illustration friday - primitive

Due to her primitive methods, success was elusive.

illustration friday - fail

We FAIL to see why you go away on business trips when you know you work for us!

memories

missing my old cat the raven.

illustration friday - save

Save a shelter animal today! Beware of cats trying to pawn off the family dog.

Illustration Friday - Homage

Just another day at "Cleo-cat-tra" central.

Illustration Friday - Pet Pees

what's that? peeves? oooohh...

Illustration Friday - heavy

In preparation for st. patrick's day I wanted to send out a reminder to all, don't forget to have plenty of the black stuff with lots-o-craic (that's guinness and lots-o-fun). Fé thuairim sláinte do cat!

speaking of dinner

apparently i'm late...

soup

my husband made me spinach soup, ummmm. he's such a great cook and i'm so happy he's finally home.

illustration friday - garden

I was going through some boxes and came across some photos I took of the tree of life in Bahrain. Its survival is a mystery, living in the desert without any apparent water source for over 600 years. Maybe it lives off of coffee like I do. So, for no apparent reason, I doodled the garden of eden. (I also realized I still draw like I did in the third grade so not everything evolves).

neighbor's dog

he's not as innocent as he looks

illustration friday - leap

Yea I love extra days plus today is my sister's actual birthday, ribbit, so just a quick doodle, we're off (and leaving too) to celebrate.

illustration friday - multiple

Before we went to the v-e-t yesterday, my kitty got an acute case of multiple-leg syndrome when I tried to get her into the carrier.

Illustration Friday - theory

After all, gravity is only a theory isn't it?

Illustration Friday - Tails and legends

Tails and legends. I haven't posted in so long I felt I just needed to get something up here, so here it is, the tails and legends around our house. If only they could talk they'd have some tales to tell.

illustration friday - little things

We have to be thankful for the the little things in life. It has been a tough year and those christmas lights aren't hanging themselves.

illustration friday - excess

Despite her excess of toys there's still nothing to do on this rainy day.

illustration friday - the zoo

It's a zoo around here so I only have time for a quickie.

illustration friday - superstition

Is it seven years bad luck for sitting under a ladder? (Still experimenting with gouache and missing my black cat Raven).

illustration friday - scale

In our house scale always seems to be a verb.

illustration friday - hat

Wanna watch me pull a doggie out of a hat? Again! (not quite rocky and bullwinkle)

illustration friday - trick or treat

What happens on halloween, stays on halloween.

goddess

bath time

illustration friday - grow

We'll be sitting around watching our bellies grow this weekend while watching college football.

illustration friday - extreme

Extreme Napping. I thought about illustrating my furballs in extreme sports or extreme temperatures, but then decided to draw them doing what they do best.

illustration friday - open

Glad to see these two are finally working together and having a more "open" relationship.

illustration friday - the blues

Cool cats playing the blues. A quick one for this friday, off to the airport to pick-up the hubby after a long trip away which had us singing the blues.

illustration friday - juggling

Cat juggling. A fav-o-rite past time of our new puppa, not to be confused with the ever popular, cat-swinging.

illustration friday - wedding

Okay, well this is really the wedding night....in addition to the wedding night I'm also including the illustration I did for my wedding many moons ago.

illustration friday - momentum

Boy did I need some momentum to get this done this week. It's just a quick doodle of the mayhem that's going on around here with the new puppa.

illustration friday - alpha-pets

As our kitty sits on the beach reading the "ABC's of Dog Training," our first outing to the shore reveals that our new labrador retriever is afraid of the water. Kitten and dog are getting along well, détente is better than devouring.

illustration friday - visitors

My kitty is very worried because our recent visitors left their dog behind. Little does she realize he's here to stay, we just adopted him from a lab rescue group, Labradors and Friends, woof.

illustration friday - captain

The nightly standoff at dinner time between my husband (a navy captain) and a kitten's bounty.

illustration friday - emergency

aaahhhhh...

hello?.....

Amendment IV.

illustration friday - missing

I'm missing the east coast — my friends, 90 degree "it's not the heat, it's the humidity," rats the size of small dogs, rowing on the potomac, wearing black tights, rushing around on high octane coffee and watching college football in the afternoon not at breakfast (beer makes my fruit-loops soggy.)

my world is beige

Everywhere I look are brown boxes. I need some colour in my life but I can't find my paints.

illustration friday - moon

They danced by the light of the moon, the moon, the moon, they danced by the light of the moon. Here is my kitty à la owl and pussycat with un lapin sur la lune. (I'm a little cat-a-tonic after our move, could use a nice gin-n-tonic.)

second verse, same as the first

One of the many, many nicknames we have for our cat is Anne Boleyn. So named for the way she likes to sleep with her neck stretched way out over the arm of a chair. So here she is dressed as her nickname sake.

illustration friday - poe'm

One of my fav-o-rite poems is The Raven which is what we named one of our kitties, who came a rap-tap-tapping at our bedroom door one cold day in October fifteen years ago when we were living on Capitol Hill. The Rave unfortunately passed into the great literary cat society in the sky a year ago. Her fav-o-rite foods were pizza, cream cheese and cheese doodles (ummm crunchy cheese.) I get all misty whenever we have pizza (which we had last night) and can't even look at cream cheese. So here is my Raven poe'm from dear old Edgar.

procrastination

Yes, I should be packing but I thought I'd do a quick doodle of my dog-in-law, Nadia.

yawn...up all night

My crazy kitty was up all night running from window to window. I don't know what she sees out there, I can only imagine.

on the road again...

Well we have to move again. If I didn't know any better I would think we were in the witness protection program or more likely, running from the law. Such is life in the navy, at least we get to stay on the island.

illustration friday - discovery

Team Discovery. I've been watching the tour de france this week (love those boys in lycra) and couldn't resist this take on discovery.

le tour

Enjoying the boys in lycra dancing on their pedals.

illustration friday- geeky

My geeky pets playing together in the yard.

Happy 4th of July!

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it — Mark Twain