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Striped Pajamas
The excuse for last week’s non post, as excuses go, merits little explanation. For my birthday last weekend, among all the many kindnesses, someone gave me a cold. On we go… Striped Pajamas. It’s not about the children’s song I learned from Captain Kangaroo about...
The Calico Dog, My Rebellious Entry into Sewing
Sixth grade. I found the pattern in Mom’s woman’s magazine. I don’t now where I got the fabric; it wasn’t really calico, but definitely not gingham. So, though the poem talks of a gingham dog and calico cat, I made a calico dog. Rebellious start to finish! The...
Marie Kondo, Filing, Letting Go, and Dust Bunnies
I love Marie Kondo. However… I have never seen her try to tidy an artist’s studio. My entire home is a studio. This week, overwhelmed with file boxes, crates and stacks of papers that trip up the simplest of movements and bruise shins, I bought two (more) file...
I MADE IT MYSELF…ESPECIALLY FOR YOU
Consider it a double blessing when you make a gift with your own hands. The act of making for a particular person is a gift to the maker as well as the recipient. The outcome or “product” is one of a kind, unique, thoughtful, and rare. The connection between you and...
WRITING 2020
2020 Week 1 January 5 WRITING… “So, writing. What a bitch. I suppose being any kind of artist is hard at times, most times…” ___Anne Lamott, Almost Everything, Chapter 6 I hate to write, but...
Day Twenty-Five – Puppy Meditation Wake Up!
My DogDaysOfSummer challenge is one quarter accomplished and the ship is still set at full steam ahead. The DDOS are indeed getting warmer, a lunar eclipse is in process this week causing all kinds of interesting situations, and I am happy to have made 25 dog (and...
Poop Deck installed at the Twig Book Shop. Mama bird, Papa bird and at least 2 confirmed babies in the nest above the door!
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Lakshmi in the covers. She is one of the feral kittens I trapped and is being fostered by Karen. Thank you Karen!
Bunny on white linen.
The 4 kittens are available for adoption. My friend Karen who volunteers at the Animal Defense League has kindly taken over their temporary care at her home. They are very sweet, eating well, used to being handled. PLEASE CONSIDER ADOPTING! Connect with me for questions. Thank you.
In spite of caring for feral kittens and getting the mama spayed, I managed to get one drawing done! Miracle. Hooray!
So, I have been busy. A neighbor and I have been keeping an eye on a feral cat we thought must have kittens. Taadaa! Found this morning. They are gentle. The mom went in to the trap. I work with the SA Feral Cat Coalition and maintain a colony. Tomorrow we will visit the Animal Defense League and hope to be one of the first 10 in line for spaying the mom. She is skinny. A new life awaits. Who needs a kitten??? Thanks to Karen for all the advice and the cat milk from HEB. Who knew?
Hope the Pomeranian Queen of the house.