Lily and I just moved to Boston last week so it’s been a little quiet on the blog front + will probably continue to be so until we get a bit more settled here 
For now enjoy this sexy little video by CSS my new favorite brazilian electronica band!
Filed under: Cats, just silly, obsession, video | Tags: garfield, lasagna Cat
Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? This is even one step further in the ridiculous-o-meter. I don’t even have words to describe, just watch:
I recommend going to the site, Lasagna Cat and watching all the videos. I love the tagline “One man lives with the burden of making the entire world laugh everyday.” So true, so very true. Thanks to Jezebel for pointing this out and changing my life.
Filed under: Cats, obsession | Tags: cat, mandy, sappymoosetree.com, stuff on my cat
My friend Mandy has a silly little kitty name Noodle, AKA Nu, AKA the Nu Nu Monster. Nu had a rough start, she was found in a car and lost a toe + part of her tail but now she’s doing super well and she’s an internet celebrity:
Congrats Nu, I always knu you’d be famous. Sniff.
Sorry, it’s going to be caturday for the rest of the day (it’s normally saturday i think but I’m going to be out of town) because cat stuff just keeps showing up in my inbox/bloglines/etc.
You may have seen this and this, so here we go…part 3!
Those of us who have cats are giggling in companionship to this poor man, we have all been there. Marilyn, my calico, loves to jump dramatically (and clumsily) onto my hands while I’m typing and sit there. She then acts bitchy if I try to move my hands from under her and god forbid I try to TYPE! My computer desk is a big old fashion number with a roll down front, pull out space for my keyboard and my scanner/printer/scale/lots of junk resides on top. Maxine is a big fan of sitting on top so she can ride the
printer +/or scanner. It’s cool (other than cat hair occasionally getting into the printer!!!) until she jumps down onto the wobbly keyboard area and I race to grab my coffee from falling onto the keyboard. Good times.
I’m reckoning that the non-cat owners are staring at the video thinking “THIS IS WHY I DON’T HAVE A CAT!” but I’d like to note that Lily can have just as many silly/pesky habits. No need to get into them today, but she does steal the whole bed/couch/office chair + sticks her butt in my face. Yay pets!
Filed under: Cats, Pictures by Tess | Tags: cat, flickr, maxine, silly, suprise
Oh boy, that darn cat has a thing for the bicycle!!
It always amuses me how and what people find funny/interesting on flickr. Even more interesting is what FLICKR deems interesting. As it stands Maxine is #37 on Explore right now as far as “more interesting picture” of Monday July 14 goes. Pretty funny!
And for kicks, lets go through some of Maxine’s classic moments. See previous post for another bicycle pic, and here’s another:
Here’s Maxine on the drafting table (don’t you keep yours on the porch??) near the bicycle:
Scared of my hat:
And pretty much the most classic of all:
That darn cat, she’s sure got that suprise/eyes wide open look going for her!
Enough cat talk, back to regular posting of stupid videos tomorrow yay!
Filed under: Bananas, businessy stuff, Cats, obsession, want | Tags: Bananas, cat, crafty bastards, miss tess, misstess.com, tess
This is going to be short and sweet (and totally x-posted to my other blogs). I really should be sleeping but instead I’m dwelling and thinking of new projects.
Several months ago I took this picture:
And I have it in my head that I must make a real grbaha out of fake bananas. So that I can wear it. Or have it. Or whatever. So then I started searching online for fake fruits…and the cheapest I found were on ebay, but I really don’t need to spend 50 dollars on a ridiculous amount of fake fruit.
SOooo….my question to you, the peoples of the internet, is do you have any faux fruit laying around? Bananas would be the most awesome (I have a fixation on them) but any fruit would do. I can trade, or pay shipping, or work out some sort of agreement. I’d just rather go for the trade/barter route since I’m supposed to be saving my monies for things that are necessities. Boo responsibility, but yay internet for PUTTING PEOPLE TOGETHER. People who don’t want fake fruit and those who do.
And now for something completely different, I got my picture in the paper! Looking crazy, as usual:
Hurray!! I’m so excited!! I’m as equally as excited for the press as Maxine is (insert emotion here) about riding her bicycle backwards:
Confusion? Bewilderment? Who knows. It’s funny.
So, in closing, cats are funny, Tess looks crazy in photographs, and fake fruit is desired by me for crafts. That is all. Be excellent to each other
xomisstess
Filed under: animation, obsession | Tags: 50 llamas day, alpaca, alpacaloveclub, llama
I think every day should be 50 llamas day:
Did I ever tell you, internet, how much I love alpacas/llamas?? So much so that I have an alpaca fan site and make alpaca fan art:
I was kind of in a bad mood but now I’m imagining 50 llamas and all the sudden the world seems like a better place.
I just had an even better idea….50 llamas in funny neck ties!! Best idea ever!
