More pages from my ongoing journal chronicles.
I continue my love affair with the security envelope. The second the mailman drops the goods in my box I am on the porch. The letters and envelopes with checks inside and mailart are getting tossed aside and I greedily rip open the bills and junk mail searching for that moment of narcotic bliss. That moment when I find a New and Different pattern. Oy. With this level of intoxication who needs martinis?
My sister sent me these photos of her giant house cats. She insisted that I post them forthwith!
Will you get a load of the crispness of these shots. I’m almost convinced that a Nikon is in my future.
Only problem is no matter how great of a camera I get, the cat posse will NEVER have clean and tidy faces like this. No siree. My cats are barroom brawlin’, squirrel catchin’, bird chasin’ bandits. Not a gentleman or lady cat in the bunch.
Meanwhile my other sister caught these sweet little foxes romping in her backyard.
Looked like a mother and her pup to me.
Our sky finally ran out of rain about 12 hours ago, but thankfully the night sky is rolling in with a fresh supply.
Stop fooling around.
…don’t ask me to give up my martinis…
You have taken the bird thing to a whole new level! The page with the bird with the photo inside…um Love IT! The sweet little flower pattern around the edge…Love it as well. You are pretty awesome and inspiring with this stuff!
-Heather
Sigh, so many wonders on this blog. Things are settling down a bit here and I am about ready to experiment with stencils. Ready, set, cut.
This must be a good year for fox. Lately whenever we come home in the dark, we have to wait for the little vixen to get off the road.
Laura
I love that the bird is over the man’s face. Very clever.
Your new birds…the negative space images, well I am swooning….
… oh – Mary Ann – what do you use for the stencil itself?
I’ve been wondering…
xox – eb.
have you discovered the red pin stripes yet?
xox – eb.
wonder if the postal service should be concerned? HA! Love it…those photos are beautiful!! What kind of Nikon is it?
How’s the weather out there? Hope not to wild and wooley for you~I use a Nikon, and have for years~I love them. Looking at the fox, make me wish I were back at the lease looking at coyotes, deer, javalina, bobcats…you get the picture!
xoxox
We got a bit of rain here in Joshua Tree, but mostly WIND WIND WIND!!! The colors have been intoxicating. I think I am in love with the raven framing the family photo, or whatever that is. That was fun for my eyes!
Susan darling I will also email you this, but in case others want to know….here is the REAL secret: (and you thought it was a book) SHARP exacto blades. I’m currently using a nice rubber grip exacto handle and Martha Stewart blades (cheaper). I have a stencil burner, but rarely use it. Hand cutting is faster.
The bird stencils & masks are elegant – they inspired me to make some myself. Do you use an X-acto knife or hot stencil cutter? I made my first stencil with the hot tip thing on too thick stencil plastic and made big fat plastic boogers around edges. I cleaned them off but it was still goopy. I then undertook a way too fancy stencil printed on Sheer Heaven (which is great for printing images from computer to cut)and cut it with X-acto. Took FOREVER and made crampy hands, neck and body parts. Now I am using the hot thing on the Sheer Heaven without as many goobers curling up. What are you cutting your stencils into? Ah! BTW, I am using Blo-Pens for testing and single stencil prints; that way I can save my lungs and eyes until I receive the gas mask.
Love the fox and the pretty kitty. Not too many months ago we had 5 playful little foxes (kits, pups?), Mother Fox, and Papa Fox living under the building in our backyard. First I saw 3 of the young outside playing, then the mother came out followed by 2 more of her children. Then the dad came out and said enuf of this playing right out in the open in someone’s backyard and close to a house in broad daylight, no less, and the whole darned family believed him and they ran off to the timber. I took some quick pix thro a window, but don’t think I ever got the whole bunch at once. It all happened so fast, and by the time I yelled for my husband to come see and found my camera, the show was almost over. I wasted too much time just staring and absorbing, but I’d never seen even one fox up close, let alone 7, and I was thoroughly enchanted. But to be enchanted for even a few minutes is probably way better than a picture of enchantment. They just played like little puppies do. Ahhhh, Kansas!
Looks like those gorgeous vixens are still wearing their black velvet full-length evening gloves. Maybe they’re just getting home from a New Year’s Eve romp. What gorgeous pictures.
I love your cat possee and they are just perfect. They need to be rough and tough and hard to bluff if they wanna survive in them thar hills of LA. And I love having their dear faces on your blog so I can see them every time I read about your latest antics.
Happy New Year!
I’m not quite as nuts about the security envelopes as you, but close. *S* Just when I think I’ve gotten all the designs possible a new one crops up.
I keep them all; to what end, I have no idea.
Love your work….your sense of humor….your layout…
….visiting through Judy Wise.
Midnight here, can’t sleep, eesh! Glad you’re enjoying the storm. I’d give my hand for a chance to see foxes, that close! Such intelligent critters! & so lovely! You’re hip to The Daily Coyote blog, too, right? Ditto coyotes. You make me so laugh with the security envelopes. I finally get it — you like the patterns! Me, I like the windows. … & my cat, I think she’s a cross between Mae West and Grace Kelly … and b’lieve me, it’s hard going to figure out which you’re gonna get a piece of!