crazy cat (lady) fun

{my great grandmother & her cat....}

{Clearly this is where I inherited my famous pensive stare from.}

crazy cat (Lady) fun

I love this series of posters from Boya Latumahina of Zippora Lux. They are dedicated to her 2 favorite things~hubble celestial photographs and cats. Mine too! Mine too!

update get them here!

cats.

{antique photograph of cat & bird, antique photograph of a man & his undeniably handsome cat, Victorian brass pet collar, cat pillow photo by Eric Weidt for L'Officiel}

cats.

via dream cats

Crazy Cat (Lady) Fun

This special cat lady treasure is a submission I wrote to a photo caption contest in Cat Fancy Magazine, back when stamps were just $29! I found them in the attic of my old doll house (post on that coming soon!). A true Cat Lady starts subscribing to Cat Fancy in elementary school. I wonder why my brilliant submissions never made it to the mail??

.+{Don't forget to enter our contest to win a free Seahorse Necklace!}+.

Crazy Cat (Lady) Fun

August 1st, the day AFTER my birthday, "I Only Mark the Hours that Shine: Little Edie's 1929 Diary," comes out! It's Little Edie's diary from when she was eleven! I love Grey Gardens and I love Edie's crazy babbling. Little Edie & Karl Lagerfeld are my two all time favorite psycho babblers. Karl is still alive & just keeps babbling away, but there is only a limited amount of Little Edie babble...until now! I am super excited and have the urge to create a advent calender to count down to the day!

Crazy Cat Lady Fun

because playing with cats is so much more fun than working

the life of a butterfly hunter continues

The Best Day Ever! I returned to the estate sale I went to yesterday morning with hopes of acquiring a vintage taxidermy butterfly collection. I thought the butterfly collection had been sold. Because before I left yesterday I ran back upstairs to take some more pictures of the collection. But, it was gone.

So when I went back today for some more frames for my desktop air plant gardens I was surprised to see it still there. To my sadness it was still still $100. As we were leaving there were whispers of everything being 50% off after 11 am. I buy my frames drive away without asking about the impending sale. I was feeling shy and frankly just not in the mood to be noticed or interact with anyone I didn't have to. Then while driving the little voice in my head says, "NO! Go ask!" I realize the worst they could say is NO. I roll back up and nervously ask the man in charge if the rumors are true...and he says, "let's make a deal" though it wasn't even eleven yet!

SO WE DID!


Lesson Reminded: It Never Hurts to Ask!

I didn't even realize until after. It's been a year to the day since my cat, Bentli-Balboa passed. Since that horrible experience I have learned to stick up for myself and be bolder. She probably would still be here if I had been. It was the hardest way possible to learn one of the best lessons of my life. I think about that often when I am feeling shy or don't want to cause a ripple, which for me is most of the time. Told I was bold and asked and got what I wanted.

Thank You, Bentli-Balboa.
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Pink Taco Procrastination

I got this super funny pink taco cat toy at Silverlake Art Craft & Vintage today.
The cats LOVE it! They found it inside my purse and chewed open the bag it came in before I had a chance to formally give it to them. Pictured above you can see Mr. Lektor-A$ada looking rather pleased with himself for finding the bagged taco.

Anyways I am supposed to be e-filing my CA sales taxes, but have found it more fun to take pictures of the kitties assaulting their new toy by Oh Boy Cat Toy. They have long passed out. I decided one picture I took looked like it could be a great Virgin Guadalupe scene. This provided me with an additional hour of procrastination via Photoshop....

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