Surf or Die

Hi! My name is Dio and you might remembers me from previous blogging posts. Well, I'm here to tell you that my moms has been rilly rilly bizzie doing stoopid stuff, like not petting me! Can you beeleeve that wood happen?!

Well, sumtimez my moms goes to werk. You know what they are doing at her werk lately? They gibe you a cardboard box and tell you to go home.

I KNOW, RIGHT?!!!!!

Can you beeleeve that? Your very own cardboard box!!!! And you git to go home!!! How nice is that?!!

Sumhowz my moms doezn't think that is very nice. She sayz she has werked there for a bazillion years, like moor than I am old, but I'm not berry old, and she has sum cardboard boxes of her own at home already.

Anywayz, it is summers time now and that means you should go surfing! Surf or die! Surf or die! Here's a kitty cat and he is surfing.

Here's my moms and dads. They are dying.

The Fine Prints: kitty stamp by Pennys Black, weird exercise called Glide Fit and it makes you rilly rilly seesicks. Luv ya! -Dio

You've Cat to be Kitten Me!

So my name is Dio and Im the Guest Columnist today. My gurlfurend had a babie. So now sumtimez I gotta babie sit. I lurned that dozn't mean you get to sit ON the babie. Dat's too bad cuz the babie is nice and warm. And soft.

I also lurned that wen the babie cries, you go and get the babies mom. You find her and say, "Hey ladie, your babie is crying."

And here's a card my mom's furend sented her. That furend haz the bestest cat stamps. Well, my mom haz the bestest cats! Uh huh.

The Fine Print: Stamps by Art Impression. 

Stealing My Thunders

Hi, my name is Charles and I'm busy keeping watch for Santa Claus now.  See, I gotta set him straight on something that happened today.

My mom dropped her water bottle lid and it bounced off her foot and disappeared. She said, "Oh no, Charles, Help me!" So I crawled around on the floor with her and we looked and looked for the lid but it was gone.

I told my mom a idea I had, "Get the stick, Mom! Get the Stick! The stick! The stick!" and I ran down the hall to where the stick lives in the closet. Mom got the stick out and then she fished around under the stove. I helped her move the stick so it would right. Just when the lid was about to come out from under the stove my little brother, Dio, reached in and grabbed it with his paw and gave it to her.

"Thank you, Dio!" she squealed, "You are the best cat ever!"

Now he's all saying that Santa is bringing him all the presents and none for me. That's not right! I did all the work. I crawled on the floor and I told my to get the stick and I helped her use the stick. Dio just took all the credit. Well, so I have to tell Santa how it really went down.

I hope your Christmas is merry!

The Fine Print: The stick is a yardstick bought for the express purpose of fishing cat toys out from under things. I got it from the hardware store. They keep them in the locked cage with the drills and other expensive tools because a good yardstick is worth its weight in gold. Happy holidays!

Advice From Dio

Hi, I'm Dio and I'm gonna be your guest columnist today. As a Life Coach I kin give you sum excellent advice. Here is sum now: It is okay to be lazy, but sometimes you gotta move around a little bit so the vultures don't eat you.

See, the clouds were being rilly lazy this morning. I s'pose it is okay because dey were rilly buzy last making growls and lights and rainings. But if they don't git up soon, vultures might eat them.

My mom made this pretend pickture of me. It's called an Ay Tee See. She made a whole bunches of them.

The Fine Print: Window die by Taylored Expressions, cat die by Memory Box, scenery stamp and brick embossing folder by Stampin' Up.

Spooky Birds

Hi. My name is Charles. I'm kinda shy around peoples I don't know, okay? My mom asked me to do a guest post for her cuz she doesn't have any oxygen. She's coughing and coughing, and probably has bubonic plague. I keeped a close eye on her to see if she's gonna turn into a zombie. Not yet.

Here's a spooky card for a spooky day.

The Fine Print: My mom said I had to write about the card here. It has purples on it and birds. Then she said Inkadinkado. I think she's trying to cast spells. 

