The BBHQ Midweek News Round-Up ~ Fudge's Supurr Floof - Look At My Tail, Smooch Loves His Basket, Parsley - Draw Me Like One of The French Cats, and Melvyn's Wearing This Weeks Top Pick Bandana

Epic Wednesday Greetings Furiends

Welcome to the BBHQ midweek news round-up!

How's your week going? 

And OMC, it's Valentine's Month, so if mew're wondering, yes, we are sharing the love all month. Can't mew tell??? MOL

It's also The P.A.'s birthday today. So, Happy Birthday to The P.A.!

The weather has been cold, but there have been a few instances of sunshine; see Smooch below. This week, we are planting some bare-root roses. Mew may remember last year when we planted a rather special one called Raspberry Ripple. Well, the P.A. got two more of that variety and two new ripple ones called Oranges and Lemons, so we're supurr excited to see how they bloom. 

Quite a few jobs are happening in the BBHQ garden at the moment, including getting some catnip seeds planted before the month is out! MOL  

Anyhoo, let's look at what the heathens have been up to this week.

First up in the news 

Fudge's Supurr Floof - Look At My Tail

Fudge was inspecting the catnip pot in the courtyard, and he was very sad to report that after several bountiful years, this plant had finally given up the ghost. Hence, the reason for getting the catnip seeds started early this year.

Well, it wouldn't be BBHQ with copious amounts of catnip growing everywhere; plus, where would all the village cats go to have an epically epic time? MOL

Next up in the news

 Smooch Loves His Basket

Smooch was enjoying his basket under the gazebo the other morning. The sun was shining, the birds were tweeting, and all was supurr fluffy at BBHQ!

In other news...

 Parsley ~ Draw Me Like One of The French Cats

If mew remember last year, on one of the Photo Fails posts, Fudge, Amber and Pandora took up the challenge of:

Draw Me Like One Of Your French Girls

And the other evening, we were quite surprised to find Parsley in the same pose! MOL

Although, Parsley is using a different terminology, which is: 

Draw Me Like One of The French Cats

Same difference, dude! MOL

And finally, this week

Melvyn's Modelling The Top Bandana Pick

Melvyn's modelling the #4 pick this week, as voted for by mew!

It was a bit chaotic on the catwalk this week, but not as much as other times! MOL

We got another mysterious postcard from the Bahamas again, so we are pretty certain that W.D.G. is wintering there! MOL

Check out his videos on your preferred social media channel:

TikTok

Instagram

YouTube

Which one is your favourite this week? 

Which one should he model next?

Here's the Valenitne's Bandana Selection.

The February Valentine's Collection:

1. Multi-coloured hearts with lilac fringing

2. Red hearts with red fringing

3.  White hearts with glitter ribbon

4. Red heart with red tassels

Tell us your top pick for next week in the comments!

That's us done for today. Amber will be back on Friday with another meowvellous book, and if mew missed any other posts, here are the links:

 Fudge's Selfie

Crafting with Cats ~ Valentine's Part 1

Crafting with Cats ~ Valentine's Part 2

Crafting with Cats ~ Valentine's Part 3

Amber's Latest Book Review

Check out the latest episodes of The Purrminator, as tomorrow we'll be back with Chapter Twelve in Melvyn's epically epic supurr exciting origin story:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Wishing mew a pawesome day, and remember to always...

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

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**VALENTINE'S CRAFTING RE-RUN**PART 3** Crafting With Cats Valentine's Special ~ How We Made The Valentine's Cottage Cat House ~ Video

Welcome to

Supurr Furbulous Greetings Pawesome Pals

Thanks for joining us for Part 3 of our supurr fun Crafting with Cats re-run. We thought we'd get a head-start on the Valentine's Crafting, as the big day is just under two weeks away, so if mew want to make anything we share over the next couple of weeks, mew should have plenty of time! 

If mew missed Part I, click here to see how we made an epic heart-shaped crinkle mat, and here for Part II, when we made some epic catnip hearts and kicker toys.

Stay tuned for more epically epic crafty fun!

If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Page and see all our past projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them.  Plus we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.

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**A quick note before we begin**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design, and we share them fur purrsonal/home use only.

  So purrlease do not copy for commercial/resale purrposes.

Copyright ©BionicBasil®

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The Valentine's Cottage

Today we're doing things a little bit differently, instead of step-by-step destructions, we're sharing a video of the entire process... enjoy!

