully takes the matters into her hands to finish what her husband started.

 I have finally finished a choker for this set. It had to be a bracellet, but the motive I started sewing ended up being somewhat too long for a bracelet and now I have this: