Much Madness

Madness is 1 year old Domestic Shorthair that lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was a offspring of a feral female that lost her den. The tom cat and Madness' mother were taken a TNR program, while Madness stayed at the home of the family that rescued her.

She is pretty much Diamond's double - only younger. I am going to do a kitten Madness piece too, just not right now.


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I gather the Gizzy Quilt belongs to Bubbles, but Madness wishes to claim it for herself. As you can see, she likes it quite a bit.

Seven Random Facts About Madness:

1. A part of my tail is missing. Nobody knows where it went.
2. Whenever I do something naughty, like chew the Freak's bed or pounce Bubbles, I plop on my back and show them my tummy. This makes it impossible for them to ever get angry with me. This does not work on Mrs. B.
3. I love to play with tall pieces of grass that the Freak brings in the house specially for this purpose.
4. I am obsessed with Bubbles. I have to follow him everywhere and if possible try to eat his food. Usually the Freak stops me from eating his food though.
5. When I get the crazies (which happens at least once a day) I run around growling at myself.
6. My rolemodel on the blogoshere is Grr. I want to be just like her when I grow up.
7. I LOVE to eat bugs.

I used a free mini-kit called Blue Sky by Mamrotka on this. It it was only four papers and six elements and did not come with a Terms of Use notice and so I have no idea where I got it from, except I downloaded it via Digi-Free. Terrible of me, I know.

The lettering is "neon glow" and you can find it (in three colors) at Free Digital Scrapbooking.


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Enter now the Land of Madness, where the Random Drift factor comes into play.

I used the ArrrMatey kit from Digital Freebies for this, but should note that I tried to make it not look piratey. The kit just has some nice colors.

Caution: Contains Peanuts

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Peanut is Misty's pup, although she's quite grown up now. Much like her mom, she's quite the sweetheart. Peanuts and chocolate just sort of go together, don't they?

She's currently six years old, a Rotty/American Pit Bull Terrier mix. She loves chasing geese in the park, her bones, her tennis balls, socks, shoes or anything else left on the floor.

She is also known as Peanut the Poop Monster, I'm sure you can figure out why.

I used Raspberry Road Designs' Mocha Love kit which is a freebie. It was done as a favor for a friend who wanted the Pink and chocolate colors only in the kit. My initial feeling was what would I use it for, but it seems that it has some potential after all.

Two Quickies

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I don't have a lot of pictures of my older pets, in part because I didn't have a digital (or perhaps they weren't invented yet). My mother always felt taking pictures of the pets was a waste of film and I was generally busy shooting other things.

In any case, in an effort to do something different for their Pikapet profiles, I figured I'd dress up the few pictures I do have.

And since I sent Diamond to the beach, no reason Phantom couldn't go as well!

The glasses are from Gretchen at Gretchen's Paw Prattle, the I otherwise used the Pam Lafors Designs' Beachnick Mini Kit and Oceans by Butterfly kit. A couple of pieces of eight are from Digital Freebies' ArrrMatey kit.


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ArrrMatey also converted Tavi into the Dread Pirate Tavi, although I should point out that being the coward she is, she probably would scare herself in this get up.

Avast there and plot a course to port! She's got treasure to seek!

I guess I could piratize Samson next...

Trixie the Destroyer

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I don't think Trixie is anything like she is portrayed online. She seems - judging from pictures, like a fairly nice, ordinary and lovable feline. Unless of course you put some ribbons or feathers in front of her.

Trixie is a 2 year old domestic shorthair. She was 9 months old and being held for adoption at the local vet's office. Her cuteness won the heart of a dog loving couple who returned the day after Christmas to take her to her home. Aside from Ebony, a 14-year-old mut, she shares her home with a year year old Albino Leopard Gecko, who fascinates her to no end.

I figured I'd do a few of my Pikapet friends for a change.



When she's not being cute and cuddly, Trixie bankrolls her ribbon and feather fetish by being a professional night club dancer.

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I used Raspberry Road Designs' Seventies Stylin' kit for this, a rather odd freebie that reminds me uncomfortably of this house I visited in New York with Beannie and Anna. It somehow works with Trixie's coloring. I doubt her house looks anything like this.

The lettering came from Free Digital Scrapbooking.

Naptime

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The optional theme for this weekend's Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos is "naptime", something which I figured couldn't be too hard to put together for any feline.

This uses the Spring Fling kit from Digital Freebies - again with the blue and purple scheme. You'd think I'd be sick of it by now, but...

PB&J (And George)

The cats of PB&G Is My Favorite are a themed set, all of them having Disney related names. They make their homes in Port Huron Michigan and share the house with George, who is an Airedale Terrier.


