With Jane In Catland: 01/04/08

Friday, January 4, 2008

Blog feature on me and other recent 'mews'

Recently I was featured in woodnvisions blog for my "Calico Queen" painting. The woman behind "woodnvisions" is Diane, who is also a fellow Etsy seller and Etsy For Animals member too! She creates very unique, beautiful and well crafted sculptures and clocks out of wood. I especially love her Poodle Clock

"Poodle Clock" by woodnvisions
So cute! :)

Diane is a wonderful supporter of Etsy For Animals! She is currently in the midst of creating an Etsy For Animals video featuring the work of EFA artists and their pets too, and I'm very excited and honored that I was selected to be one of the artists featured for the video! Thanks Diane for your feature on me in your blog, and also for all the hard work you are putting into this video to showcase and support the art and artists of EFA! I can't wait to see it!

To check out Diane's wonderful wood creations, go to her Etsy shop at: www.woodnvisions.etsy.com/

To see Diane's feature about me in her blog, go to: http://woodnvisions.blogspot.com/2007/12/featured-seller.html

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In other news, I have begun some "Kitty Love" style work for my Etsy shop, since Valentine's Day is fast approaching. I already have this catnip toy available in my shop right now!

This is a super cute catnip toy that I sewed by hand and is completely filled with 100% organic catnip! I have made these retro style catnip toys for my own cat, Abbey, and she loves them! She assures that your cat will love their very own retro style catnip toy too! I love the fun and flirty look and style to this toy, and all the pink flowers and hearts is very festive and purrrfect for celebrating Valentine's Day with your cat(s)!

Also available in my shop is this adorable and sweet painting print

"Gretchen - Kitty Angel"

This is a high quality print of my original painting based on the second cat I ever had, Gretchen. She was a very pretty long haired white cat with very long whiskers, and two different colored eyes, one green - one blue. Gretchen also had the cutest high pitched mews, and had a very girly purrrsonality. This print is ideal for fans of white cats and also the color pink!

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I also recently picked up some new cat themed fabric, as well as some new ACEO cards and other craft supplies that I look forward to working with to come up with some new creative cat designs. I only wish there was more than 24 hours in a day! I always have so many ideas for new arts and crafts, but never seem to have enough time to complete them all in the time frame I would like. But I will still have some new items in my shop soon, so keep an eye out to see what's in store! Valentine's Day is an especially fun time of the year for me to come up with "Kitty Love" items!

You can visit my Etsy shop by clicking here: www.janediamond.etsy.com

And speaking of "Kitty Love", on February 3rd, "Harmony House Cat Shelter" in Chicago is holding their annual Valentine's Day open house! If you live in the area, you should stop by. There will be lots of cute and crafty items that you can buy that helps support Harmony House, yummy cupcakes and other sweets, a raffle, and of course, you can visit and share your love with all the lovely cats and kitties there too!

To find out more about Harmony House, as well as this event, go to: hhforcats.org

Here is my commissioned painting that I did for their Valentine's Day open house