This is not my photo. This is doomedmoviethon‘s photo. But it is of our fabulous kitty Sparkles, who I miss very much. Look at the ruff! So poofy!
Remembering Sparkles
Posts tagged cats
Cat profiles
This is just some gratuitous cat love. I thought it would be a hoot to illustrate cat personalities by the commands we use for them every week. And then I thought the post was missing a heap of cat photos, so I added them. You are welcome.
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And now, something different
Cats in art – a diversion
Travels of a bunny
It sometimes happens that the smallest cat in the house likes the biggest toys. Spasmo is like that. She will tear through the house carrying a stuffed bunny the size of her own head, moving it from room to room.
Around the library
We upgraded some lighting in our library/dining room/office, so I thought I’d share a collection of scenes including the new lights.
Cat portraiture
I have been somewhat covetous of the portraits people have made of their beloved pets with the pets dressed in past fashions. Upon voicing my desires I have been told “but you can make that.” So…
This is far from a painting or original art. I am brainstorming ideas and playing around with some photos. There could be more to come, you never know. Here is a portrait of Crisco and Sparkles from around 1900. I miss them terribly.
Introducing kittens
Gorgon 
Spasmo
I was not very into sharing when my beloved Crisco and Sparkles passed on last year. After a kitty-less Christmas and many months of coming home to an empty house, Richard and I have adopted kittens (months ago now). I thought it was high time to formally introduce them. This is Gorgon and Spasmo.
They’ve got some growing and learning left to do, Spasmo only just figured out she could push unlatched doors open, but they have given us hints at what crazy characters they are going to be. I’m sure they will begin to crop up in all sorts of drawings after the co-dependency training is complete.
Crisco and Sparkles will live on in their comic incarnations:
Cats before the internet!
The Public Domain Review has shared an excellent little book in the post: Kittens and Cats: A First Reader (1911) — Cats and Captions before the Internet Age. If the internet isn’t giving you enough kittens then look no further!
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Cats
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There was a time when I filled a sketchbook and did not scan it. That time is gone. Wow, just thinking about it, I wonder how much old art stuff I have crowding my bookshelves that the world has never seen?
Gratuitous cat love
While I was trying to snap a shot of her angry face she kept looking away. I ended with with all these pictures and no good one. boo. I suppose it just makes the good pictures of her more amazing:
Cat love
Crisco likes the camera, but sometimes gets too close. He was too lazy to investigate this time and I ended up with a cover for Cat Fanciers magazine or something. Isn’t he handsome?
I have tried to keep the cat love to a minimum, maybe in some vain attempt to resist the librarian trend. Seriously, everyone (bold generalized statement) in my library is obsessed with cats. Want a topic to break the ice at a staff party: Cats. But who am I kidding? Why am I resisting?
I have the coolest cats ever!
Crisco
the amazing re-sizable kitty. which if you eat enough of, you will not be re-sizable, you will be very large. Crisco that is. don’t eat it straight. that’s not what I meant. and don’t eat my cat either. that’s not what I meant.