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  • The Mad Cat LadyBarbarella a.k.a. The Mad Cat Lady Born in 1966 and raised in Germany. From age 7 had private piano tuition. Taught piano from age 14 onwards. Moved to London in 1984. Played keyboards and sang backing vocals in various bands in London, most notably electro-goth band “Anno Lucis“. Spent a lot of nights in the 80s in the London Goth & New Romantic Scene (Batcave, Frizzby Fox/Hippodrome, Kitcat Club, Slimelight, Camden Palace etc.) Jobs in London: waitress, bike messenger, piano teacher, peepshow dancer, translator, and later medical and legal secretary. 1990s: Started recording solo music projects. 1996-7: Started to learn Web Design and moving away from making music to creating websites. Took part in a lot of Sci-Fi conventions all over the UK and one Babylon5 one in Los Angeles, always dressed up in various costumes (see Photo Gallery). 2000: Adopted Lugosi & Spider from the RSPCA March. Last music projects written and recorded in 2002/3 (Dominatrix Project). 2003: Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. 2004: Moved to Lanzarote, Canary Islands (click here for location). Started learning Photography (specialising in cats) and setting up Catnip Camera and Picture Lanzarote. 2006: Adopted Persian Princess Janelle (after her human “mummy” Teresa died). 2007: Diagnosed with…
  • Meet the CatsLugosi Bully Boy and overall Boss Cat. Likes: Fighting.  Dislikes: Car Journeys. Ruby Little Orange Spitfire Likes: Wrestling with her Brothers, Food, Playing. Dislikes: Being told off for being naughty. Spider Mischief Maker Extraordinaire. Likes: Getting in Trouble. Dislikes: The Vacuum Cleaner. Lugosi, Spider & Ruby – “Haus von Fluffenstein” – Videos Videos of Janelle too (who now lives happily with a good friend) [back to top]
    • Spider & Lugosi R.I.P. Book of MemoriesIn order to deal with my grief over losing my sweet, gentle boy Spider to cancer on 2nd September 2017, I have started a “Book of Memories” as suggested in the very helpful publication “Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers“. This is a creative way to write down all the cute and funny moments that you have of your furbaby, to which you can then come back to in later times/years.  Memories do fade over time, so I started this a few days after his passing while things about him are still very fresh in my mind. It helps work through my feelings of loss over him and turn something so incredibly sad into something beautiful, loving and creative.  I will publish more photos of each page from the book as I go along.  [gallery columns="5" size="medium" link="file" ids="9580,9599,9581,9582,9583,9584,9585,9586,9587,9588,9589,9590,9591,9592,9593,9594,9595,9596,9597"]
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  • Gothic LanzaroteYou might think that a sunny island like Lanzarote (situated HERE in the world) is totally unsuitable for Goths. What have sunshine and beaches to do with Goth, I hear you ask? Well, first of all, deep down most Goths *love* sunshine – meaning that they don’t like to be *in* it because it will damage their gothic pallor, but they love *looking* at it. Secondly, if you hate the beach in the daytime then you visit it at night. You know it’s the Goth thing to do. ;) But to get to the point now, there are actually quite a few things that will attract Goths to this lovely island. The total lack of a Goth Scene is of course not one of them, but while living here I have discovered many things that are very gothic indeed! :) Volcanoes Can you think of a force more beautiful and destructive? These are both qualities that Goths very much live for. Lanzarote is full of volcanoes, although only one is still “smoking” – this one is in the gorgeous Timanfaya National Park and you can actually eat food that has been grilled over the heat of this volcano up there…
    • A Friend’s View of Lanzarote
  • Music Projectsa:link, a:visited, a:active {color:#9E0E11;text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold} a:hover{color:white} p {padding-bottom:20px} h3 {padding-bottom:13px} The following are sound snippets (approx. 2 mins each song) from my old music projects from the early 90s up to around 2003. After that, all my creativity has gone into web design, graphic design and photography, and I haven´t written or recorded anything new since then. Also, sadly, due to bad co-ordination and pain from my illnesses (fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis) I have not been playing or singing live. My music is divided into 3 projects, because the styles are so wildly different, there was no way they would have ever fitted together. The “First” and “Endymion” Projects Under the name “SilkRush” I wrote and recorded the album “First – The Light Side” which contains all my cheerful pop and dance songs (plus some ballads), and “Endymion – The Dark Side” which reveals the darker gothic side of my music – “Shadow Dancers” (Endymion), for example, is a haunting goth piece with Kate Bush-style vocals, whereas “In the Summer Rain” (First) is a beautiful commercial ballad! The “Dominatrix” Project If you are into hardhitting industrial, trance and dark techno sounds then you might prefer this to SilkRush’s more “sane”…
