Happy Saint Patty's Day 🍀🍀🍀🍀

Happy Saint Patty's Day 🍀🍀🍀🍀

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”E.B.WHITE - WRITING A GHOST STORY

WRITING A GHOST STORY 👀

I am a romantic for ghost stories. 

Spooky, mysterious, and entertaining spooks on tv always trap me for an hour or two in telling their scary tales. I believe many people believe in ghosts. I never was one to keep a bucket list, although I do have a few things on a list I would like to achieve before that time; writing a ghost story is one. I wish I could write, and I wish I could paint, I wish I could play the piano. Unfortunately, I do none of those things well. My writing is atrocious. If not for Grammarly and my daughter, I would be lost. Still, I have the desire to write a spooky story. A couple of quotes by E.B. White, one of my favorite authors, inspire me to keep writing. “I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.” And ... “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.” ― E.B. White. So true. M, my daughter, is my ghostwriter. We are collaborating on this ghostly tale. I recently watched Eugene Levy's, 'The Reluctant Traveler. He met up with a gondolier in Venice and talked about working with their kids. Mr.Levy mentioned how much he had enjoyed working with his son Daniel for seven years. So now, mother and daughter are working together on a ghost book. Today is my birthday; I turn 66. I was born on March 10th, 1957, a wonderful year. And the year I die, well, hopefully, be just as wonderful. No matter how difficult, I want to reach my goal; write the ghost book with my daughter. In the end, I leave behind an artistic legacy for my children. When one has a will, there is always a way. ♥️ Annabelle & M ♥️ © 2023 @batandmaggie

MAGGIE

BAT

MY HAUNTED HEART

Becoming old isn't all bad. There are perks like spending your retirement years searching the beyond and wondering about your next life. 👀Will we have a home like here on earth with a willow tree and a pond? A pet or two, maybe a cat and a dog or more? Will the afterlife be the heaven God promised us? One day will have the answers.

BAT @batandmaggie

MAGGIE @batandmaggie

When I was very young, I was unaware of death. And when I did discover the sad truth about life ending one day, that we didn't live forever, the afterlife started haunting my heart. Since then, I've fallen in love with ghosts and cats, the living ones. Of course, books about ghosts/ cats are a favorite. Why not write one of our own? So, here is the next installment of our Ghost Book illustrations. 

Bat, Maggie, and their ghost are in their Victorian cottage hidden in the secret woods no one knows.


"Maybe, we do go home, finally " - Anne Rice


"Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see."

As I mentioned before, these paintings are almost complete. If I feel something I've missed in the process, I will return to it and add in hopefully, removing nothing else from the illustration. Editing not only the writing but the illustrations as well. Some may never make it into the book.




A mother/daughter Ghostly Adventure, writing together for the first time about their favorite subject, the supernatural.

♥️ Annabelle & M ♥️

© 2023

A TISKET, A TASKET, A CUTE EASTER BASKET HAPPY EASTER 🐾🐾🐣🐣🐣🐣🐾🐾 HAPPY CATURDAY

A TISKET, A TASKET, A CUTE EASTER BASKET


FOR THE APRIL 16TH/ 22 HAPPY CATURDAY THEME "SPRING CATS" Maggie and Bat were home alone all day while we worked on the old house. Looking forward to listing it soon and focusing on the new house, making it cozy for Maggie and Bat, and of course us : )


Happy Easter 🐾🐾🐣🐣🐣🐣🐾🐾 Happy Caturday

 

ANTOCCINO'S TALE - CAT TAILS

Bat and Maggie have a new friend and pet, a cute baby horse. They named him Antoccino, after mom's favorite coffee drink of one-shot espresso and an equal amount of steamed milk. Bat and Maggie thought the name suited Antoccino's beautiful chocolate brown and creamy white colors of his hair, and so did I. That first day when Antoccino arrived, all Bat could do was sit on Antoccino and stare at his gorgeous fluffy whitetail. I think he forgot he has one too.

❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️❤️  HAPPY CATURDAY  ❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️❤️ For April 2nd Theme - Cat Tails

❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️❤️

 ❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️❤️

LOVE - HAPPY CATURDAY ❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾❤️♥️

"Love" HAPPY CATURDAY❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾❤️♥️ for the March 26th Theme - "Favorites"

Maggie and Bat, an archived photo of the two little rascals showing their brotherly/sisterly love.

In 1982 we married. I wanted the long veil that Princess Diana wore on her wedding day in 1981 and this song for our wedding. I didn't get either one. I gave the John Lennon record to my dad to give the DJ, unfortunately: he left it on the back dash of the car and warped. Not a purrfect wedding, a lot of things went wrong that day. After all these years, we are still married.


❤️♥️ LOVE ❤️♥️

Love is real, real is love

Love is feeling, feeling love

Love is wanting to be loved




Love is touch, touch is love

Love is reaching, reaching love

Love is asking to be loved




Love is you

You and me

Love is knowing

we can be




Love is free, free is love

Love is living, living love

Love is needing to be loved






LISTEN TO THE SONG HERE

❤️LOVE ❤️- JOHN LENNON

WHAT IS LOVE?

WHAT IS LOVE?

THIS IS LOVE! ❤️♥️❤️♥️🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️❤️♥️❤️🐶🐱

All the love and affection for each other and their humans.
Reposting this photo - TOO MUCH LOVE❤️♥️❤️♥️ NOT TO SHARE ONCE MORE.🐾🐾🐾🐾 They always LOVE!

🏡 HOME IS WHERE YOUR FURRY HEARTS ARE.


For the Happy Caturday March 12th Theme ...Love and Affection.❤️♥️🐾🐾❤️♥️


Sorry folks, my photographer is busy writing at the moment, so I'm sharing an old photo of our beautiful pets.

 

POWDER'D WITH STARS

POWDER'D WITH STARS


I see The Milky Way in Maggie's eye.“


A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
Soon in the galaxy, that milky way
Which mightly as a circling zone thou seest
Powder'd with stars.”

― John Milton Paradise Lost

 

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

Happy Caturday - October 23rd Theme - Heros

I, I will be Batman,

And you, you will be my Super Girl

"We can be heroes just for one day."

HEROS - David Bowie