Cat Morley


Blog Posts

Aug

19

Henry Doorly Zoo
Today was my birthday, so after opening cards and presents we headed out on an adventure. Every birthday girl should have a pink donut with sprinkles for breakfast. We drank orange juice from the...

18

American Birthday
Today was Tom's birthday, so after opening cards and presents in bed, we jumped in the car and hit the road. Even the cash machines are drive through here! We then went for breakfast at the IHOP, ...

17

Extreme Co-Working
Dave and Megan have been running an Extreme Co-Working week at Camp where everyone is invited to come and work, drink Red Bull and watch Vin Diesel movies. We headed along for a while this morning.

16

Our First Car
We got our first ever car today, which is a Dodge Neon. Our mechanic friend Joe dropped it off this afternoon and showed us how to change the oil and where all the important things are. He's also g...

15

The World's Smallest Post Service
We received the world's smallest post service kit from Leafcutter Designs to play with today. The kit includes everything you need to write tiny letters, including a magnifying glass to read them.

14

Coney Island Lagers
This morning our mechanic friend Joe brought over a new car for us to check out. It looks perfect and, if all goes well, we'll be driving it around on Tuesday. We went for lunch and frozen margari...

13

A Crafty Superhero Is Born
We finally launched the first ever issue of my Crafterella comic book. You can read it now on the Cut Out + Keep Facebook page.

12

Beer And Loathing In Dundee
We went car shopping today on Saddle Creek where we took this car for a test drive. It seemed okay, though the horn didn't work and there was a strange sound coming from the boot. Our mechanic frie...

11

Tim Kasher
We went back to Red Mango today to get frozen yogurt. Tom wasn't too convinced that he liked it but after a few spoonfuls, he couldn't stop himself. This time we tried cinnamon and vanilla yogurt...

10

Liza Girl
Cut Out + Keep was in a Russian magazine called Liza Girl. One of my members transcribed it for me and she said it says "Forty thousand brilliant master classes for all occasions, from multi-colore...

9

Graffiti Creatures
There's been lots more of these cute things popping up around Omaha. We went back to Julio's for dinner this evening. We started with blended margaritas which were so good. We then shared the ga...

8

Donut Stop
Tom ordered me the prettiest Tarina Tarantino necklace for my birthday and it arrived today. The pendant is a pair of scissors, so it's a proper seamstress necklace and has skulls with diamante ey...

7

Snappy
I finished a new iPad painting today. It's so addictive.

6

Art-O-Matic
We finally had some $5 notes today, so we headed to the Bemis Centre to get some art from the Art-O-Matic vending machine. There were so many cool things to pick from. We got a 3D art box and a b...

5

A Bicycle Made For Two
The Impossible Project sent me a second batch of film to replace our first botched batch of polaroids. I can't wait to get snapping.

4

Saigon Surface
My Cambridge satchel arrived this morning and it's even prettier in real life. I love the colour! I got the 14" which is the perfect size as it fits my laptop perfectly and the iPad slots snuggly ...

3

Jackson Street Tavern
This evening we met up with Danion and Josh for dinner at the Jackson Street Tavern. Danion's been a member of Cut Out + Keep for ages and has posted loads of great projects. I ordered the tuna mel...

2

Cupcake Wars
We went for the early bird special at Wheatfield's this morning, where you can get breakfast for just $3. I had poached eggs on toast with hollandaise to start. I was still hungry so I also had a ...

Jul

31

$3 Dessert
This morning Tom and I went for brunch at Vivace, a lovely Italian restaurant in the Old Market. I ordered malted waffled with hazelnuts and fruit. Tom ordered poached eggs and we had half of eac...

30

Bemis Centre
We went for lunch at Wheatfield's in the Old Market today. I had a portabello sandwich topped with hollandaise sauce. Tom thought it looked like a giant steak, so I reminded him that Quorn steaks ...

28

Transparent Polaroids
There's a really cool trick you can do with newly developed polaroid photos. You cut the bottom off the polaroid and then heat the top layer off with a hair dryer, so that you're left with a trans...

27

Fortune Cookie Camera
Walgreens were doing film processing for 99c today, so I took my fortune cookie camera along to get developed! Here are some of our favourites. I'll scan them all when I get the chance.

26

Little Monsters
Lady Gaga was in town yesterday and got swamped by fans outside the radio stations. It's rumoured that she's building a giant house up on Dodge, so Omaha must be pretty cool if Gaga wants to live h...

25

Workers Diner
Tom and I treated ourselves to lunch out today at Workers Diner. We discovered it while searching for Omaha on YouTube. My spicy tuna sandwich was really tasty and came with crisps and a gherkin s...

24

Double Rainbow
There was a giant double rainbow in the sky as we were heading out today. We went up to the roof to get a better view. The sky looked so crazy and it felt like sunrise thought it was actually suns...