Believe it!

We Feel Fine

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:27:03 GMT

That book, "We Feel Fine", where they used that little picture of Matt with Jarvis as a baby and a quote from my lj has been released!!! Besides the fact that my family is in it, it actually looks like a pretty interesting book! It's not even 7am yet and today is already excellent! ^_^

Check it out... http://bit.ly/wffbook

New Stores...

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:12:25 GMT

Kittycat Black jewellery is now available in a few new stores...
Vivien of Holloway and Kitten Klaw Kitsch in London and Funky Fadz in NSW, Australia.

Joolz!

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:19:38 GMT

joolz00 had her man take some gorgeous photos of her wearing her Kittycat Black chokers a while back and I've only just got around to uploading them.

Some of you might recognise Joolz from the gorgeous shot of her I have in the website header banner...

Well here are some of the awesome new ones...

I've also updated all of my banners... including finally adding all of the other gorgeous model shots to...

I know I have an excessive number of banners but whenever I am going to link to someone I love having a selection to choose from so I figure offering that to others is good. :)

Still lots more website stuff to do but it's getting there.

Chokers!

Fri, 09 May 2008 23:46:46 GMT

Click here to go to my ebay store.

Some of my very last one of a kind pieces are up for sale... only 3 left!

Also some awesome black cat necklaces for $5 and $15!

More 1c Auctions...

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:07:33 GMT

New pink & purple Pirate Girl chokers and more!
Click to go to my eBay store.

100 new doll jewelry designs!!

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:24:46 GMT

Here are just a few from the new range of over 100 new pieces...

Borrowed from swissarmyknife

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:47:27 GMT

Found it on one of the WWII photo communities.

I love it. ♥

More designs...

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:23:51 GMT

I just wanted to show off my new pirate nurse design...
I will be listing these on eBay at 1c auction over the coming weeks.

Also I just completed four designs for "The Models of VOP Fashion & Rock Show"
(VOP is Visually Odd Photography). I made them more elaborate
than usual just so they stand out a bit more. :) Here they are:

Here are a few other bits and pieces...

A nurse choker variation.

Eyeballs! That glow in the dark!!! lol

My second last custom
(one more until I'm up to date and then I take
a break from custom orders for a while).

Fiend Magazine...

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:34:44 GMT

Some of you might remember a while back I found out there was a mention of Kittycat Black in a magazine... well I have finally gotten around to posting it. Here it is...

Just down the bottom there. :D How exciting!! They spelled Kittycat Black "Kitty Kat Black" but I can't complain. That actually happens often enough for me to have bought both domain names for the website. :)

Jewelry!!!

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:28:05 GMT

New jewelry up in my eBay store!

My new 'slave bracelets' also known as capture bracelets... a ring and a bracelet in one the chain sits on the back of your hand... I think they look awesome! :)

Cute new cat earrings! Angie these are the ones I thought we could put in Pussies Galore!

Cherry chokers... available in a stack of different colours and patterns... see the photo below for options...

Limited edition butterfly chokers... these just take too long to make! lol

Meli the following chokers are some of the single strand chokers I thought you might be interested in...

The full paw print set... I think the colour is shown better in the image above this one though.

These next few I didn't actually make myself but they are still for sale!

Even more items still in the store!

Recipes!

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:37:28 GMT

Yesterday I had a Tupperware party and it went smashingly. :D We had lots of yummies to eat and everyone bought lots of tupperware! I got a big lot of free goodies too! Yay!

It reminded me that I have promised a few people that I would post my recipes and then I have forgotten! Yesterday I made 'Spuds' which are little coconut truffles dusted with cocoa so they look sort of like dirty potatoes. lol I think we will rename them Bounty Balls though because they taste like bounty bars. Next time I am going to cover them with melted chocolate!

Also ages and ages ago I made my Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie and promised to post the recipe. Finally here it is!

This is the original sweet potato shepherd's pie.

This is the regular potato variation... ie. regular shepherd's pie!

Sweet Potato Shepherd's Pie
(this recipe makes two regular sized pies - I bake both and leave one in the fridge for the next day and reheat it in the oven. Often it is even more flavoursome the next day because of the herbs etc.)

All Ingredients Needed:
1/2 jar (approx 250g) sundried tomatoes
1 can diced tomatoes
2tblsp golden syrup
2tblsp sweet chilli sauce
1 onion
2 teaspoons crushed garlic
2 beef stock cubes
1 bacon stock cube
salt, oregano & basil to taste (I used dried herbs and I put quite a bit in, particularly with the basil).
500g beef mince
2 cups grated carrot
1 cup peas
1 cup corn kernels
5 medium regular potatoes or a combination of sweet potatoes and regular potatoes.