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First up is Pearl. Pearl replaced Prudy on the PB&J team, after Purdy when to the Rainbow Bridge on September 1, 2005. A check of Petfinder.com sent located a shelter with a bunch of ladycat kittens. There were many to chose from and only one right one, and they knew her right away. This little Tortoiseshell like playing the yard and with her toys, cuddling with her mom and sleeping in a Kitty Cup and digging in the blankets.

A Tough A** Torti, she also enjoys beating up on her brothers.

Pearl was named for the Octopus in Finding Nemo.


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Bert is the Tuxi in the family, He was named the chimeysweep in Mary Poppins. He was adopted from the same agency that Basil, who'd gone to the Bridge, came from. One of pair, he was named Tango by the agency.

He is a good jumper, likes to go inside and outside, enjoys playing (and sleeping) with George as well as his brother and sister. He enjoys a good drink or two out of the ater faucet.


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Jake is the attack tabby of the group, a part feral Maine Coon who takes his duties seriously, attacking anything with feathers as well as his sister Pearl. He doesn't like George at all.

He was found as kitten was taken home to foster, but by the end of the weekend, had found a permanent spot on the team. Since they already at the P and the B cats, they realized if they named him something that started with a J, they could have a sandwich.

Jake is the seagull in the Rescuers Down Under, and so he got his name and became one of the founding members of Team PB&J.


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Despite the obviously male sounding name, George is a ladydog. She likes to go out in the snow and play and enjoys a good game of Tug of War with her rope pull. She has a fenced in back yard to run in and lots of kitties to play with.

She loves all the kitties, but Bert is the only one that loves her back. Pearl likes to put the smack down on George, while Jake prefers to stay as far aways as possible.

Airedales are known as the "Kings of the Terriers" but poor George seems to be the Pauper Pup in Port Huron, not even rating her own Dogster Page. It's gotta be tough on a woofie, playing second fiddle to a trio of cats, but George knows her place.

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I used a freebie kit named Gianna from Secondhand Angel which I found on Digifree. It's an interesting kit as it uses bottle caps instead of flowers. The colors are what drew me to it. Patty at SHA has been designing her own kits since January of 2008 and I have to say she does a very good job as the quality of this set is as good as any of the purchased sets I've used.

Her files are created to 200 dpi, which saves on file size and also make the downloads quick. Check out her stuff.

The images were created to 8 x 10 size and suitable for printing.

Aloha

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This is Diamond's idea of surfing...no water involved.

The Aloha kit is a soon-to-be-retired piece from Digital Freebies (Yes, I spend way to much time shopping there). Strangely enough, for a kit that is supposed to be Hawaii themed, it lacks in flowers, so I so I supplemented it with elements from the Oceans by Butterfly Kit.

Kon

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Kon is Sly's brother and best bud. While Sly has white on him, Kon is solid black.

He was originally named Congo, but they felt Kon suited him better, He loves cuddling, kicking around with (and kicking around) Sly, and chips. Kon loves chips!

Kon has is own blog at No Chips for Kon, but you'll find a lot of things about him on Sly Likes Things as well.

The companion page to the one on Sly, this also utilizes DC Designs' Strong Shoes kit from Digital Freebies. The Alpha is from Free Digital Scrapbooking.

Sly

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Sly likes things. Lately he's been teaching us about plants. His full name is Sylvester and aside from Sly, he also goes by SlyGuy, Weasel, Buddy, Sneak, Meeeeeeeeh, and "Hey!"

He likes Chicken Treats, feather toys, warm napping spots, leaping, and tunneling under the bedcovers. When he grows up, he wants to be a Panther.

Sly may like things, but he loves Skittles the Huntress, who owns the key to his heart. His best buddy is his brofur Kon.

You can find Sly at Sly Likes Things.

I used Digital Freebies' Strong Shoes kit on this, it's one of my favorites. I also used it for the the pieces on Diego, Theo and Thompson. Hopefully I've managed different looks despite using the same pieces parts.

The lettering is from Free Digital Scrapbooking which offers some very useful basic pieces, including Alphas.

Lethal Weapon

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When Diamond is not busy being a cute cat, she amuses herself by assassinating small animals - birds, rats, mice, voles and snakes are some of the things that have fallen to her fangs and claws. Here, she takes a out a rat.

And yes, I appreciate her efforts. Rats in my house are NOT cute. I do not wish to put them back outside because they'll only come inside again. They are better off dead.

I used the Arrrmatey kit from Digital Freebies for this as it had a dark and deadly feel to it.