Missing mommy

    Leo here. Mommy was gone a WHOLE WEEK at the end of November. 

Then she was gone a WHOLE WEEK  at the end of December. 

 Then she left at the end of January and she is still not back. 

 

    This is Andrea's husband Greg. I don't know how to tell Leo, Glitter and Cashmere that their mommy went to be with our old cat Star up in heaven.  She passed away 2/16/2024 around 6 am holding my hand with a crochet kitty on her chest. One last plug please consider donating to Winnie's Wish in Andrea's memory.  

 

Thank you and God bless you all.

Merry Christmas!!

 Merry Christmas Dear Friends and Furry Friends!!

For those of you who were looking for the Winnie's Wish Holiday Auction I usually have in November/December, I apologize. I was in and out of the hospital and still sick at home so I just was not up to it. 

I do plan on having it sometime in the new year. possibly for Valentines day but that's not set in stone. Depends on how I feel. 

So sorry to have been missing in action here for a long time. It's been an uphill battle.. 

But we're still here and we still love all of you! 

And we are hoping you have the best holiday and a wonderful New Year!!

Hugs and purrs,

Andrea and Leo and Glitter and Cashmere

Find Us Again

 

Leo here! Well, mom finally had to make a new facebook account. That nigerian scammer apparently has more right to her old one than she does. After all, she only had it for around 15 years, this guy has had it for a whole couple of weeks! 

Anyway, she gave up and created a new account, you can find her under the name Andrea P Clanish https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095283602115

 

To celebrate being back in the world of the living she took funny filter pictures... I said she could only post one and I had to look cute. I'm not sure that one qualifies... 

 

Hope to see you all soon, loves you all!!! 

PS. does this qualify as a Sunday Selfie??

I've Been Hacked!

 I follow many of you on Facebook and perhaps some of you follow me under Andrea Clanish. My account was taken over by a scammer and he's messaging my friends and family now trying to get them to click something or to fall for the trick of getting a hold of their accounts that I fell for. Please do not fall for it! 

I swear to you I am too smart to fall for scammers yet this one got me. I'm so mad I could spit nails! He pretended to be my nephew in law trying to get back control of his account and asked me to help and foolishly I did not confirm by calling him first. But he was using Twin2's husbands account so I could see our previous conversations right there! Argh! I feel so stupid for falling for this! 

As it stands, I have not been able to convince facebook that that is not me. I thought I had it, but something went wrong and now they will only accept a code send to "my" email, which is not mine! it's the scammers email! Not going to help.. There is no person you can talk to on facebook, so I'm kind of stuck at this point. 

I will probably have to make a new account, which ticks me off because that's been my account for almost 20 years! Like I said, spitting mad... But if you get a friend request from a new me, it's probably me.. 

I'm sorry if this has inconvenienced any of you or if you've been hacked because of it. Please be safe out there, the scammers are everywhere! 

The kitties are good! Leo has a cold and Glitter developed allergies, but we're dealing with it. They say Mew and they love you all!! So do I! 

Here's some old pictures so you remember how cute they are!

Cashmere in front, Glitter in back

Leo being silly!

Leo's 12th Gotcha Day!

 12 years! I cannot believe it's been 12 years since we drove down to get Leo from Chrystal and Winnie's Wish! 

 

I still can't believe Greg said we could drive 8 hours to get a kitty! And Chrystal drove many hours to meet us nearly half way! 

 

Here's the first picture I ever took of my baby

 

Leo: Uh.. hey... um, does I needs help or is these gonna be ok kinda peoples? Not sure if I should be freakin' out, but I is.. a little.. sorta. 

 (wow, the difference in the phone camera quality!)

I'm gonna try to put up an update about Leo's health and maybe mine, at a later point but for now:

Happy Gotcha Day Sweet Boy!!!

I loves you!!!

 

 

Does this count as his first Sunday Selfie? :) 

 

For fun, here's a link to my first blog post talking about the trip home with him if you are interested: 

Home: The First Days 

EDIT: whoops, that's the second post! here's the first: 

Face To Face

 

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Glitter's Sunday Selfie

 

Glitter: Hello everyone! Hope you're having a lovely, fluffy Sunday, like I am! 

Oh we've missed you all! We won't go into any of it, but there's been a lot keeping us from blogging.  Frankly, we're tired of hearing it from ourselves too, so we won't bore you! 

We are trying, and we are peeking in at a lot of you when we can. So even if we don't comment, know we're there, cheering you on in everything you do! 

Love you all!

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Auction Result Time!

Leo: Is this thing on? Hello? I has an announcement to make! Can you hear me now?? 

 

The auction was over a while back, I know, but mommy had a harder time fining a few peoples and getting everything mailed out. We's all sorry it has taken so long!! But I also think it's worth waiting for! oooo you're gonna love it! 

We waited until Miss Chrystal announced it over at her Daily Dose blog, go ahead over there if you want to hear if from her first! Then come back here after, we'll wait!  

Waiting.. 

Waiting.. 

Hmmm hmm hmmmm HMmmmMM hmmm 

Waiting.... 

Are they back yet? 

Can you still hear me? 

Oh boy, this is gonna rock!! 

Now, this is combined with the Raffle moneys and a few pre-auction hometown sales of some heavier things that we're glad no one had to pay postage for, and of course, our daddy's rounding up!

Ready for the GRAND TOTAL?!!?

Da da DA!

$2500!!!!!

Can you believe it?? 

Whoo hoo! We is so very very happy! The Wishers can get lots of noms (that's foods for you non cat speaking folks) and litters and (even though no one likes it) ebil V.E.T visits with that! 

YOU ALL ROCK!!!!! 

Yes, YOU! 

