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Feb27
Weekly Photo Challenge: Pets
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Tag Archives: Cats
Jan29
Creative Juice #227
Topics serious and entertaining:
- For the writers: information about all possible book publishing paths.
- For the writers: how guest blogging can help you promote your novel.
- How the gift of books helps change lives in prison.
- Some beautiful quilts—including three on Mazie Hirono’s wall.
- How to review poetry books (many of the points cross over to other reviews as well).
- Some ideas for generating worthwhile social media content.
- If you love cats, you’re going to love this.
- Todd Brison writes about 50 things that helped him get through 2020. They might help you with the rough start of 2021.
- A different interpretation of a well-known Bible story. I never thought about it quite like this before.
- Gifts to sew for every occasion. Get started now for next Christmas.
- What it’s like to have Covid. If it hasn’t touched your circle, you just don’t know.
- How an artist’s pandemic experience influenced his illustration work.
Jan1
Creative Juice #223
Happy New Year! (May it be better than last year. Please, God. Amen.)
- A doodle diary helps a man deal with the loss of his wife.
- Gorgeous zentangles.
- Encouragement from strangers.
- Extraordinarily beautiful cats.
- I love this story about a woman who put together an art class for her neighbors’ children.
- A quilter grows in her craft.
- Paper cranes taken to the next level.
- Whoa! I didn’t even know this existed! ChromeMusicLab. You gotta show your kids. Fun for grownups, too.
- Fabulous children’s book illustrators.
- For the children’s writers: magazine markets for children’s stories.
- A forgotten genius, the Michelangelo of the 20th century.
- For the birds.
Nov6
Creative Juice #215
Oh, is it Friday already? So sorry I’m late!
- These cat pictures had me laughing out loud.
- Beautiful zentangles.
- What quilters have known all along: quilts are fine art.
- These sculptures look soft, but they’re really made from rock.
- So, writers: are your hobbies enhancing your creativity, or are they unproductive time-sucks?
- Are you trying a new artistic endeavor? This advice is for you.
- Dollhouses for grownups.
- Please review the books you read.
- An architect and artist discusses his dual passions.
- I love to check my friend Vesna’s Instagram page and see what she’s up to.
- Double-exposure photography.
- Fun with PVC pipe.
Oct29
Happy National Cat Day
Our last cat, Zoe, passed away this past June.
In June, 2001, Greg took four of our kids to a former student’s house to look at some kittens. I gave him permission to choose one or two to adopt. (We’d previously owned two cats, and then three more cats. We were catless at the time.)
He came home with four kittens.
“Why?” I asked.
“I couldn’t break up the family, could I?”
Each kid got to name a kitten. They were Channing, Cloud, Bruce, and Zoe.
They all lived fairly long lives. I think Bruce was first to pass, then Channing. Then last year, Cloud.
Zoe, who had been quite fat at one point in her life, weighed only 3 pounds the day she died. She started hanging out in the shower, which was what Bruce did when he was ready to die. I took Zoey to the vet and stayed with her while they administered the shots. Little sweetie. I miss her so. She was nineteen years old, the oldest cat we’d ever had.
But I’d gotten really tired of cat hair everywhere. There will be no more cats at this Huelsenbeck house. Three of our kids, though, have cats.
Here’s a wonderful article about an artist who draws illustrations from cat photos online. They will make you laugh. Enjoy. And pet a cat today.
Sep4
Creative Juice #206
Great inspiration for your creativity this weekend:
- The before and after shots of this Single Irish Chain quilt show its free-motion quilting transformation.
- Cats in awkward positions.
- Photographs that are out of this world.
- Different interpretations using the same Zentangle designs.
- I didn’t know what happened to the author of The Little Prince.
- What Hemingway said about writing.
- Sketching on the go.
- These tips for creators are both simple and profound.
- This artist forages in the forest to create her bird portraits.
- Rope art.
- Nathalie is the stencil queen. It’s interesting to watch how she layers her stencils.
- I love Nicole Tadgell’s illustrations.
Oct23
OctPoWriMo Day 23
I am participating in two challenges this month, OctPoWriMo and Inktober. To make it easier on myself, I’m trying to write a new poem on odd-numbered days and make a drawing on even-numbered days.
Today’s prompt is Fur Babies.
No, these are not Stripy and Schwartz. I couldn’t find a picture of them. Sorry.
Our First Two Cats
I gave my daughter the job
of naming the two kittens.
She named the tabby Stripy
and the black one Schwartz.
(Schwartz was also a nickname I called my daughter.)
One year we ordered cat Christmas ornaments engraved with their names
but they sent us child ornaments instead.
I imagined the confusion of the engraver—
They have a kid named Schwartz?
They have a kid named Stripy?
When we moved across the country,
for logistics sake, we found them a new home
with an older woman who lived alone.
She phoned us more than once
to tell us how much it meant to her
to come home from work and be greeted
by her kitties; no more lonesome home.
Jun21
Creative Juice #143
Gorgeous ideas to jump-start your imagination.
- I have long admired the sketches of Suhita Shirodkar. Watch her paint a quick (5 minutes!) sketch of Mexican dancers.
- I never thought of the creative process in this way.
- About America’s painting royalty: the Wyeths.
- Beautiful photographs of Rome. I want to go!
- Yes, but is it art? Where is the line? Lots of questions—any answers?
- T-shirts for math and science nerds.
- A reading list for people who like fantasy and fairy tales.
- Kids and their stuff. (I wish I’d taken pictures like these of all my children and their prized possessions.)
- An artist comments on the work of Marsden Hartley.
- Zentangle donuts.
- Cats on Twitter. (Too bad they can’t spell.)
- Your neighborhood dollar store probably carries these fabulous organizers.
May23
Video of the Week #202: Cat Art
Jan24
Video of the Week #185: Is it Taxidermy, or is it Needle Felting?
