tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33525487172934769602024-03-17T07:23:52.432+00:00Kitty Rambles A LotKitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.comBlogger498125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-30214731441223932442021-09-18T13:03:00.000+01:002021-09-18T13:03:22.822+01:00A Painting Update Since I last posted about painting, it has really taken over my life! I share all my work on my facebook page, and have many pieces for sale and am available for commissions. I don't have a shop currently but I plan to soon!This triptych is 'Yveltal', three 8x8 inch canvasses. £50 for the trio, plus postage.I painted 'Islands' when I was missing the sunshine. It is 30cm x 40cm. It is Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0Grimsby, UK53.567471 -0.08078425.257239212444759 -35.237031317790986 81.877702787555236 35.075463317790984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-49984112475036100422021-06-18T16:22:00.000+01:002021-06-18T16:22:35.327+01:00Introducing Tornado of Sews I'm a big believer in supporting small businesses, especially during these trying times, and even more so when they happen to be run by an absolute babe! Tornado of Sews is my bestie Fal's new business, she makes incredible mixed media embroidery, sells prints and bookmarks of her original art, and is available for commissions too! I've bought an adorable tentacle piece, and also Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-26561859589725719612021-03-13T16:45:00.005+00:002021-03-13T16:45:45.205+00:00Kitty Paints A Lot A couple of months ago I shared my first attempts at painting, and since then I've not stopped! I actually have now set up a Facebook page just for it, and sticking with the naming theme, it is Kitty Paints A Lot. I figured I'd share some of my more recent paintings!This is called a 'kiss pour', made mostly using Dyno paint by Pebeo which are some favourites of mine because of the lovely Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-18534089593692877692021-01-23T20:56:00.002+00:002021-01-23T20:56:38.718+00:00Paint Pouring : My Second Swipe In my last blog I talked about making two paintings as a surprise for my Grandad, I shared one, but not the matching one. The first one I shared here, was done with exactly the same colours as this one, but with white, and this was done with black. My aim was to create a sort of Spring/Autumn diptych, inspired by my Grandma's favourite clothing items. This is Autumn.  Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-10958727668256233502021-01-17T22:12:00.002+00:002021-01-17T22:12:51.531+00:00Paint Pouring : My First Swipe I recently blogged about my new lockdown hobby, acrylic paint pouring, and since then I've been really obsessed with practicing and improving. I bought some new supplies, Pebeo paint as it comes highly recommended and has been on sale at Hobbycraft, Pebeo pouring medium, which is mixed with the paint for a smoother flow, and silicone oil. You use silicone oil to make what are referred to asKitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-73572022463107890542020-12-23T14:00:00.004+00:002020-12-23T14:00:03.501+00:00Original Stitch x Pokémon Company Holiday Surprise Release Original Stitch & The Pokémon Company have a new limited edition product, shirt mini pouches! Their fabrics are always so cute, and I am such a Pokémon fan, that I just had to share these with you.Here is their press release - 'The Pokémon Company & Original Stitch Unbox Holiday Surprise: Limited-Edition Pokémon Shirts Mini-Pouches featuring 251 Pokémon fabricsSAN FRANCISCO &Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-52050228981711046152020-12-12T15:17:00.000+00:002020-12-12T15:17:05.868+00:00AD (Gifted) Original Stitch x Pokémon Company Masks* & Bandanas The lovely folks at Original Stitch have collaborated with the Pokémon Company to produce beautiful shirts, masks*, and bandanas, and they were recently kind enough to send me a few to try out!I got my trust Snorlax teddy to help me model the masks, so you can really appreciate the adorable patterns. There are a huge amount of different prints available, all 151 Kanto Pokémon have Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-57467956847839234232020-11-30T07:00:00.015+00:002020-11-30T07:00:03.656+00:00My New Hobby : Acrylic Paint Pouring With lockdown and the pandemic not ending any time soon, I decided I needed a new hobby. I'd always wanted to get into painting, but wasn't quite sure how I wanted to do it. I knew it would be abstract, realism wasn't something I was going to be able to do, so I started exploring online and discovered paint pouring.First thing I needed was some paint. My bestie Fal is an artist and she Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-21181506510069372492020-11-27T17:25:00.000+00:002020-11-27T17:25:07.521+00:00Original