Randomness

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Words can’t describe how much I love this old wooden puzzle, recently bought at a local antique joint.
Have mercy! Why don’t they make ’em like this anymore? 

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Here’s a pretty typical scene from the studio…Old Georgia (she’s 19) is sitting on a stack of books, waiting for me to flinch, breathe, or move in any way, so she can divert my attention to the kitchen.
She doesn’t remember anymore when she’s been fed. She gets fed constantly.
Thank goodness for those little cans of food they make now! 

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When she is not eating or anticipating my every move, she is sleeping.
Today she has been dressed in a jaunty new cap and scarf by one of my kids.
It turns out that American Girl clothes fit cats pretty nicely, too. 

Make My Day Award!

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Aw, Roz…you shouldnta!
Very sweet of you to bestow upon me the prestigious “Make My Day” award!
As a recipient, I am now bound to pass along the award to five of the bloggerers that make MY day.
I would toss one right back on Roz’s lap if I could, but I don’t think that counts! Not sure who’s gotten them yet, but I proclaim these five as Liz favorites:

1. Barb J. Newman of Cats and Jammers Studio

2. Kim Norman of Stone Stoop

3. John Nez, the Blog

4. Amy Schimler of Red Fish Circle

5. Paula Pertile of Drawing a Fine Line

Visit these fine folks, and I am sure you’ll be hooked, too! Congratulations!

Mega Bunny!

Here’s another picture from a series that I like to call:
“Random Pictures That I Pulled Of the Internet Because I Thought They Were Funny and Now I Have to Clean My Desktop So I Will Put Them On My Blog and That Will Be Swell”

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HOLY COW. That’s a BIG BUNNY.
Don’t confuse it with this Big Bunny. That would be wrong.

Lunch Break

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Don’t you hate it when you’re talking to a nun, and a good, stiff wind just carries her away? This week’s box is an ode to Sister Bertrille, the The Flying Nun. It’s a late 1960’s box, chock full o’ weird charm. There is Sally Field, happily flying over her Puerto Rican convent, probably up to good-natured mischief of some kind.
Oh, Mother- that’s Superior comedy!
This deserves a ranking in a special category of shows with the oddest premises- it’s right up there with I Dream of Jeannie, and Hogan’s Heroes. The art is from the celebrated MAD magazine school of realistic-but-enhanced caricature.
Too bad they don’t make ’em like this any more- the shows OR the lunchboxes!

Oz Box!

I recently made this Wizard of Oz-themed box out of a raw wood box my mother was getting rid of. I decoupaged images scanned from some of the books I have, and painted it Oz-appropriate colors. It’s pertinent now, I guess, that it is the 150th anniversary of L. Frank Baum’s birth. I noticed in the paper today that the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Mass. has original Oz art on display- and so I MUST GO! I was a little annoyed by the review in the paper, though- the reviewer was going on and on about W. W. Denslow’s art from the FIRST book (granted, the most popular still), but then practically blew off John R. Neill’s illustrations! C’mon, now- Denslow’s art was swell, but he only did the ONE BOOK. John R. Neill did 35 OZ VOLUMES, and is the definitive illustrator of Oz, and a genius. All I have to say is- when I get to the Eric Carle museum- there better be tons of John R. Neill art!!