Wednesday, July 1, 2009

500 Hearts - Thank You Everyone!


I made 500 Hearts today! I am very pleased and happy! Hope everyone out there is having a good
Canada Day and looking forward to the 4th!


Cathy 7 / 1/ 09

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Premio Meme Award

Julie of Julie Magers Soulen has awarded me the Premio Meme Award. I am blushing with this honor! Thanks so much!

The rules of this award is that I am to give 7 facts about myself and pass it to 7 people. Here we go!


1. I live with three cats, all black.
2. I am Irish and Spanish.
3. I have been married only 15 years to DH, this is a second marriage for both of us.
4. I love books, and usually come home from a trip with a load of book, both fiction and
reference books and photo books of the area I visited.
5. I could sit all day and photoshop images.
6. I am having trouble with the Google Base upload! Big Trouble! It never loads!
7. I love all animals, cats, dogs, chippies, squirrels and horses just to name a few.

Now to pass this award along to 7 deserving blog owners (in no particular order):

Allieart4chikdren

Elephant Dreams

Urban Junkies

RHRadcliffedesigns

Beholden To Nature

Julie Magers Soulen and GypsyMoonDesigns were already awarded a Premio, but they do deserve 2!


Cathy 6 / 28 / 09

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Hamlet Thanks You!


Thank You for voting for Hamlet my Birthday Cat. He took 5th place out of so many lovely cards.

Thank You!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men, Or Is It Mice & Cats?

Road coming out of Spearfish Canyon, near Deadwood Gulch

I have been sick and had a lot of time when I wasn't trying to keep ahead of the rain on I-90, to think about vacation mess-ups.

What is the worst thing that can mess a trip up, here are several.

#1 - Car accident! Fortunately, I have had car trouble, but never an accident.

#2 - Inclement weather! This trip was the strangest! It rained in Topeka, Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and La Crosse. Not to mention the hail storm leaving Spearfish Canyon. It was so thick it looked like snow on the roadway. See photo above.

#3 - Kenny Rogers! Now you are wondering why he could mess up a trip. Well, he was going to be somewhere near Pleasant Prairie, WS. So we couldn't get a room, so we moved on to Michigan City, IN. Which took us through Chicago, and a terrible grid lock due to an accident at I-94 & I-57. A normal trip of an hour and a half turned into a long drawn out evening. We got into Michigan City after 8 PM, we had started out at 4:30.

#4 - Sickness! Sickness isn't a stranger to DH and I. But this is first time we were both sick at the same time. DH was so sick he couldn't drive, but wanted to get home and see his own doctor. So I drove some long days crossing South Dakota and Minnesota.

We are both still recuperating, so we had to cancel our first show of the summer.

Cathy 6 25, 2009

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Sorry This is So Late

Julie Magers Soulen
















Gypsy Msoon Design

















I want to thank Gypsy Moon Designs and Julie Magers Soulen Photography for nominating me for the "One Lovely Blog" award. Unfortunately, at the time I was sick. More on this on my next blog post. I couldn't let their kindness go by without thanking them.

It is really a lovely award! Thank You friends!

Cathy 6/21/09

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Ice Tea or Coffee

Come on in, this is our 2nd meeting of the Artists Coffee Club. This week we are featuring Linda from California, LDPhotography.

Linda is not only an accomplished photographer, she also makes wonderful jewelry and art pendants. Check out her shops on Etsy and 1MK.