Stitch x POKÉMON CO LTD Mask Release This year has brought with it changes none of us could ever have anticipated, and one of those major changes is wearing face masks in public. Whether you've been trying to match your mask to your outfit, or wearing the most fun and outrageous you can, masks are going to be with us for a good while yet.I was really excited to find out that Original Stitch had collaborated with Pokémon to Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-81646945677513550462020-11-20T09:00:00.001+00:002020-11-20T09:00:06.467+00:00Original Stitch x Pokémon Co Ltd Bandana Release As a rule, I usually see a press release in my inbox, have a quick read, discover it is in no way relevant to me, and bin it. But not today! You know I absolutely adore Pokémon, and a plus size gal, I find myself left out of the cool Pokémon far too often, but bandanas?! Anyone and everyone can enjoy bandanas! I love wearing bandanas in my hair, and when our sweet doggo Ashen was Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-54615190177221284332020-11-04T16:00:00.001+00:002020-11-04T16:00:44.888+00:00Support Small Business This Christmas With lockdown looming, and Christmas on the horizon, it is more important than ever to support small businesses for your shopping this year. Small businesses are essential to our economy, and provide so many jobs to so many people, but have sadly been badly affected by this pandemic. Buying from a small business isn't putting more money into the pocket of some billionaire from a corporationKitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-68318907443896389922020-10-19T10:33:00.001+01:002020-10-19T10:33:18.653+01:00Snag Tights Halloween Review As a 5ft 11 plus size gal, tights have always been one of my ultimate items that it is just impossible to buy that fit. I remember years ago when I worked in a shop having to wear them every day and I had to do the whole knickers over the tights trick to attempt to keep them up, they never fit properly, they seemed to ladder when I looked at that, and they managed to simultaneously droop Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-33818919929942965352020-09-07T11:59:00.002+01:002020-09-07T11:59:48.908+01:00Saying Goodbye to Patches On Saturday, we very suddenly and unexpectedly lost our little old lady cat Patches. She lived to the amazing age of 22, and it was an honour to be on of her humans. I really thought when the apocalypse came, all that would be left once the smoke cleared would be cockroaches, Nokia 3310s, and Patches.Patches had been sat on my knee, then went charging off to attack my handbag, and went intoKitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-58258211691422409762020-08-25T09:14:00.003+01:002020-08-25T09:14:34.002+01:00Betty's Beasties Colouring Book When my lovely friend Betty Brown announced their new colouring book I was super hyped! Her last colouring book was an absolute delight, super diverse and full of a bunch of bad ass babes, so I had no doubt this one would be equally as cool. This book is NSFW, so warning ahead for previews!This time around, we have Betty's Beasties, all drawn in Betty's signature pin up style, but focusing Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-86434922608392278372020-08-08T19:54:00.001+01:002020-08-08T19:54:24.628+01:00AD Gifted : FoodHubAD - full disclosure, FoodHub kindly sent me a voucher for their app to write a blog post about them, I was more than happy to write about them because I already use their app! It's a Saturday night, so who can really be bothered to cook dinner? It's the weekend and it's time for a treat, so FoodHub is the answer! I've been using the FoodHub app for a few months now after my favourite local Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0Grimsby, UK53.567471 -0.08078425.257239212444759 -35.237031317790986 81.877702787555236 35.075463317790984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-76572800891166749732020-07-21T07:00:00.000+01:002020-07-21T07:00:05.684+01:00A Curly Girl Method Update : 3 Years+ On
Consistently one of the things I get asked about most, and have searched for on my blog, is the Curly Girl Method, so I figured as I last did an update in September 2017 after 6 months, I should probably do another update!
So to say my hair has changed drastically is an understatement. I used to think I had curly hair. As these before photo will show you, what I thought was a good hair day, Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-12869615105238732662020-07-16T07:00:00.000+01:002020-07-16T07:00:08.996+01:00The Enchanted Garden
Supporting local small business is more important than ever with the pandemic and economic downturn, so I wanted to share my favourite Grimsby based florist, The Enchanted Garden.