Every bid, every share, every visit to the auction helped us get here! And every extra sent, and straight donations, and extra help for postage, all helps!!! And we cannot thank you enough!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!! 

Nope, still not big enough. So please consider yourself head bumped/buddy bumped by all the Wishers and all of us!! We loves you!!!!

Blanket Raffle Winner Announced!

We have a winner! Let's go to the video!

 

 

We had 22 entries for the Winnie's Wish Blanket Raffle, that makes $110 raised for Winnie's Wish! 

Yay and thank you all!

And a huge congratulations to Midori Hanus on winning it!!! As I said in the video, we'll have that sent out to you as soon as possible! 

Thank you!!

I will have auction totals soon, I hope. Still waiting on the last few stragglers to get in touch with me about their wins. 

If you think you won something and haven't heard, please check your spam folder or email me right away! anniclan AT aol.com

Thank you all, love you all! You rock at helping the kitties!!

Mancat Cave Monday

 Baby it's cold outside! You can tell it's cold because the the Mancat is in the Mancat Cave! And he's got his tail wrapped around his nose. So yeah, cold! 

Leo: Not coming out until spring... or you turn the heat up, whichever comes first.

Hate to tell ya, Leo, the heat has been turned up! Guess I'll see you in spring? 

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In case you didn't see over the weekend, we have extended the Raffle for the Kitty Blanket because of internet issues. 

 

Please share! And get your 'tickets' soon, it's over on Wednesday now! 

Details on the Winnie's Wish Auction Page. 

Every ticket sold goes to the kitties of Winnie's Wish!

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The Winnie's Wish Auction is over, and we're trying to tabulate up the totals. There are a few people who won items who have not responded to emails. If you have won and haven't heard from us, please check your spam folder! Or email us at annicaln AT aol.com. Soon please, we want to get the kitties their auction money before Christmas! 

If anyone knows the following people, please let them know to contact us: 

marisaboysen

susan.lee.allen

Sarah Gaido sarahzaprincess

 

Thank you! 

 

Raffle Extension

 Oh my gosh, what a week! I announced the Raffle a week ago and haven't posted since? How does that happen? 

Well for one, we had internet issues for a few days. Someone took out a transformer down the street from us and they took their sweet time fixing it. Ok, that's unfair because they were out there right away, it just took them way way way longer than expected. And when it did come back, it was spotty at best. 

Right while I was trying to finish up the auction and start the raffle! 

 

Even with that, I can't believe it's been a whole week! I don't even have a picture for caturday art! 

 

So I hope this doesn't seem unfair to those who have got their tickets to the raffle already, but I think I need to extend it until Tuesday to make up for the missing time.

 

 Please, please, share the raffle banners below. And Please join in! There's still time to get your hands on this wonderful kitty-ful blanket! 

Every bit of it, every single ticket, goes to help the kitties of Winnie's Wish! 

Full details on the Winnie's Wish Auction Site.

 

 

Thank you!! And again, I'm sorry for the delay and the non-posting!

Caturday Art and Last Auction Day

 I love Caturday Art! I love playing with the pictures to see what comes out good and what just looks weird. I should have saved some of the weird ones! I didn't so I hope you agree that these are good. 

I used Lunapic on Glitters Wordless Wednesday picture. 

Here's Christmas Needlework

 

 

 

Watercolor

 

 

 

Fantasy

 

 

 

Candy

 

 

And here's the original

Hope you liked them and we hope you are having a wonderful caturday!

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Today, at midnight in fact, the Winnie's Wish Auction Ends! Get your last bids in before it's all over! 

 

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Hold your hat! Because there's something new! 

For one week only we are having a raffle for a lovely crocheted cat blanket! I think in spite of the horrible pictures I have you can still see how really special this is! 

Read the full details on the auction site!

The auction is still there after the raffle post!

Be sure to get your 'tickets' in before next Saturday!

 

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Flashback Friday

I hope you enjoy today's Flashback Friday post. 

It is from October 23, 2015 and was titled:  

 

The Weekend is Here!

 

Hey Leo!

♪♫ I can't hear you.. ♪♫

Leo.. I know you can hear me..

Sorry, busy taking a bath... I'll get back to you.. maybe.. when you lose that camera..

Leo The Chinese Lion!

Rut Ro.. she used my full name.. that's trouble..  ♪What Mommy?♪

It's Friday, I wanted you to wish your friends a happy weekend.

Weekend? Yay!!! Have a good weekend everyone!!

There's my good boy! And look! A cute little happy face fang!

 

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Guess what??

 

ONE MORE DAY FOR 

THE WINNIE'S WISH HOLIDAY AUCTION!

That's right, one more day to get your bids in! It ends at Midnight Saturday, EST. 

And then you know what? You wont have to listen to me harp about it any more, lol! 

Oh but I do it for a good reason! Honest I do. There are over 30 kitties in the Winnie's Wish Rescue and Sanctuary. These are kitties that have no where else to go, they, for various reason, cannot get homes. But they have a home with Chrystal in the Winnie's Wish cat house and various other areas around her kennels and office. No one is crowded, no one has to be with cats or people they don't like. 

Because of us, you and me and other donors, they have food and litter and vet care and all the things kitties need. 

That's why I go on about it; the kitties need is great, so my need to shout from the rooftops is great too. 

So for one more day! Please please pop over to the auction if you can. Make a donation if you can. Send a Wish List item if you can. And if you can't do any of that, then please, please share the auction on your blog,  facebook, instagram, twitter or whatever social media you use! Lets make this last day the biggest one yet! 

Thank you! We really do appreciate every one of you!!

 

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LATE BREAKING NEWS! 

 

The Raffle for the Winnie's Wish Crochet Cat Blanket starts TODAY!! 

Details on the auction site, but the auction is still there too! Auction follows the post about the raffle.

 

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