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Kitties and some old pottery

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What is going on? Well, I have been working on kitties but I started from scratch so I am building up inventory of all the parts.

But first; I was looking around on Ebay this past weekend because some of my pottery bowls came up for sale. (I have an alert on Ebay for my artwork) These are gone already, but I found more where the seller spelled my name wrong. Here and here. In case anyone is interested.

Back to the kitties-

Step one; find all the cat appropriate fabrics. Step 2; Cut out and sew up too many kitties! Step 3; sew on the noses, embroider the faces, attach the arms.

Step 4; get them dressed. I haven’t really touched all my lovely fabrics for about 1 1/2 years so I kinda went overboard…

There are even a few more that aren’t sewed up yet. Yikes! Well, I will be ready for lots of future kitties and foxes.

Here are some of my friends, waiting for their turn to be dressed. And enjoying the air conditioning because it is VERY hot in Chicago this week.

Here are some sweet girl kitties that are almost finished- just have to do their accessories. It is so much fun to see things moving forward again. Next I have to make some boy kitty clothes.

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I’ve been having a very social week- unusual for me. It is connected to the new school year although no one in my house is affected by that- first time in more years then I can remember. It is just one of those new month/year things- I need to connect with people I haven’t seen in a while.

I went over to see a friend to talk about studio design… I am probably going to be moving my studio so I am working on the fantasy planning stage- ie looking at other peoples’ spaces, online and in person. She has a lot of my art from the old pottery days. It was fun to see it hanging at her house-

She also had this amazing bit of advertising ephemera. It is a TIME magazine ad from November 1955 for Simplicity patterns. Can you imagine a sewing pattern company advertising in such a mainstream magazine now? Anyway- great Steinberg drawing, so funny text. If you can’t read it, you can check it out here on Flickr- click all sizes.

Last night I went up to Portsmouth, NH with Abby, for the opening of the Teeny Tiny Art Show at the Three Graces Gallery. Wow! Portsmouth is a happening place on the first Friday opening night. Here are Abby’s beautiful birds-

We also got to see Elsa‘s amazing paper cuts. I don’t think there is any way I could get an idea of the delicacy of these pieces without seeing them in person. I’m in awe.

Today, we are waiting for Tropical Storm Hanna to visit. It is very humid.