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I'm watching this wonderful documentary on The Cat House On The Kings,called "The Lady with 700 Cats". This woman, Lynnea Lattanzio, founded the org. which is a non-profit and currently takes care of 700+ cats who otherwise would have been euthenized. She's my new hero :) they are situated on 12 acres along the King's River in Parlier, CA.
for more info go here: http://www.cathouseonthekings.com/
I have always loved Corrie Kuipers' artwork since I came across it on Cafepress years ago. She has a greeting card shop on Greeting Card Universe where all of the humor and whimsy she puts into her work has thousands of expressions. She is one of the bestselling artists on GCU and one of the hardest working.
I've also known her to be one of the most generous artists out there because she's often helping other artists be more successful. I don't know how she finds time to do everything she does. Really! Maybe it's something in the water in the Netherlands :)
If you want to sell your greeting cards on Greeting Card Universe, check out Corrie's GCU community blog, and the Card Designing Tips and Sales Tips lenses on Squidoo. They will give you all the tools you'll need to be successful on GCU. Just add your 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration and you will be as prepared as you can be for successful greeting card sales.
www.squidoo.com
Heather Broster is a greeting card artist living in Turin, Italy (i'm jealous :) and she has a blog, Fluffy the Cat written by her furry companion. She started a new Squidoo lens devoted to cat-focused artists on Greeting Card Universe, including me (thanks! :)
Speaking of cats . . .
I have a new cats and motorcycle safety design! Why? Because these cats just wanted to wear helmets.
cats and motorcycle helmets! Stickers
I miss her already! My daughter came to visit for a couple of weeks and it was soooo nice to see her. She lives in Scottsdale, AZ and I am trying to convince her that Portland would be wonderful :)
Picking her UP from the airport was a hoot, lol. I spent a little time driving around the IKEA parking lot, trying to find my way back out to the airport exit I missed. It's pretty big and there are lots of planes . . .don't know how I missed it . . . GPS doodads were created for people like me.
Anyway, it's a nice drive from Salem to Portland and it's a beautiful day, AND she's my favorite person on the planet, so . . .I feel glad to have all that. She's off now and I'm thinking of "I Miss You" designs for cards. This is a new one:
Well, the cats and I have been here in Oregon for a few weeks now and I think we are adjusting to all the green. They flop over on their backs in the front yard and roll back and forth on the grass, especially after it's just been mown--all the nice stubby grass feels good!
Albuquerque, our home for 15 years, is beautiful, but it is not green. In fact, flying over Albuquerque you notice how not green it is. What it is is many lovely shades of brown. And we didn't have a lawn, lawns are too thirsty for a dry environment, but we did have 2 acres for the cats to roam and a driveway with plenty of places to hide so they could jump out and startle you when you walked up from getting the mail. A favorite cat past time :)
I have a lot of images of New Mexico on my camera that I want to paint in the near future. I especially love the hills and the Sandias when they turn pink in the evening, all the sun and long shadows. For now though,
we are busy getting used to moisture in the air and rolling in the grass, hiding behind the blackberry bushes and working on new card designs for Greeting Card Universe.