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  • The Mad Cat LadyBarbarella a.k.a. The Mad Cat Lady Born in 1966 and raised in Germany. From age 7 had private piano tuition. Taught piano from age 14 onwards. Moved to London in 1984. Played keyboards and sang backing vocals in various bands in London, most notably electro-goth band “Anno Lucis“. Spent a lot of nights in the 80s in the London Goth & New Romantic Scene (Batcave, Frizzby Fox/Hippodrome, Kitcat Club, Slimelight, Camden Palace etc.) Jobs in London: waitress, bike messenger, piano teacher, peepshow dancer, translator, and later medical and legal secretary. 1990s: Started recording solo music projects. 1996-7: Started to learn Web Design and moving away from making music to creating websites. Took part in a lot of Sci-Fi conventions all over the UK and one Babylon5 one in Los Angeles, always dressed up in various costumes (see Photo Gallery). 2000: Adopted Lugosi & Spider from the RSPCA March. Last music projects written and recorded in 2002/3 (Dominatrix Project). 2003: Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. 2004: Moved to Lanzarote, Canary Islands (click here for location). Started learning Photography (specialising in cats) and setting up Catnip Camera and Picture Lanzarote. 2006: Adopted Persian Princess Janelle (after her human “mummy” Teresa died). 2007: Diagnosed with…
  • Meet the CatsLugosi Bully Boy and overall Boss Cat. Likes: Fighting.  Dislikes: Car Journeys. Ruby Little Orange Spitfire Likes: Wrestling with her Brothers, Food, Playing. Dislikes: Being told off for being naughty. Spider Mischief Maker Extraordinaire. Likes: Getting in Trouble. Dislikes: The Vacuum Cleaner. Lugosi, Spider & Ruby – “Haus von Fluffenstein” – Videos Videos of Janelle too (who now lives happily with a good friend) [back to top]
    • Spider & Lugosi R.I.P. Book of MemoriesIn order to deal with my grief over losing my sweet, gentle boy Spider to cancer on 2nd September 2017, I have started a “Book of Memories” as suggested in the very helpful publication “Soul Comfort for Cat Lovers“. This is a creative way to write down all the cute and funny moments that you have of your furbaby, to which you can then come back to in later times/years.  Memories do fade over time, so I started this a few days after his passing while things about him are still very fresh in my mind. It helps work through my feelings of loss over him and turn something so incredibly sad into something beautiful, loving and creative.  I will publish more photos of each page from the book as I go along.  [gallery columns="5" size="medium" link="file" ids="9580,9599,9581,9582,9583,9584,9585,9586,9587,9588,9589,9590,9591,9592,9593,9594,9595,9596,9597"]
  • Blog
  • Photo Gallery
    • Myself & Family
    • The Kitties
    • SciFi, Horror & Fantasy Conventions/Events
    • Bands, Clubs & Music
    • Places I have Been – Holidays
    • Airplanes & Helicopters
    • Fireworks
    • Cemeteries[album id=2 template=compact]
  • Gothic LanzaroteYou might think that a sunny island like Lanzarote (situated HERE in the world) is totally unsuitable for Goths. What have sunshine and beaches to do with Goth, I hear you ask? Well, first of all, deep down most Goths *love* sunshine – meaning that they don’t like to be *in* it because it will damage their gothic pallor, but they love *looking* at it. Secondly, if you hate the beach in the daytime then you visit it at night. You know it’s the Goth thing to do. ;) But to get to the point now, there are actually quite a few things that will attract Goths to this lovely island. The total lack of a Goth Scene is of course not one of them, but while living here I have discovered many things that are very gothic indeed! :) Volcanoes Can you think of a force more beautiful and destructive? These are both qualities that Goths very much live for. Lanzarote is full of volcanoes, although only one is still “smoking” – this one is in the gorgeous Timanfaya National Park and you can actually eat food that has been grilled over the heat of this volcano up there…
    • A Friend’s View of Lanzarote
  • Music Projectsa:link, a:visited, a:active {color:#9E0E11;text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold} a:hover{color:white} p {padding-bottom:20px} h3 {padding-bottom:13px} The following are sound snippets (approx. 2 mins each song) from my old music projects from the early 90s up to around 2003. After that, all my creativity has gone into web design, graphic design and photography, and I haven´t written or recorded anything new since then. Also, sadly, due to bad co-ordination and pain from my illnesses (fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis) I have not been playing or singing live. My music is divided into 3 projects, because the styles are so wildly different, there was no way they would have ever fitted together. The “First” and “Endymion” Projects Under the name “SilkRush” I wrote and recorded the album “First – The Light Side” which contains all my cheerful pop and dance songs (plus some ballads), and “Endymion – The Dark Side” which reveals the darker gothic side of my music – “Shadow Dancers” (Endymion), for example, is a haunting goth piece with Kate Bush-style vocals, whereas “In the Summer Rain” (First) is a beautiful commercial ballad! The “Dominatrix” Project If you are into hardhitting industrial, trance and dark techno sounds then you might prefer this to SilkRush’s more “sane”…
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Meowy Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein
  • 3 Cats
  • Callisto
  • Jupiter
  • Ruby
  • Ruby Jupiter Callisto