Sauce
1/2 jar (approx 250g) sundried tomatoes
1 can diced tomatoes
2tblsp golden syrup
2tblsp sweet chilli sauce
1 onion
2 teaspoons crushed garlic
2 beef stock cubes
1 bacon stock cube
salt, oregano & basil to taste (I used dried herbs and I put quite a bit in, particularly with the basil).

Add all of these ingredients to the food processor and blend. If you don't have a food processor sundried tomatoes and onion can be chopped. Add all of these ingredients to the saucepan and bring to the boil.
Then add the following ingredients:

Filling
500g beef mince
2 cups grated carrot
1 cup peas
1 cup corn kernels

Stir and cook on medium heat until the mince has browned and then reduce a little. Leave on reasonably low heat until the carrots and peas have cooked well.

Next prepare the potatoes.

Potato Topping
5 medium regular potatoes or a combination of sweet potatoes and regular potatoes.
Milk as needed

Steam (or boil) the potatoes (chopped into medium sized pieces). When they are done add to the food processor and blend them to a puree. Add milk as needed to get a nice smooth texture.

Leave your frozen pastry squares to thaw as directed on the pack (mine say defrost for 15 mins). When they are ready cover the bottom of two pie dishes with pastry. Fill the bases with the mince filling prepared earlier and then spread the potato mash on top.

Bake in the oven using the frozen puff pastry directions for a pie. I can't remember what mine said! lol

---oOo---

Bounty Balls
4 cups of coconut
4 cups of icing sugar
1 can of condensed milk
1 tsp of vanilla essence
Cocoa for dusting

Add all of the ingredients together, mix and then roll into little balls. Dust the balls with cocoa and you're done!

This recipe makes quite a large batch so it might be better to halve it unless you have to feed an army. :P

---oOo---

Joanna's Skulls...

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:31:27 GMT

Yay! I finished my latest custom order!

This was the sketch Joanna gave to me (I coloured it in but other than that it was her design).

The finished choker!

The separate strands of the choker which can each be worn as a separate necklace.

The bracelet.

And earrings!

And now I'm off to bed!!! *yawn*

Pie! ...and Wenatex

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:42:04 GMT

So I finally got around to making my sweet potato shepherd's pie! It was FANTASTIC!!! Matt even said it was the 'best pie ever'! :D

Here it is...

Mmmmm PIE!!!

I am also wearing an apron that my Aunty Peggy started making (she cross-stitched and cut out the pieces) and I finished (by sewing it all together) because she didn't have a chance to finish it while she was still alive. I love my apron!

Matt's excited about Wenatex!!! LOL :P

He got that letter in the mail saying he and a partner were invited to an obligation free dinner and we'd also get a free $20 gift. Obviously the whole thing screams AMWAY or something but we figured we'd go for the free dinner and a bit of entertainment and adventure. lol Matt thought it was a scam and was curious to know how they planned to recoup the free meal and gift (which they didn't hehehe). The food was yum... and the guy hosting it wasn't tooo much of a hardcore salesman. The product was an orthopedic mattress and doona/pillow "system".

Our friend Dan also came along and we all got to have a chuckle at the GIANT magnified pictures of dust mites they passed around for us to look at (which I had predicted they would do when we were talking in the car beforehand). Sure the product was pretty cool (I got to lie on it and be the model). It was comfortable and the mattress has this awesome core full of relaxing herbs (like lavender etc) which smell lovely... but the whole thing was SO expensive!! I'd buy it in a second if it was like $1000 but it was $6000!!!! o_O Insanity! It's because they're making the whole thing in Austria... if they were making it in China they could sell it for $1000 and then I'd have a nice new mattress.

So anyway... that was our evening with Wenatex. And they also gave us our free presents to the value of $20!!! lol It was a herbal massage balm and some special wool wash stuff for the washing machine. Overall I have to say I had a good evening. Thumbs up to Wenatex... I hope they invite us over for dinner again! :) lol

In the end Wenatex did alright because there was another couple there all set to buy a "sleeping system" from them.

*** UPDATE 9th October 2007 ***
So it seems that there isn't a whole lot of real material online about Wenatex and so this LJ entry is coming up high in Google when you guys search on it.

I'm glad I can give this non biased information so you know just what you might be getting yourself into! That said, the Wenatex people really didn't do a hard sell, though they were obviously still pushing the product. The night was comfortable enough and it was a good product. I am just not a fan of that kind of selling. If it is really worth that much then they should have no problems selling it in a regular store for the same price.

