Birman Cat Premium Jigsaw Puzzle

I use those flea drops you put on the back of the neck. The Advantage ones work well on my cats. I have never known a cat who likes water tho I have seen pictures of some who seem to. Good luck.

We use advantage also. Expensive, but it does the job well, and a package lasts several months.

Yeah - Hope the soap didn't get in the ears. We just bought our dog into the vet because of an ear infection. Both ears and quite bad - the vet asked if water got into her ears when we bathed her. That was one thing hubby insisted was making sure to wash the ears - I stayed away from the ears. Two vet visits this month for her. The infection and a spay.

This cat looks more like a Himalyan - seal point or siamese.

Good to have you
I am slow also but who cares
I have more than money

Welcome, chuch49, and don't worry about times - just have fun! Try different puzzle cuts, too. You may find one that really "clicks" for you. I prefer the hex cut and get some of my best times in it.

That should say
I have more time than money

Love the story, do you remember the name of the book? I'd get a kick out of reading it!

Hi kjd. I found it on the internet. It's called Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag. It's an old book and won an award.
Wikipedia has a summary.

Thanks, I'll have to go look it up!

I had forgotten about Millions of Cats! "Hundreds and thousands and millions of cats! " I need to locate that for my g-granddaughter, who loves all cats. And I have a white longhair, who sheds on the bed, and whose hair felts into little hard balls when I wash the sheets. I save the hair I brush from him and turn them into felted balls, rather fun!

Hi Coravee. I have been saving the hair that comes out on my brush to make a "rat." Remember what those were? They are clumps of hair to be used as filler for a chignon or bun. I figure the best way to get a match is use my own hair and it's so much less icky that pinning someone else's to one's head. I may never use it but I am saving hair.

Sounds like a plan! And if you decide to, you can stuff a pincushion with it. They say the human oils are good for keeping pins and needles from rusting.

Wow. A pin cushion. I haven't seen one of those since my grandmother died. Hers had some sort of grit in it. I think it was supposed tp be a tomato, but the embroidery thread that went around it like longtudinal lines made it look like a red pumpkin.

I collect vintage pincushions, mostly family ones. They are in all kinds of interesting shapes. I agree, those tomatoes were sure pumpkin shaped. I was just given an old one in the same shape, but light blur velvet with a design of dots painted on, filled with sawdust. My favorite family one is a brown velvet acorn, glued into a real acorn cap.

That acorn sounds so cute, Coravee. How did you start collecting pin cushions?

It started when husband's family was clearing out stuff. I would be so interested in the unusual ones, so they started giving me any they found. There are a couple crocheted on to chicken wishbones! Certainly the most bizarre. A glass cup and saucer painted pink, with a cardboard lid that fits the cup that is padded to be a pincushion, and it lifts to store thread and thimble. There is an unusual one of 1930's materials that has many cloth-covered cardboard sort of trumpets, all put together into a globe, and the center of each trumpet is a ball-shaped pincushion! The whole thing is only 4 or 5 inches across and must have taken days to make as all the cardboard pieces are hand overcast with tiny stitches. It is just fun to watch for unusual ones now, or to make them.

Do display them at your local library? Our local library has cases for displaying collections like that. Wish I could see yours!

I do, too. I have an Eskimo Blanket toss pincushion with the little children in their fur trimmed parkys holding the "blanket" and a jumping child on a long pin that sticks in the center. It's also good to hold fashion pins.

That sounds so intricate. It reminds me of a restaurant which has since burned down which had made multiple diaramas in miniature of scenes of different Indian tribes. They had one similar to what you are describing but as an entire scene. It was my favorite one.