Werk Desk Wednezday

Hi Ebreebodies! I'm Dio and I am gonna be your Guest Columnist today becuz I haz to sit the rekord streight!  See, ebreebodies bisits my mom on Werk Desk Wednezday and they sey "Wot a nice craft room you haf there!"

Well, it's not her room. It's MY room. I jist want you all to know that. I enterupt my napping to tell you dis. Dis room haz my cat tree sleepin post, and my toy bocks, and my witterbocks, and my snacks. I tells my mom she kin kum in and bisit me but she has to keep her craps pixed up!

Dis is her desk wen she woz makking cards for birfdays and for fun and stuff. See rite there I culd not git on top of the desk becuz the papers are there. I culd swlip on them and fall rite down. Wen she leeves her craps there I nok them down on the grownd! Boom! Boom! Boom! Rite on the grownd.

Mom sez peepuls want to see the DVD bookshelf cuz they think it is tall. It is 2 short ones on top of each udder. My mom tooked their feets off so they can't walk away and haf to sit streight.

Dis is a kard that Maxine sented us cuz we mooved. It sez "Hab a happy new howse and gib Dio sum mor treets." I no it sez that cuz I kin reed.

The Fine Print: Nufing to see heer, moove along.

Silent Night

Shh........  in just a few more hours Santa's gonna bring me a present!

I know cuz Santa used Amazon to deliver it and I could smell it. It smells real nice and happy.

Favor for Dio

Hey Doods and Laydees!

It's Dio here and I gotz to tell yew sumfing that is bad news and it iz happenen to me. It iz reel bad so you laydees bedder sitted down furst. I ned a favors! My mom and my dad they chazes me arond manie times a day wif liddle wite boddles.  Then they holded me down and sqwirts liqwid into bof my ears!  Manie mani timez a day!

Den my mom she holded me down and puts a pill in my mouf! And she holds my jawz untill I swalow the pillz. Sumtimes I dunt want to so then I wont swalow and it taysts reel bad. Sumtimes I spitted out the pill and den I gits in troubles.  This happenz manie times a day to.

This is jist bad newz. I fink it meens my mom and my dad wented crazy.  I fink mabbe they dunt like me no moor. They dunt do it to my brovfers or sistors. Jist me.

So mabbe you kin rite my mom and a dad a letter and say that Dio is a gud cat and he shood git treeted reel nice and git treets to like elebenty times a day. OK? Yew kin tell them that mabbe Cindee neds sqwirts in the ears but not Dio.  Fanks!

The Fine Print: Dio is doing elebenty times better since his ear surgery.  We can tell because of how hard he fights the drops and the pills. That's all for today. He has a follow up with his doctor next week but I doubt the pills will end soon. Anywho... Tomorrow I might remember to share a card. 

Wet Workdesk Wednesday

Hewwo! My name is Dio and my mom axed me to dew this post about Werkdesk Wednesday cuz she's sick. I fink she haz Ebola. But dunt worrie she sawed a dockter and got sum pills so she kin be all betters tomorrow.  Enny way this be a short post becuz I got to get back to my napping. I woz up all nite wif my mom, giving her drinks of water and gibing her nek rubs.

So the desk has had stuff on it for days and days! We dun't git that much around here enny more. Aftur my napping I mite haf to nock sum things off the desk jist cuz I can dew it! My mom werked on sum cards + envelwopes like all in wun! Sumbodie sented her a card like that a long times ago. She used to just trace it and kut it out, but now she figgered it out with the score boards and the envelwope maker. She eben founded a better A2 size wun sense the envelwope maker boards lies about the size.

Here, mom sed we shood share the card + envelwope that started this. It kame from Carli Drake. We dunt no who dat is no moor. Dis woz held shut wif a kitty stikker but my mom cutted it off and savbed it. The inside part is big wik 4 and half by six with a quarter.

Dat's all! We bisit lader. We haf to dew biowologies today to. We listin to dis guy tawk about cells and mitosis and meiosis. It iz in yer bodies.

