OCD meets Impatience

So I'm still waiting and as things go it's unlikely I'll get my hands on guinea pigs until December.

Basically Saturday week is the auction and depending on how that goes we'll know if we have money for a house. At some point we will get the money but things get more complex if the house is passed in at auction. Then on Monday regardless of the results of the auction we head up to Armidale to start seriously house hunting. Unfortunately my mother who's buying the house (I'll be cadging free room and board while I finish my law degree) likes quirky houses. Currently she can't decide between the self sustaining house with the composting toilet or a 1940's fibro house that is veritable rabbit warren because each new owner extended it. I'm really hoping we don't get the composting toilet house, but either way both houses have room for a caviary indoors which is lovely and the composting toilet home is one acreage so plenty of room for a few aviaries as well.

So I'm a very creative person, I like having projects. We've been clearing out the family home and I've discovered that ten year old me had a habit of squirreling well everything. Only problem is I also liked some truly hideous fabric, but hey it's free. So combine boredom, with impatience, with creativity with endless supplies? This is what I've made so far...

• 10 cavy cozies, with boning to hold them open.
•  4 large cage pads to fit two petstore cages
• 12 small cage pads to fit picnic basket style carriers
• 8 tiny 30 x 30 cage pads I made when I was 10 and have no idea what purpose they served
• 4 laps pads for holding cavies
• 4 bags made of pink skull material
• A roll up kit for grooming supplies
• A bright pink grooming stand with swivel top
• A Samsara Cavies sign
• Pretty much every form of record keeping templates I could ever need
• New Glimmer & Samsara Pedigree Templates
• Fake fur hot water bottle covers

Hmm I think that's all I've made so far, I've kind of completely run out of fabric so that's stalled things for a while. I had metres and metres of this hideous green ladybug fleece and an even worse patterned pink fleece which have now been completely used up. 

I've also made extensive lists of what I intend to buy for said caviary and worked out what cages I want, and where I'll order them from, and where to buy corflute. Hmm I think I've gone a tad beyond obsessive, but hey that's me, I'm weird.

The other project I'm working on is a cavy health guide. I only intended it for my own reference but so many people have said they'd like a copy I've had to change what I was doing to make it more accessible. Then of course I thought I should do some more research and have certainly gone a tad overboard with that as well. So I'm hoping to finish that in a few weeks so then I can tinker with it over Summer.