The night was educational and I learnt about a fantastic material called 'memory fibre' or 'memory foam' that they have built into their mattresses. This material contours to fit your spine and means that the bits of your body that stick out more than the others will sink further into the bed making it much more comfortable and keeping your vertebrae in better alignment.

I have since bought a contour pillow made of this same memory fibre from IKEA for I think it was $15... Crazy Clarks also offers the same pillows from time to time at an even cheaper price. This pillow has done wonders for my neck and I never wake up with a sore neck anymore.

As far as mattresses go you can buy a memory fibre mattress overlay from Pillowtalk... they seem to be the only store in Brisbane offering such a thing. The overlays are about $199 for a King size and then less for each smaller sized mattress. Again, no more back aches and it was especially comfortable when I was heavily pregnant last year in those last 'I'm larger than a bus' months.

If you want to buy either of these items just remember memory fibre is the stuff that stays squished in for a bit after you squish it and then slowly plumps back out again. Regular foams don't do this.

These things have made my bed lush and way more comfortable than before and at a fraction of the cost of the Wenatex 'sleep system'.

As far as the free meal goes I have no qualms about taking someone up on their offer of an 'obligation free dinner'. If this bothers them then it obviously wasn't truthfully an obligation free dinner!

I say go and enjoy the free meal so long as you aren't easily talked into buying something you don't want. :)

*** UPDATE 3th March 2008 ***
Everyone who reads this should know that someone (obviously a Wenatex representative) has been spamming this post with fake positive comments on their products all day today (all pretending to be different people).

How do I know it's the same person? I log IP addresses here. ;) *cough* 58.110.43.71 *cough*

It seems they've been doing the same on any blogs that they can find on the internet that reference Wenatex.

What I can guarantee you is that any comment by me on here is entirely non biased. I am not opposed to Wenatex, I just think that they are overpriced. I don't think that anything I've said here has been nasty and yet they've thrown in some insults too. Wenatex, I think I've thrown you a bone here by being pretty neutral. If the constant fake comments continue I will disable anonymous commenting and this post will stay here as it is and you'll have no option to add anything. Your choice. ;)

*** UPDATE 20th November 2008 ***
Just adding some useful information posted here by someone...

"After reading all of this, I did some further research on foam overlays and mattresses using "memory foam" and have discovered that "Dunlop" produce this type of foam and several manufacturers and retailers in Australia stock it/use it in their products. If you go to the website of "Dunlopfoams" it has all the information about the product and has links to retailers eg. Clark Rubber & Super Amart and manufacturers of mattresses eg.Sleepmaker, Sleephaven, Adriatic Slumber etc who use it in their mattresses. I know Town & Country advertise a "memory foam" queen size mattress from $999 which is well short of Wenatex price. Worth looking at I reckon. Hope this is helpful."

*** UPDATE 10th September 2009 ***
A month or so ago I got an email from livejournal saying that someone had attempted to reset the password for my journal (and it wasn't me). This has never before happened in the entire 6 years I've had this journal so you can imagine that it was at least a little unnerving. Livejournal also happened to send the IP address of the guilty party in that email.

I looked it up and it was somebody in Austria! Now at the time I thought, 'That's weird! Who do I know in Austria?!'. It has only recently occurred to me that the Wenatex head office and factory is located in Austria. That plus the fact that this entry comes up at the top of a Google search for "Wenatex" and they'd probably like to delete it... coincidence? You be the judge.

Men are like shoes?

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:53:11 GMT

I'm always telling people that when I met Matt I just knew he was 'the one'. I know a lot of people don't really understand that and people are often asking 'but how do you just know?'. So I thought about it and I realised that the best way to explain it is using my shoe analogy. lol

There are lots of reasons you might buy a pair of shoes. Y'know sometimes you just need a new pair, or they look really good, or they are a bargain or the best pair you could find at the time so you buy them even though you know that they don't fit perfectly. They have their good points and they are obviously worth buying but they're just not the perfect shoes and somewhere in the back of your mind you know it each time you wear them.

When you find the perfect shoes you just KNOW!! They are SO comfortable... you could wear them forever and you pray that they won't wear out because you can't imagine ever finding another pair quite so perfect.

Quite simple really... but I think it makes a lot of sense.

PS - How awesome are those mary janes? *dies*

1/4 page ad! Yay!!

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 09:42:24 GMT

i just got done making a 1/4 page ad for Abracadaver magazine...

Now I will have a cup of apple cinnamon tea. ^_^