PeeEss... waters comming from the sky today and it only wik 58 deegrees, we need jackets.

The Fine Print: Mom sez maybe we build a puzzle later to. She dunt feel to gud to play with paper, scissers, and glew today. She haznt builded a puzzle in 3 years becuz she finks my brovver wood eat the pieces. He still neber growed up so I dunno. By da way, them cats are old stamps by Tampin' Up. My mom haz em to.

A Storie by Dio

Hi. My name is Dio and it haz bin too long cinse I wroted a guest column.

I waunt to tell yew a storey.  See, dere were these 3 pigs and dey all waunted to bild howses. The furst too pigs they dent waunt to werk hard so dey bilded their howses wif no bilding purmits or anyfing! They useded subpar matereals lik hay and stix.

The last pig he fallowed the rulez and got inspecshuns and purmits and he useded brix! His howse tooked a long time to bild. The uther pigs were all watching dere big skreen TeeVees and drinkin beers and dey made funs of da last pig. Finalwe the last pig got his howse all bild.

Then this big bad wulf comed up--a wulf is wik a dawg but wif pointee-er teef! This wulf he had azz-ma wik my mom doz becuz he hufted and pufted. He hufted and pufted so much dat the furst too pigses howses fell down! Dey falled rite down.

The too pigs runned ober to the last pigs howse and dey hided incide where da big bad wulf cood not find dem. The wulf cood not nock ober the last pig howse wif hiz azz-ma huffin and puffin so he wented away.

The furst too pigs dey stayed in da howse made of brix and they did nawty things wik clogging up da toylet, leaving beer kans eberywhere, brokened the washen masheen, rekked the car, and leaved trash eberywhere.

The moral of dis storee is that there will allwayz be sumbodie who dont wanna fallow the rulez and dew fings the EZ way.  Then they will expeck a bail out from da rest of us who doed fings rite. Then they will go on to rooen all the nise fings we have.

The Fine Print: The other moral to this story is don't hire lazy pigs for construction jobs.  And, no, the balloon has nothing to do with the story.  Sometimes a balloon is just a balloon.  Card stuff by Club Scrap.

To Cat or Not to Cat

I'm Charles.  I'm hogging the blogging today.

Workdesk #284

Hi doods! I'm Dio here to share workdesk Wednesday wif you all and be nosy and wook at desks all days long.  Julia is hosting number 284 for us today.  My mom tooked terrible piktures today, except for mine cuz it is hard to get a bad foto of Dio! My mom cood do it though!

The desk is boring though becuz mom pikked it up again. It is becuz she coodn't fink of any playing to do and there woz tape on it and my sister Cindy tried to eat it all up.  Dat's so weird.  So mom tooked a foto of the table too cuz it haz stuff on it.

 

Dis is some fings my mom wants to work on. She gots sum scarey crow doods and a die cut fing that cuts and folds so yew need dubble sided papers for it.  By the ways, I had to hold the scarey crow doods down so they woodn't excape!

 Dis is a card my mom maded for a swap and there had to be a tag on it.  Not a price tag! But if it had a price tag I wood say sell it for a hundered million dollars!  And then gibe sum to me! And mebbe buy my dad a new mote control.  Hiz is broked. I dint do it.

The Fine Print: Mom sez sorwy, she try to make a messes for next week.  All the stuffs on the card are by A Mews Studio except the brown inks wot is made by sum dood named Tim. I guess yew all no him bery well. I neber met him.  Love, Dio xx (that's kisses not a beer).

Bad Ass Cat Post by a Bad Ass Cat

So it wooks wike if I don't rite a blog post my mom neber will.  So I'm Dio.

My mom tooked me to the doktor on Fridays.  She sed, "Doktor, look in that's cat's ear."  I said, "No way! Do not wook in the Dio ear!" and I hissed and I hissed and I hissed.  Then the doktor gabe me some medicines that made me falls asleep.  Wen I woz sleeping he did a opperashion on bof my ears! At the same times!  Welp maybe not the same times. I'm not shure. I woz sleeping.

