Yuki came to live with us on December 3rd 2004. He was almost 8 weeks old. Because we live in an apartment on the third floor we thought it best to seal of the balcony. He was still so tiny we were terrified by the idea of him slipping through the banisters and falling down. So we got ourselves a big cane mat that we weaved through those banisters which solved that problem.
Because the mat also gave us some extra privacy, we thought wed leave it there for the summer. Yuki, however, thought otherwise. When he was 6 months old I guess he was tired of not knowing where the sounds came from. In an unattended moment he demolished the mat completely.
The photos show what I saw when I came up the balcony to hang up the laundry. I wanted to be mad, honestly, but the sight of Yuki looking up at me with his mouth full of cane straws, the mat in half and the balcony a total messmade me laugh so hard that the tears just ran over my face.
I guess any parent or other pet owner will recognize what I felt at that moment. You know you have to reprimand the cutie but you also know they can see it in your eyes that you are laughing inside and that its not all that bad. That is the feeling I tried to put down in my page. Not using the word word but the definition of it, resembles me counting to ten while trying not to laugh before I gave up and broke down in laughter.

Credits:

papers:
Limoncello by The Queen of Quirk

Elements:
Hanging Tags No. 1 by Katie Pertiet (staple)
Brads Bonanza by Patti Knox (guess what?)
Torn Paper by Major Tigger Scraps (torn paper piece)
Curvy Corner Stitched Blocks No. 2 by Anna Aspnes (stitches, altered)
Distressed Edge Overlays No. 3 by Anna Aspnes (Overlay)

Brush:
TI Graphic Pack

Fonts:
Futura, Glypha and Caslon Old Face

Thanks for peeking!