A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CAROL OF TWO CATS

2017 was the magical year of the cat or I should say cats. A brother and a sister duo magically appeared at our back door on my daughter's birthday October 27th. It actually was Black Cat Appreciation Day as well in the UK and one of the little ones happen to be black. My daughter, M, and I knew just then we had our story. 

"When a star is born They possess a gift or two One of them is this They have the power To make a wish come true" 

This was January Post for Happy Caturday

Something New and Something Old Theme for Happy Caturday


Bat and Maggie are now 4 years old and today they are making a wish for the New Year.


May our world be a safer place than yesterday.♥️🐾🐾♥️🎄
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year🌹




WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR


~ CLIFF EDWARDS


When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt, out of the blue
Suddenly it comes in view
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true
When a star is born
They possess a gift or two
One of them is this
They have the power
To make a wish come true
When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do
Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longings, ooh
Like a bolt, out of the blue
Suddenly it comes in view
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true


When You Wish Upon A Star

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians 

Vocal Chorus by Carmen Lombardo

Time to write that little book of ours.📕🐾🐾🎄in 2022

Not much else to do these days 😊

A few art pieces I painted for the storybook and some of the photos M took of Bat and Maggie and the rest of the gang that will be characters in the story. Our golden girl, Grace, our garage sale cat, Elliott, Karson the church cat, 

In a Safe Place

I Miss You

A Mostly Ghostly Night

Haunted Chateau 

All in the Family

Old Quebec

Portrait of Uncle Herman 

Little Bat

Ghost, Spooks, and Boo

 The Spider and The Cat having a Midnight Chat

 Little Bat and his Witch

When you look like a Little Bat, I guess the name fits

Beautiful Little Bat

Green Eyes ~ Bat and Maggies' dad

The Three Amigos 😇😇😇

 

Maggie a purrfect Ballerina

Grace

Bat under the table

Swinging Elliott 

Grandma Elliott

The Little Bat 

Maggie and Bat

MORE CHARACTERS TO COME

Inheritance

There's a house in Kemptville which has a fireplace under the stairs.
I fell in love and, I saved the realtor's brochure in my book box of art I someday would like to paint.

Summer came and went in a flash. My mood was in a shadow and, then, Autumn arrived and October. The chill in the air, the trees turning beautiful yellows, oranges, and reds, the beautiful moon at night all filled my senses. It's the month of October that always stirs my spirit, of course, our cats as well. "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."If only more months would do the same for my mood as October does.

It's almost four years now, on October 27th, 2017, when Bat and Maggie, our two little rescues, showed up at our back door on M's birthday and Black Cat Appreciation Day in the UK. Bat is a black cat, well, a brown-black Nordic cat; imagine the coincidence. Magical! Because of them, our days are busy with photoshoots, paintings and, stories. M loves doing the photoshoots and, I love painting the two little Gremlins.

"Inheritance"- my latest painting, began with the Fireplace Under The Stairs and Halloween. I can't help it. I'm bewitched by October.
Bats, cats, pumpkins and, ghosts are purrfect for a Halloween Night in Uncle Herman's old cottage. Oh, did I tell you? I almost forgot to mention Bat and Maggie inherited Uncle Herman's estate, " Bat Cottage ".

STORY BOOK DAYS THE CRAZY CAT LADY COLORING BOOK

Story Book Days ☆★.٭•:*:•٭.★☆ ☆★.٭•:*:•٭

Every day is a lesson learned. I seriously need to keep a book on computer tech stuff because I tend to forget just about everything I have learned through the years. This morning I searched on creating a watermark and managed to make one in pink for M''s illustration of "E.T." the Cat from the coloring book we are presently working on, "The Crazy Cat Lady Coloring Book".©

We are busy adding coloring pages to our Etsy store every day, working on illustrations, paintings, and writing stories; of course, still working on my snowy quilt, 157 posies from one ball of yarn ( 454g )so far.
"Sleep Walk " ~ is one of several paintings which is part of a story  painted by me

Victorian Roses ~ Finally listed this set on Etsy 

GHOSTALES ~ ETSY SHOP
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/GHOSTALES