New York Here I Come!

In just three days, no wait, it's past midnight (AGAIN I'm up late!) so two days, Tuesday, I'm off to New York with my sister Karen to see my cats!

Awww I miss my can cats! Halia was the first one I made, then came Kilikolopi (not sure that's spelled right, but it means Christopher in Hawaiian. In memory of my son. I know he's close by, I'm seeing the number 21 EVERYWHERE again! and he's happy that all these good things are happening for me, it's about time right yo! :0)

I got a phone call on Friday to confirm our attendance at the gallery event, and she hinted to some surprises! I am SO freakin excited!

I've not been to NY since I was a kid, my sister has been many times, so she's gonna show me around. On Tuesday evening we're going to see the play, Next to Normal. And early Wednesday I am hoping to get over to visit the Etsy Lab. I'd love to meet some of the folks over there and see where all the magic happens! Now that will be something cool to blog about! A fun packed few days.

Today I made a new banner (the green one with the blue butterfly on here) and avatar set for the Etsy team I belong to. Getting a lot of nice feedback on it, so decided to offer a deal for fellow ERG (Etsy Recyclers Guild) team members. Check out the discussion page on our team's facebook for more info, and I'll be posting it here soon. Ira built the page not even a week ago, and members are starting to pop on over and check it out. A few have posted pics of their shop items, come check it out!


Signing off for some much needed sleep :0)

my art in a New York exhibit! for Earth Day

Last year I was laid off from my job, to save money I got online to find coupons on things I purchase. One of the sites I went to was Friskies.com, and signed up to get coupons for cat food for my 2 kitties.  Like most sites you register on, they send out the occasional newsletter, which I hardly ever read, but one particular one I did, and SO glad I did!

Friskies wrote a blog post  asking for entries in an art project (Together We Can) to promote recycling. The objective was to create cat inspired art out of (empty, clean, Friskies of course) cat food cans. I applied, was accepted and started cooking my idea. By the time I read the guidelines I had my idea all worked out and knew just what I wanted to do, although the guidelines didn't fit with my idea. So I had to rethink the whole thing, which I wasn't too happy about and almost backed out of it. One of the guidelines was that you had to use 10 cat food cans. My idea only consisted of 3 cans, and it took me about a week to figure out how the heck I was going to incorporate 7 more without changing my whole design.

We were allowed to use Fancy Feast cans too, so I took 7 cans and just started playing with them, like children's building blocks. I arranged them and rearranged them some more, until I finally saw it! A sand castle!

The idea was purrrrfect! and fit right in with my beach theme.

I worked on this project for a few weeks and had some heart pangs when I had to give them up and ship them off to New York.

I'll see them again in the RePURRposed gallery event on Earth Day - April 14 in New York! I'm SOOO excited!

You can see more photos of my cats here: my flickr pics

And I'll be sure to update here after the show!