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Kitteh Update

Kitteh Update

Speaking of forgetting things (I think I was, at some point. . .)

Alfie and Edgar spent the afternoon at the store adopt-a-thon on Sunday. Unfortunately, since no signs went up and the cats haven’t been in the store for weeks while the new cat area was being constructed, the turnout was low and there were no adoptions. We have them back home, and will try again to get them permanent homes in the next week or two. It does get harder to let them go the longer you have them, but there are so many other cats in need that we have to. I keep reminding the kids that when they’re gone, we’ll get more adorable kittens. I keep reminding myself that, too.

Cool Color Image

Cool Color Image

Lisa at Polka Dot Creations is as fond of playing with colors as I am – maybe moreso. She has a series of posts on creating a color palette, with links to tools, and I figured I’d give it a shot.

Now, she spends a lot more time on flick’r than I do, so I didn’t already have a set of favorite images. Just so I could try making a color palette, I browsed a few garden and landscaping photo pools and randomly favorited a bunch that appealed to me. I used Big Huge Labs to make a mosaic, and then the palette generator that’s down the page a bit, and amazingly enough, it came up with a bunch of the colors I’ve been drawn to lately. Take a look:

pallette.jpg

How cool is that? Lisa has more links to tools on her site, but I’ve wasted enough time already playing around. Later on, I might gather up a few of my own pics and do the same thing to see how well the colors I picked in real life match the colors I picked at random. There has to be some deep psychological meaning behind peoples’ color choices, maybe I’ll look that up one day, too.

Speed Racer!

Speed Racer!

The other day I was trying to remember the words to the “Speed Racer” cartoon’s theme song. I forgot about it until just a few minutes ago, and look what I found on YouTube!!

Just goes to show you how different we are from each other, the Americans and the Japanese. I bet this cartoon was much more interesting before it came to the US, too.