EtsyMetal blog carnival, Pets!

Welcome to the EtsyMetal blog carnival

Blog carnival is about a group of our members sharing their experience on

a common topic: "Pets"

I love this months topic as I have a lot of pets! 

They are not everyone's cup of tea but I have 10 rats.  I did have 15 at one point too, it's quite a funny story.  So when my partner and I moved to France I decided I would like 2 pet ratties, I have had them before and they are great fun, so we got to little ones called Bella and Bo (who are now in ratty heaven, RIP little ones).  

We then decided we would like 2 more to add as we were getting this BIG cage, so off we went to get them and my partner says, "ohh I really want that big black one too!" I said okay, so we came away with 3.  Two days later The 'big black one' gave birth to 10, yes 10! Of course we didn't know she was pregnant and me being me I couldn't give them away so we kept them all, 15 in total.

Here are some pics

Bella

All the babies a couple of days old

8 days old

Here they are at 4 weeks

Unfortunately we have recently lost 3 of the babies who are now over a year old, to illnesses and we now have 10.  We had 5 girls and 5 boy rat babies which meant we had to get all the boys neutered and they are now huge! I must take some new pictures.

This year in January we welcomed another baby into the family, our little Yorkie puppy called 'Brutus'

He is the coolest dog ever, here are a couple of pics.

A very young Brutus

As he is now.

I hope you enjoyed meeting my pets, take a look at other participating members of

the EtsyMetal team blogs and meet their pets too :)

 Laney (silentgoddess) 

Beth Cyr 

 2Roses 

 Evelyn Markasky 

 Erin Austin

 Rebecca Bogan 
 Victoria Takahashi/Experimetal
Cynthia Del Guidice 

2011 Recap

I like to try and do a yearly recap of all that is happened, I think it is fun to look back and remember what has happened over the past year.

January

This was a pretty cool month, I turned 30 and my mum organized an amazing surprise party for it.  As we live in France she had arranged for my sister Dani and her boyfriend Mike to come over as a surprise and it was amaaaaaaazing.  Now I will be 31 in 13 days and I am not sure it will be as good as last years celebrations :)

February

In February I joined Macro Mondays on Flickr, every week there is a theme and you have to take a Macro shot using the theme.  I only did it for a couple of weeks but I would like to get into it again as it's a really good way to challenge yourself.

I was alo nominated for the stylish blogger award! ;)

March

I really started to explore working with sheet metals this month and I was practicing my saw piercing using copper.  This was when I started getting addicted to the jewellery saw!

I also found this surprised kitty!

April
April was a pretty funny month as we bought a new large cage for our 2 rats Bella and Bo.  We then decided we wanted a couple more ratties to add to the family so we went off to the pet shop.  We were only going to get 2 and then Dom decided he wanted this other big black rat so we bought her too.  2 days later she gave birth to 10 babies, it was a bit of a shock at first but we kept therm all and got the 5 boys neutered so they could all live together happily. :)

May
This month I was moving forward creatively and made more first all sterling post earrings which I had soldered all by myself!  This is something relatively new to me so I was happy I had cracked the process.

June
Busy as ever this month with the cake toppers and it was scorching weather over here in France.

July
My poor old girl Bo passed away this month, it was really sad as we went to the U.K for a week and she died while we were away.  She got a bad case of mites and unfortunately just didn't recover.  RIP Bo Bo!

August
In August we decided were going to move apartments so the search was beginning!

September
Packing! and not much else :S  We also lost another ratty, RIP little Dora :(

October
We moved to an awesome house on October 1st, much bigger than our previous tiny hole of an apartment.  I actually really hate moving as we have done it sooo many times over the last couple of years but hopefully we will be in this place for a while.

November
More house sorting, oh and we decided to get a puppy, more on that later :)

December
We had a great Christmas this year, we hosted Christmas dinner and my sister and her partner were here for the festivities! Their friends also came over on boxing day from the U.K so we all had a great week.  Topped off with and amazing and funny New Years Eve in Basel watching the fireworks.

Hope you all had a great year, heres to 2012!

Updated ratty pics

My baby ratties are now 4 weeks old and have totally changed, they are super cute but now look like ratties :)

Here are a couple of pics of the cuties:

Cuuuuute!

Rat Babies!

As promised here are a couple of pics of the new babies, official head count is 10, so I now have 15 rats!  Let the fun begin!

 

All 10 babies

A Big Surprise!

If you read this blog regularly you will probably have figured out that I have a couple of pet rats, Bella and Bo.  Well we decided to buy them a new BIG cage and buy 2 more rats also, we went to get them on Saturday and Dom decided he wanted a 3rd one as he liked the look of this black baby.

We left the pet shop with 3 new ratties on Staurday and this morning I woke up to a lot of squeaking, I look in the cage and find a pile of rat babies! One of out new ratties was pregnant and had given birth :S
I think they are about 8 babies, so I go from having 2 to 13!

Here are a couple of pics of their new home and some pics of the new pups will come soon :)