Filed under: businessy stuff, Costumes by me!, Pictures by Tess | Tags: alien, crafty bastards, fun, miss tess, misstess.com, tutu
Wahoo!! I’m back, finally, from Crafty Bastards! I’m still recovering. After I left DC I went to Boston to prep for the Firefly Festival where I was hosting DIY Costumefest 2008, holla. This involved cutting about 450 yards of tulle into 3″ stripsfor the people to make tutu’s!! Tutu’s pics forthcoming. For now, let’s talk about CB’s!!
It was a great show, lots of fun and tons of awesome people! I finally got to meet my long time internet friends Spooky Daddy and Spooky Mama!
I totally didn’t get a picture with them, I’m such a dork! Whenever Spooky Daddy would come over to interview me with Uncle Loomis or just say HI it got totally nutso and crowded. Which is juuust fine with me. I demand a rain check though!!
Another fun internet meet up happened, this time with pics! I guess I’ve been pretty quiet on my flickr about my new business, my long time flickr friend Lollyknit totally didn’t know i was going to be there! Lookit her all classy and put together. Lookit me all….crazy like.
You know what’s even weirder than weird?? Her sister lives in the same town as me. Crazy. She’s moving soon but hopefully Miss Lolly will be down there before then and we will ROCK the Trent River coffee Shop like there is no tomorrow.
I wish I’d gotten a few pics of my new friend Ariel, I stayed at her house via couchsurfing.com and had a great time talking to her about politics, gender politics, and human flesh grown in petri dishes. She also fed me amazing vegan cupcakes and vegan mac and cheese. One of the best 6 hour stays I’ve ever had!!
I also didn’t get pics of my friends Bonnie, Kate and Skye who I stayed with in Baltimore. They came down to New Bern and hung out with me in February, and we’ve become friends. I had a great time talking about art, the meaning of live, and music. Next time I’m up that way I’m SO hanging out with them, a great time was had by all especially if you gauge things by the hangover I had.
That’s all I can think about as far as notable events goes, other than my circus tent breaking and me needing to scramble at the last second to get a display set up. And not to mention my extremely anti-climatic run in with the judicial system of our country. I had to appear in court for a 78 in a 55mph speeding ticket the Friday I left for DC, and the court was 2 hours away. I was expecting the BOOK to be thrown at me. Jail. License revoked. Tearful pleadings to the judge about how I was shown no leniency because of my pink hair. Instead…I sat in pews for an hour. Then the District Attorney gave me a piece of red paper and said that I have to go to Defensive Driving School. I’ll probably get charged like 500 bucks for the “Consultation”, but I have a court date far in the future so hopefully I’ll be able to save some dough for that.
Anyway, enough of that chat…let’s bring on the pics!!
Ma Booth. I had a white tent with black polka dots. My whole tent was going to look like a circus. Instead…it was this, which worked considering the left secondness of it all!
Ma Sign. Sam painted it, saved my life!! Lesson learned: sometimes it’s okay to hire help for tasks that you a. aren’t good at and b. don’t have time to do:
My self portrait of the day, reflections from inside a mutant aliens eye:
What I wore, isn’t that rainbow visor FIERCE!!!!!
Now for some STUFF!!! These little guys were very popular and loved. They are mutant alien pouches. They have a loop sewn onto the back so you can wear them on your belt. I don’t know about you, but when I’m out and about I tend to lose things and I HATE carrying a purse if I’m dancing. So, voila, my solution to the problem! Plus they are adorable, each has it’s own personality.
Here’s a pouch or two close up, aren’t they adorable??! My friend Sara has the purple one I really should ask her what she named it. I call the 2nd guy “Fredrico” but whoever owns it can call it whatever they want!
Eyeball brooches. People didn’t realize what they were until they saw the sign. Weird!
Mutant Alien Bags. Some have had unfortunate accidents or grotesque mutations. A few are just very, very near sighted. I just love the idea of aliens with glasses.
Here’s another purse close up, mutant alien jellyfish! I love him. Even though his tentacles totally look like udders.
Here’s one of my embellished alien tops. I have a few that sold that I don’t have pics of!! This one is still available. I might keep it for myself!! The mannequin is also modeling a completed tutu kit. I love this color and I’m out!! I gifted the tutu to my friend Laura at Firefly so I guess i need to order more!!
Okay this is Miss Tess signing out!! I’ll hopefully have the shop up and running in the next week. I only have about 1/2 of my stuff left but I’ll do what I can! Tutu Kits! Aliens! Dresses! And More!!
xoxoxo Miss Tess
While looking at the “10 Things I Hate About Commandments” faux trailor yesterday, I found this delightful trailor!
Part of me wants this to be for real. Despite it’s silly and self mocking lines, I have a feeling that it would probably be better than most of the comic book/video game movies that have come out recently.
Filed under: Cats, just silly, video | Tags: carlie, cat, maxine, tess, video
Man on man, I was going through my emails today and found this 1 million year old email from my sister, Carlie, with this cute video:
This is Maxine, she likes boxes, tutus, and being inside things she isn’t supposed to be in. I love her. Thanks Carlie for the great video, and thank Thunderbird for organizing my emails in a weird way today and helping me dig up things I’d long since forgotten!!
