{"id":33329,"date":"2024-12-08T17:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33329"},"modified":"2024-12-08T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:38:20","slug":"im-not-saying-were-skint-since-i-left-my-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/im-not-saying-were-skint-since-i-left-my-job\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Not Saying We’re Skint Since I Left My Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

But for Christmas we’re crafting Christmas ornaments made from my cat’s fur.<\/p>\n

Singular. Because we have four black cats and Chimera.<\/p>\n

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That’s him from some years ago. Now he’s a big older cat who’s constantly shedding white fur.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, I brushed him and rolled the resulting fur around in my hands until it made a ball. And then I tossed it, and the cats thought it was a cat toy, so they chased it.<\/p>\n

So I decided I would make a Christmas ornament out of similar balls.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks of brushing later, I have.<\/p>\n

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Oh, how I made light of the book Crafting with Cat Hair<\/em> eleven years ago<\/a> when I said:<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not something I\u2019m going to try. So don\u2019t think I\u2019m spoiling Christmas tipping my hand that I looked through this book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not Christmas in 2013. But Christmas in 2024? Yes.<\/p>\n

Basically, it’s three felted balls of cat fur. I’ve run a wire through them to keep them together (looping the bottom flat and the top rounded for a Christmas tree hook), two toothpicks for arms, and pins cut down to size for the eyes and mouth.<\/p>\n

So there’s a good reason why it looks like there’s hair or fur on my drill bit, officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But for Christmas we’re crafting Christmas ornaments made from my cat’s fur. Singular. Because we have four black cats and Chimera. That’s him from some years ago. Now he’s a big older cat who’s constantly shedding white fur. A couple of weeks ago, I brushed him and rolled the resulting fur around in my hands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33332,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33329\/revisions\/33332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}