Den my mom sed a silly fing.  She sed ebery time we go to the doktor it costeds so much monies! So I say we shoodn't go there eny more.  Dat's easy enuff.  Den we can save monies to buy crunchie treats.

Here's a pickture of a bad ass cat. I'll bet nobodie messes with his ears!

The Fine Print: That's a card made wif a stamp on papers wif eyelets. The only name on the stamp is the lady who used to own it.

Workdesk Wednesday #281

Hi. I'm Dio, the cutest cat in the southwestern Americas.  My mom dozn't dew workdesks Wednesdays no more becuz she doz skewl instead, but now skewl is all done so we can dew workdesks together!  So dis is Werkdesk Wednesday that Julia doz. You kin read about it on dat clicky thing.

I no you like it!  This is bery messy desk with papers and cards and sizzors and inks and stamps and threads and bellishments and markers.  It is hard for me to jump up wif so much stuffs everywhere!

Look at dat! Ink write on the edge! Wot if I nock it off?  It wood be troubles!  Dems Halloween cards my mom shoud put them in the mails but she's lazies.  Dere is stamps and markers too and a new roll of threads called baking cords but you don't cook em. I spy orange candies, dew you see 'em?

Dis is me so you kan dew admiring!

Dis is a spooky pumpkin face made with Kristmas parts becuz dat's silly.  It comed from a swap. I wike swaps, you get cards in da mail! Andrea Blackwell made it.  She doz A Muz stamps too jist like my mom!

Da Fine Print: Dat's it for werkdesk Wednesday today and dat woz so much betters dan biology homewerks! Dat's too much big werds in dat.  I bisit yew now at yer blog and say hi.

Mr. D's Modeling Career

Hi! My name is Dio and I be the guest columnist today to tell you about my new career.  It's bery exciting.

That Grumpy Cat, he's got nufing on me.  I'm a male model! It's becuz I'm so cute and handsome and get brushing and combing ebery day and bacuum cleanered once a week.  I'm bery lots cuter than my wittle sister.  Remember that, okay.  I'm also bery modest and sweet.  All da time!

Anyway, I modeled for my mom for this card and she said I did a bery good job and she wood recommend me to all her friends who need male models.  My rates are bery unreasonable.

The Fine Print: Pee Ess, that's my dad in the background he's jealous that I'm a model.  All products by A Muse Studio.  Stamps-Nine Lives and Ghostly Greetings, cardstock-grape, lime, onyx, and sugar; other products-paper doily colored with orange splash, clear twinkle stickers, and bat trio die.

Pitty Flowers

My name is Dio and I'll be your guest columnist today becuz mom forgotted it was Makes Up Monday. That's prolly cuz my Gramma came to visit this weekend.  It woz kind of like this:

It woz Gramma's birfdays.  She's like..... older dan me.  They eated fishes to celebrate.  They had to leave the house to do it but we have fishies right here.  They splash me sometimes.  And can you believe that they wented and visited another cat?! They did!  At leasts they didn't invite him home for dinner and drinks and to play with my mousies. They tooked his pickture:

Mom did make one card all weekend wong. It has pitty Tampin' Up flowers on it. And blings.  I like blings.

Well, I gotta go and bite on my brofver now. He's scared of Gramma.  He doesn't know she can do good petting and treats and fings. 'Cept don't let her knit you sweaders.

The Fine Print: Pretty flowers and matching punch by Stampin' Up "petite petals," greeting by A Muse Studio "essential sentiments," dottedness by Provo Craft, blings by Pizazz A'Plenty, stamped in Danube Blue Memento ink.

Budderflies

Hello, My name is Dio and I'm going be your Guest Columnist today because my mom is in a funk. I fink that means she smells funky.  So I had lots of frets this morning.  See mom and dad's cooking machine doesn't work any more. It doesn't make hots.  The landlords are going to bring us a new cooking machine.