We've used The Enchanted Garden as a company several times, in both sad times and for their fun workshops, and every time we've used them they've been fantastic. The photos above are photos they took of the Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-64655404146125487142020-07-13T07:00:00.000+01:002020-07-13T07:00:01.376+01:00Lockdown Favourites
In the spirit of maybe sort of getting back into blogging, I figured I'd share some of my favourite things I've been enjoying during lockdown.
Crafty Glass London
The Mountain Range
We ordered my Mum and Stu's Mum Mother's Day gifts from Crafty Glass London, and I've previously bought gifts for my Nanny and Grandad from them as well. Their products are always beautiful, arrive so Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-20751180961520741232020-06-25T07:00:00.000+01:002020-06-25T07:00:03.245+01:00Our Garden Makeover
During lockdown, like many people, my husband Stu and I started a big house project, and we've totally over hauled our whole back garden. We are very lucky to have a large back garden (thank you Grimsby house prices), but we aren't the most green fingered of people. Bar my love of succulents, we wanted something that was easier on the upkeep than what we had because it required a lot of weeding Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-66166705180095121822020-06-23T07:00:00.000+01:002020-06-23T07:00:00.992+01:00Where Have I Been?
You might have noticed that over the last year I essentially vanished from my blog, bar the odd post. It's not the first time I've done it, but it has been for the longest period of time.
2019 was rough. Really rough. Stu and I lost far too many family members, and we had to attend more funerals than any family should have to attend in such a short time. Within 4 days last year we Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-41038056496466916382020-03-10T14:41:00.001+00:002020-03-10T14:41:19.326+00:00Stu is Shaving his Head for Charity!
It's been a while hasn't it? I'm not sure quite where my blog is or isn't going at the moment, but I wanted to share something that is happening on Saturday. My husband Stu is shaving his head for the charity Mummy's Star in memory of his late cousin Alys. Stu has had long hair for the last 13 years, I've never seen anything but photos of him with short hair, and this Saturday, the whole Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-9601500513551869222019-10-23T07:00:00.000+01:002019-10-23T07:00:11.615+01:00Review : Snag Tights
You know when you see people raving over something and you think it can't possibly be that good, so you avoid it for fear of being disappointed? This has been me with Snag Tights. Every blogger adores them. I've seen my Facebook friends gushing about them. But they can't be that good because they just can't be. When they released a pair of Halloween tights I decided now was finally the time to Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-37461933260312142252019-10-01T07:00:00.000+01:002019-10-02T09:43:21.982+01:00AD* Navabi : Woke up to the sound of pouring rain
Every gal's wardrobe needs a few good black dresses. A truly good black dress is high quality, the darkest of blacks, soft, comfy, doesn't need ironing, and is super versatile. The kind folks at Navabi sent me this gorgeous Navabi dress which certainly fits the bill! This is the Annalisa jersey knot front dress, it retails for £81 and is available in up to a size 30. It's super Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-79268902899313930602019-07-30T07:00:00.000+01:002019-07-30T07:00:04.758+01:00Prophecy Girl Pins
It's always sad when you discover an indy company just as they are closing down. I found Prophecy Girl weeks before they closed down unfortunately. They sold a variety of nerdy clothing, patches and pins, no clothing in plus sizes, but patches and pins are something I am always after! With a name like Prophecy Girl, I went on the hunt for Buffy the Vampire Slayer inspired pins and I was not Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352548717293476960.post-17020901945583946692019-07-16T07:00:00.000+01:002019-07-16T07:00:07.483+01:00How I Edit My Blog Photos
One of the common questions I see on blogger groups is people asking how they can edit their blog photos to look more professional. I don't have access to anything fancy, no Photoshop or expensive programme (some of my old blog photos were edited with Photoshop but when I got a new laptop I lost my copy of Photoshop). What I use is available as an app on a computer, and is available through the Kitty Morrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15160062056865435941noreply@blogger.com1