Saturday, January 18, 2014

Spontaneous Moment #46: Cat Mat

As much as I love my cat, she can be a huge slob when eating her food. It's as if one of her extra curricular activities includes competitive eating. So instead of constantly having to lay down paper towels and vacuuming, I'd make a nice little place mat for her.

Speaking of my precious angel... she has also been a little terror to my yoga mat. I'm embarrassed to carry it outside of the house. She has five different scratching posts and toys sprawled around the house and yet she finds my yoga mat to be the best cat scratcher. 

So why not re-purpose my yoga mat? Two birds, one stone. Right?

My workout gear

My cat's masterpiece

My poor yoga mat

Look at the little rascal get at it

Get away from my yoga mat!

Well let's get too it. Times ticking. The yoga mat isn't getting any use just sitting there. So let's use it in some other form.


CAT PLACE MAT


Materials:
  • Old yoga mat (or use cabinet liners)
  • Scissors
  • Xacto Knife
  • Tape

Instructions:

Print off an image of the fork and knife. Cut them out place them how you'd like them to look.


Roll out your yoga mat or whatever material you'd like to use to create your place mat. Designate what are you would like to cut out.

 Place where you want to place your utensils. Make sure all the silverware is even.

 Take the tape and carefully place it under the utensils so they stay on nice and tight.

 Thankfully there were lines on my mat so I was able to cut it evenly, but make sure you measure before you cut out your place mat.

Clearly my cat is a fan already and I'm not even done.

 Grab your Xacto knife and start tracing around the utensils.

This is how it should start to look:

The final product:


 Time to put this bad boy to use:








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