Mom tooked the drawer out of the old cooking machine and fished all the mousies out from under it.  She said she didn't want the landlords to see them.  Then she picked up all the mousies from all over the house and hid them!  Does that mean the landlords won't let us have mousies??!  Do we have contraband mousies? I so worried they will see my mousies and take them away.  I'm gonna growl at them when they come with the new cooking machine. Just you see.  That way they know don't mess with my mousies!

My mom says I should talks about budderflies not mousies.  See she made this card for Misses A's budderfly challenge where you had to stitch things up. Well, not really.  She started it but she didn't finish it. I don't know why.  Probably she was scrooing around that's why. She certainly wasn't petting me!

She did finished it now though because it was a dual purpose card for sumpin' else besides a budderfly challenge.  It's got some shimmers on it but you can't really tells too much here.

So my Mom made anofver budderfly card because I guess she likes budderflies or maybe Misses A said she should make one with yellows in it this time.  The budderfly is like metallic shimmers and that is why it had to go outside to get its pickture taken. I'm not allowed outside.

I'm supposed to say that because this card is rather plain Mom put little clear microbeads on the budderflies body to jazz it up, but really its cuz she scratched some of the color off of it, but I'm not allowed to tell that.  I'm not allowed to tell the bad wordz Mom said trying to tie that double bow either.  Anyway, that's the budderflies and I'm Dio.   Until next time....

PEE ESS... Mom says both these cards had snippers in them so they can go merry go 'round on the playground with Di and you all will know what dat means.

The Fine Print: White card embossing folder by Sizzix, stitched circle and fancy flourish by MFT, solid and ornate butterfly by Simon Says Stamps (Chrissy and Leandra), paper flowers by A Muse Studio, pearls from my stash, die cuts from various paper snippets.  Yellow butterfly card butterfly by Dufex (totally awesome sheet of punch out metallic butterflies!), designer paper by unknown, punched edge border snippet (no idea where it came from), ribbon and microbeads from my stash.

HB 2 ME

happy birthday to me.

happy birthday to me.

happy birthday dear....

me.

happy birthday to me.

i'm jack and in honor of my 15th birthday i will allow you to carry me and cater to my 

every whim.

then we can go play fun halloween games

like this one:

the fine print: if you carry me all will be fine

card by friend joan

Spooky Tales from Dio

Hewwo!  My name is Dio and I'm going to be your Guest Columnist todays because my mom is all wored out now.  My mom had a bad sore on her side.  Bery bad.  I tooked her into the baffroom and we stopped the bleedings and then put medicine on it and then a bang aid.  I gived her purr ferapy too.  I told her she need purr ferapy free sessions free times a day but oh no, she says she gotting to go to works.

Anyway she had to see anofver doctor because that didn't get better.  See, she should listen to me and do her purr ferapies!  The doctors cutted her sore out.  That so stupid because when you cuts out a sore all you gets is a bigger sore!  For reals.  Then the doctor had to sew it back up with freds.  I don't fink the doctor did too goods because it is like spider legs all over my mom's side, like all messy, and it keeps doing bleedings.  He didn't scribe any purr ferapies either so I fink he's a quack.

Anyways mom said I should show you dat she putted a smile on her pumpkin card from earliers.  Today she wented to Wendy's house.  Wendy is my girlfriend but I didn't tell her dat yet.  My mom made pretty cards with Wendy. Like a nice spooky Halloween one. It has Grapick 45 papers on it and that means it is specials.

The Fine Print: You means I got write really small, too?  Well I telled you about the cards already.  The pumpkin has a smile now that came from Martha Stewart.  The bottom card has polkie dotted washie tape and vintage book pages, and scallops.  Then it has Stampin' Up stamp and a die to cuts it out.  The fancy cuts is by dat 'lectronic thing crickets or something and pretty flower and crinkles up ribbons.  And the Grapick 45 special papers that only special peoples gets, cuz Wendy's really nice.