Renovation

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I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change…
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.  – Erica Jong

Unless you’re dead, change is inevitable. Everything changes; some things more slowly than others. If we are afraid of the changes we initiate we can slow them down perhaps but not stop them.

  • Life goes on with or without our consent!

To fully embrace life means to know that it’s finite, that every choice has a consequence, and that change CAN be good. It’s all in your perspective. What comes after a change CAN be better than what was before, and if we choose the change and the rate at which it occurs then all the better.Everything Changes with watermark

I will be undergoing personal and physical renovation for the next few years and will not be putting up new posts in the foreseeable future. I send my sincere thanks to all followers and readers, known and unknown to me.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Cat Stuff

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We have a lot of cat stuff including cat-themed dish towels. Here are more:
a pillow for the living room couch
Cat pillow
a pillbox
Cat Pillbox
a bento box (courtesy of Joanne Fink’s trip to Japan one time)

a cat-shaped cookie cutter
Cat Cookie Cutter
a switchplate thoughtfully sent as a gift by my friend Lilo
Switchplate
and a small round container, purpose unknown but very pretty.
Cat Box Round

Cat Calligram – Poem

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My favorite cat calligram was this poem from “Cat Fancy” magazine which I wrote out starting at the tip of his tail:

“He walks my length at six a.m.,
the house is deep in slumber.
He fixes me with slit-eyed stare,
he knows he has my number.
I open a reluctant eye to gaze in his direction.
He undulates a throaty purr,
sure of my attention.
We tiptoe through the quiet house,
both knowing where we’re headed.
The sooner he has breakfasted,
the sooner I’m rebedded.
I tuck my weary body in to sleep until eleven,
but just as I drift off (you guessed)
he walks my length at seven!”
- © M. E. Wilson, January 1991 CAT FANCY Magazine

I had it matted in purple (of course!) on a purple mount. (Yes, I know it looks blue here. Trust me, it’s purple.) It now lives between the front door and a window. Oh, it’s on paper I made.

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Cat Calligrams – Season’s Greetings

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I’ve done many a calligram in my time, where the words make the shape, and mostly of cats. For quite a number of years when we lived in Pennsylvania I went over to cat calligram postcards for holiday greetings which I had printed in green or red or both so all I had to do was address them on the other side and plonk down a stamp. Easy peasy and less money than regular cards in an envelope. Everybody loved ‘em. I made the outlines from cat photographs on my cat-a-day desktop calendars.

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Calligram4This last one was printed with the box in green and the cat in red.
(Can’t find one now!)
Merry Christmas everyone, from our family to yours.

Cat Sculptures

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Do we have cat sculptures in our house? Why yes we do!