How We Made The Valentine's Cottage Cat House

If for any reason the video doesn't play go here: watch video on youtube

As mew can see The B Team Boys loved it, and there's room for two, if not three inside, although young Melvyn has declared to all who'll listen that it's his cottage, he's put his paw-mark on the deed and he'll rent it out on certain days via the CatBnB netwurk - currencies accepted are:- catnip, wire transfer and treats, preferably Dreamies! MOL

If mew have any questions about construction or anything in the video, feel free to ask in the comments, and we will answer.

Also, do let us know if mew prefer to watch a video or have the step-by-step destructions? Or purrhaps a combo of both?

And finally, tell us what mew think of The Valentine's Cottage Cat House.

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And that furiends furry sadly brings us to the end of today's totally terrific Crafting with Cats post, we do hope mew liked it. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel as we've got lots of videos there, and some of which mew might have not seen before.

Epically crafty purrs, and don't forget to...

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable for any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from the use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

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**VALENTINE'S CRAFTING RE-RUN**PART 2** Crafting With Cats Valentine's Special ~ Catnip Hearts and Kicker Toy and Come Say Hi to Young Melvyn (Melvyn's First Time on The Blog in February 2019)

 Welcome to

Supurr Furbulous Greetings Pawesome Pals

Thanks for joining us for Part 2 of our supurr fun Crafting with Cats re-run. We thought we'd get a head-start on the Valentine's Crafting, as the big day is just under a couple of weeks away, so if mew want to make anything, mew should have plenty of time! 

If mew missed Part 1, click here to see how we made an epic heart-shaped crinkle mat.

Stay tuned for more epically epic crafty fun!

If mew missed any of our previous CWC posts, stop by the Crafting with Cats Page and see all our previous projects, and mew don't have to be an expert in anything to make any of them. Plus, we offer workarounds and no-sew projects for those who don't like to sew.

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**Purrlease Note**

All Crafting with Cats ideas and creations are of our own design, and we share them for purrrsonal/home use only.

  So purrlease do not copy for commercial/resale purposes.

Copyright ©BionicBasil 

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This time we're making 

What Mew Will Need:

Felt squares

Cotton fabric of your choice

Ribbon

Tailor's chalk or similar fabric marker

Scissors

Thread and Needle or Sewing machine

Stuffing/Wadding

And we used lots of homegrown BBHQ catnip and catmint

Optional Cat ~ Parsley was today's Craft Room Snoopervisor

Here's our selection of fabric

Ooooh what purretty colours!

Making The Catnip Hearts

1. Parsley was snoopervising today's session and making sure all Health & Safety protocols were carried out.

2. Cut out a cardboard template of your chosen heart.

3.  Pick which colour felt square and trace 2 x heart outlines. 

4. Repeat No. 3, then cut out hearts and place right sides together.

5. & 6. If mew don't have a sewing machine, that's ok. Mew can hand stitch the hearts together.  We used the sewing machine and left a good inch so we could turn the right sides out.

7. Turn right sides out, and your heart should look something like this.

8.  Get your catnip and stuff to the brim, then hand stitch the last part of the seams together.

Making The Catnip Heart Kicker Toy



1.  Take your chosen fabric, we used this lovely cotton print. Cut a rectangle, mew can make to a size of your choice, though ours is approx 8 x 4 inches.

2.  Fold the rectangle along the long edge [in-half] and sew along the bottom and long edge, either by hand or with a sewing machine. 

3. Turn right side out and get your wadding ready.

4.  Stuff kicker toy, alternating with wadding and then catnip until full.



5.  Cut your ribbon into approx 4 inch lengths and add to top edge, tack in place if mew need to.  Stitch securely along the top edge to fully secure ribbons. 

And mew should now have something like this - some epically epic toys and a crazy cat or two, or maybe even three! MOL



Smooch was loving it!

Here's Melvyn's very first photo on the blog in 2019 - what a cutie! 

Before we go any further, we need to make a quick introduction, my young nephew Melvyn has just moved in so purrlease say hi, mew can see the furrmily resemblance, can't mew? What a cheeky little chap he is! MOL 



Even crotchety Amber got stuck in too.



In total from start to finish, these 3 toys took about 25 mins to make. It would have been quicker but the P.A. couldn't see to thread the needle - PFFFFTTTT - OLD TIMERS!

As mew can see the Valentine's toys were a total hit, the P.A. said she'd never seen so much cat drool and made a note on a post-it to use less potent nip next time - though we promptly ate said post-it note as we really like the extra potent nip! MOL 


And that furriends furry sadly brings us to the end of today's fun Crafting with Cats post, we do hope mew liked it and if mew decide to make your furry own Valentine's toys, we hope mew enjoy them as much as we are still enjoying ours! 

Epically crafty purrs and don't forget to...

Wing Commander Basil & The B Team 

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

Graphics created with paid licence www.canva.com and www.pizap.com

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