Cat's Meow Mews & Mailbox #17

Cat's Meow Mailbox is inspired by the great weekly recap book memes (Mailbox Monday, Waiting On Wednesday, It’s Monday! What are you reading? and Sunday Post)

It's been an exciting and eventful end of 2013/beginning of 2014. New Years Day is traditionally spent at the farm my father grew up on for our big holiday family gathering. My aunt is a crafter-extraordinaire and this year since it's so bitterly cold outside she planned a craft project for anyone who wanted to participate. Even though I try from time to time, I don't particularly consider myself a crafter, but would you believe I made a wool feather tree? I just love Victoriana and am so proud of how it turned out:

On Tuesday I purchased a custom domain name from Go Daddy and on Thursday I set it up. All by myself with the help on an online tutorial. In two days I successfully completed a big craft project and a big blog project...world domination just might be next for this girl! We'll be telling you more about our new name change tomorrow :)

We also received two great honors this week...Truffles is featured over on Rascal and Rocco's Pet Parade Blog Hop in her New Year's finery AND we were named the BlogPaws Featured Blogger of the month (more on this to come!)

I hope you're all staying warm and are spending your time cuddled up with a good book and a kitty :) 58 consecutive hours in my neck of the woods was below zero this week! I can take the cold a lot better than I can take the heat, but my heart breaks when I think about the stray animals out there without a warm home to go to. I found this neat idea online yesterday and think it's important to pass along:

Last week on Mochas, Mysteries and More:
* 2014 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge
* Chewy.com Product Review: Natural Balance Holiday Pack
* 5 Defining Moments of 2013
* Happy New Year 2014
* Thankful Thursday: The Cat Blogosphere Calendar
* Whiskers Behind the Words: Author Connie Archer's Buster
* Photohunt: Aqua

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