Owl Ashtray, Cross Stitch and Drawing

The first thing I want to show today is especially for Eve as I read on her blog she likes owls.

This is the coolest owl related item we have: an owl ashtray!

It is from a dutch cigarbrand that no longer excists, 'Uiltje', which was also known outside the Netherlands as 'White Owl'.

On to other things:

My owner was cross stitching this morning and I tried my hand at it too, but I think it's very fiddly work, so I didn't do more then a few stitches.

At work I was bored and as I couldn't help out my owner I've been drawing a bit.

Rain and Work

All the snow is already gone again and it was raining most of the day today.

There was also a very nasty, cold wind which I could feel when sitting next to the window.

Luckily I got a large glass of hot tea from my owner to get warm again, but drinking it was a challenge I can tell you.

The rest of the day I spend guarding the spoons as we only have a few of them left at the catering. It seems like people just take the spoons with them for whatever reason.

Poker, Slush and Warhammer

We played Texas Hold'em Poker yesterday.

I didn't win, but it was lots of fun.

On the news yesterday, they said it would snow all night and into today and there would be 10 centimeters of snow where we live.

Well..... As you can see there was some snow, but it started raining early in the morning so when we were on our way to work this morning, most snow had already turned into:

Slush...... Yuk!



Tonight my owner's OH is going to play 'Warhammer 40k' with some friends.
He already set up the table so I've been playing in the buildings he made for the game.
I felt like a giant.
It feels good to be too big for things for once.

Annoying balloon and Neil Gaiman

Today at work there was an annoying balloon.

People kept throwing it around and it bumped across our desk and against my head a couple of times.

Tonight there's another games night, but until our guests arrive I'm going to read this book: Coraline by Neil Gaiman. It's a very beautiful story and they're making it into a movie (animated), so I must go see it when it's out.

On another note:

Eve Noir has made my blog 'Blog of the Moment' on her Looking Glass Blog here

Isn't that cool?!

My home and other things

Here's a picture of my home.

It's the house with the pointy roof.

We live on the first and second floor, the ground floor isn't part of our home.

Today we went out for a walk again and the weather was beautiful, just look at that blue sky.


We walked around the Northern Cemetary that is close to our home.
It's a beautiful place.



Lastly a picture my owner took when she caught me and Angus taking a nap.

Pie, Shopping and Flowers

Well, here's a picture of the pie after we cut it after all.

We're planning on trying out more pies, like cherrypie or something like that.

Today we went to a booksale where we saw this cover for a notebook.

It was still very expensive, certainly for a sale, so we didn't buy it, but it was tempting.

My owner did get me a card with a pig on it at another bookstore.

And on our way to the grocerystore we just had to stop in the park as we saw that the Snowdrops are almost in bloom (they are my owner's favourite flowers).

Work, Voodoo doll and Pie!!

We had to work again today.

Here I am hanging out in one of the pockets of my owner's jacket.

And here I am with my little voodoo doll, who's name is simply 'Voodoo Bride'.

She's a bit camera-shy so that's why she's not in many pictures with me, but I almost always take her with me. Usually she can be found in my travellingbag.

This evening we made a blueberry/blackberry pie!

This is my owner's apron.
He's called Rudolph for obvious reasons.

All set to start on the pie.

I even got my own apron.

Checking the blueberries.

I had my own bowl to sit in so I wouldn't step in the flour or the berries.

The pie before it went into the oven.

It is a very special pie as you can see: it is especially made for pigs.

The finished pie.

It turned out a bit pale but it smells delicious!

(It tastes delicious too, but we didn't take a picture of it after we cut it.)