Today has been designated Shabby Chic day by Milo and Alfie, and I have to tell you, it has not been easy to accomplish here! As you might recall, just when we thought we had everything perfect, housekeepers showed up to ruin it all! And we had worked so hard, especially Boodie. You might recall a version of the photo below from my FURminator post a few days ago… except my human Photoshopped Boodie’s fur out! This is the real, unretouched photo:
And now look at the rug. Shameful!
Boodie has been working very hard to get it back to where it was, but there just hasn’t been enough time to make it right again.
Fortunately not much can be done about the corner she has torn into a tassle. She is considering doing this with the other three corners too, for symmetry’s sake.
Binga has been slacking off a bit, thinking that she can rest on her laurels after adding a good amount of shabbiness to the dining room chairs. She should know that Shabby Chic is an ongoing process, and one is never finished decorating.
One item we have been able to work on undisturbed is the cat tree. We have had it for many years, and we are proud of what it has become.
I add some more Shabby Chic-ness to it every day.
And my human, being smart, has never once suggested doing something dumb, like throwing it out. She knows that all its marks mean we love it!
In fact, my human has even done some of her own Shabby Chic work — look!
We cats did not have anything to do with these worn areas. My human created them by dancing for hours to cardio exercise DVDs! She had made the rug far shabbier than we have!
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Wish I’d heard of this sooner, it appears that most of our household items would fit. Thank-you Taco, Bella, Mango and Sumari.
You all did very good werk! At least of it will remain…
Sparkle, this was the best fun to read. I love ALL of your efforts including your mom’s. And you all have superior decorating skills. I am in awe!!
What a lovely kitty. Looks like you do good work too.
Kat
Sparkle, we love the decorating, great work!
LOVE that chair! Superlative decorating, Binga! (This is why we had covers made for our chair seats… LOL!)
Wow, Binga–Props on that chair redecorating! Great job!
P.S. We are relieved you thought the cartoon was funny, cause, you know, we didn’t want you to think we were TOO sick and twisted, MOL (even though we sort of are).
Lovely work!! Lovely! ::Claps Paws::
Great job kitties!! We especially like the chair. We have a chair too..that we like to put our claws into when we feel like decorating.
The cat tree is awsome!! We can tell that was well thought out before you started decorating. Come by and visit and you can see our tree.
Inspiring work on the cat tree guys!
I think you all are far too modest, let’s face it, you’z done some fabulous work in theese Shabby-Chic department. Congrats!
Even though the humans tried to mess up your hard work, the fruits of your labor shine through beautifully! There’s just no hiding true art!
You girls all do great work – even your human! Our human would never wear out a rug – she’d have to get off of her fat arse to do that, so we don’t see that happening.
Nice to see it’s a group effort!!!
Excellent work!
I am so proud of you!
purrin
xoxoxo
Abby
You just have a whole house full of chic and not a shabby anywhere to be seen!
You guys do good work. I would give you an A+ for creativity.
It’s good that you have made your human’s house your own
The rug just made me cry. I know how much work that is. Ours is red and very similar. Of course it cost quite a lot of money so we also scratch it a bit too which drives the male nuts… I love it!
Excellent work, truly. And it’s good to see project teamwork by both kittehs and hoomins.
LOL I Photoshop out messes in our place, too. It seems so much easier than actually cleaning!
You guys are really good at decorating!! Like you, we are good decorators too, but it never fails, once we get things looking pretty shabby chic, the humans come in and either ruin what we have done or take it away totally. We sure don’t understand why the humans don’t appreciate all our hard efforts!!
Wow, looking at your cat tree…it must have taken hours of fine precision work to get it too that level of well loved purrfection!
Yep… you did a splendid job of shappy chic..ing your place. Beautiful work.
pawhugs, Max
Fantastic job of redecorating pals. If you hire out, m said she’d hire you to come over here and help me. It’s a tough job for one kitty to do all the decorating alone.
You ae all so good with the shabby chic look but we must say Binga wins our vote for the most artistic shredding of the chair – the placing of the threads has us in awe of her talent.
luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
Great job of decorating. It is so good of all of you to join in the fun of rearranging the house. We love the cat tree. That looks really nicely decorated. Hope all of you have a fun day.
well, we are really impressed! your dining chairs are beautiful
everytime the people try to “fix things up” it is back to work for us.
bonks!
My dad’s cats did a great job at this–tore up couches, chairs, rugs, and of course, their scratching post too! Fortunately for me, my cats had their front paws declawed or my furniture would be all shabby too.
Wow, you guys have done a wonderful job, such a great collaboration, sweeties…Happy Monday, beautiful girls…kisses…Calle, Halle, Sukki
Heh..hee..heh … I love what you do with the chair, Binga : )
Pretty Stylish..Ha..Ha..ha
xoxo
We especially love the chair too! Excellent shabby chic decorating! And gees, our mom forgot about the cat tree downstairs, which definitely qualifies for shabby. 😀
P.S. The mom says thank you for the b-day wishes, she had a lovely day!
-Nicki and Derry
You have some unique features in your home, Sparkle. Having a team of three (four?) decorators clearly is a big help. You human has an unwinnable challenge with the black field in that area rug, doesn’t she? My humans’ instead chose a rug with a cream colored background in the center. They live in fear of me vomiting on it, or somebody spilling red wine on it, so they close off the whole room!! Nuts.
OMC! Yoo are SO skilled! Those are awesome Shabby Chic design features ~ especially the chairs! Yoo are troo designers!
Great shabby chic, guys. We wish we had claws so we could do some fabric and rug work, but long ago bad mom #1 took them away. Our mom has been doing those cardio exercise DVD’s too, and we just get so sleepy watching.