Meowy Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein

  • 23 December 201922 December 2019

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas, and I hope that 2020 will be better than 2019. My boy Lugosi died in March at age 19½, my father died in July,…

Merry Christmas to all you Cool Cats!
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Cat Stuff
  • Jupiter
  • Lugosi
  • Lugosi Ruby Jupiter
  • Spider

Merry Christmas to all you Cool Cats!

  • 19 December 2018

Wishing all my fellow cat lovers an amazing Christmas and a fantastic New Year!

Merry Catmas, Everybody!
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Merry Catmas, Everybody!

  • 18 December 201711 December 2017

All the best for the new year too, from Barbarella, Ruby, Lugosi and Spirit Cat Spider (yes, he’s still around, haunting us – see him just above my head on…

My Little Christmas Elf-Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby & Lugosi

My Little Christmas Elf-Cats

  • 11 December 2017

Aren’t the just adorable? 🙂  Make sure to also watch the “Behind the Scenes” / “Making of” videos at the bottom of these photos. 😉   Part 1 – Behind…

Ruby helps wrap Xmas Presents
  • Ruby

Ruby helps wrap Xmas Presents

  • 26 November 201722 November 2017
Merry Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Spider

Merry Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein

  • 21 December 201620 December 2016
Christmas Cats – Behind the Scenes
  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby & Spider
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Christmas Cats – Behind the Scenes

  • 15 December 201612 December 2016

A Christmas photo session with one cat is easy. With two cats it becomes a bit of a challenge. With three cats?! That’s when it starts getting difficult! Lots of…

Merry Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider

Merry Christmas from Haus von Fluffenstein

  • 24 December 201420 December 2014
Pre-Christmas Noms
  • Lugosi

Pre-Christmas Noms

  • 6 December 20146 December 2014

Erm, Lugosi… this stuff is not for kitties. 😉

Janelle inspect the Xmas tree…
  • Janelle

Janelle inspect the Xmas tree…

  • 24 December 2013

Yes, it´s all good, and correct, and well done hoomins, you did a good job. *haz Nelly´s stamp of Approval*

Janelle gets her Xmas Prezzie
  • Janelle

Janelle gets her Xmas Prezzie

  • 24 December 2013

Mine. All Mine. Nom.

Ruby says Merry Christmas
  • Ruby

Ruby says Merry Christmas

  • 23 December 2012

But she doesn´t look impressed with the gothic Santa hat! 

  • 3 Cats
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Videos

Tuna for Christmas!

  • 25 December 2011

Special treat for Lugosi & Spider in particular, since they are on special food for their chronic illnesses at all other times of the year!

Merry Christmas Everybody
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi

Merry Christmas Everybody

  • 24 December 2011
  • 3 Cats
  • Barbarella
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Videos

Merry Christmas to you all!

  • 22 December 2011

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Xmas comes early for Janelle
  • Janelle

Xmas comes early for Janelle

  • 17 December 2011

Janelle got her early Christmas prezzie today from Auntie Barbarella!

Ruby helping…
  • Ruby

Ruby helping…

  • 13 December 2011

Look mummy, all done!  I wrapped all your prezzies for you! And now I´m tie-tie and need a siesta….

Merry Xmas from the Von Fluffensteins
  • Barbarella
  • Lugosi
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Merry Xmas from the Von Fluffensteins

  • 24 December 20102 January 2011
Merry Frickin Xmas
  • Janelle

Merry Frickin Xmas

  • 20 December 20102 January 2011

…says Janelle 😉

Random Boxing Day Kitty Pic Post
  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Ruby with Spider & Lugosi
  • Spider
  • Spider & Lugosi

Random Boxing Day Kitty Pic Post

  • 26 December 200926 December 2009

Hope you´re all having a great Crimbo.  Here´s some random cute pics for you to enjoy of my Terrible Threesome. 🙂.Lugosi & Ruby.Basket Case Spider (I love the way his…

  • Cute
  • Lugosi
  • Ruby
  • Videos

Happy Christmas again from us…

  • 24 December 200924 December 2009
Ain´t she CUTE!
  • Cute
  • Ruby

Ain´t she CUTE!

  • 10 December 200910 December 2009

Ruby´s Xmas outfit.  Erm, actually it´s not hers, she just borrowed it from my friend´s Staffordshire Terrier, Daisy – see pic below. 🙂.

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  • Canariaspace Web Design in Lanzarote
  • Catnip Camera – Feline (+ Other) Photography
  • My Tokyo 2010 Blog
  • Picture Lanzarote Photography
  • The Mad Cat Lady´s Personal Blog
  • YouTube: Haus von Fluffenstein

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