"With Jane In Catland" is my blog about my handmade paintings, crafts, and other artworks of mine, posts about my Etsy shop, my love for cats and other animals, artist friends of mine, artists who inspire me, animal charities I work for and support, animal rights, various videos, and other random things in my life. Hope you enjoy my on-line Catland!

Showing posts with label kitty love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitty love. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Etsy Shop & Abbey Updates

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been working on some Halloween themed items and other kitty crafts for my Etsy shop - but I lost the battery charger for my camera, and even if I find it or buy a new one, now my photo shop program isn't working! Grrr. So I can't crop, resize and adjust colors to the photos even when I do get my camera working, so it may take me longer to list all my new items. I hope to get that resolved soon, cause I'm so frustrated right now about that, and am anxious to list my new items soon!
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Before my camera died, I took come very cute pictures of my cat, Ms. Abbey, that I thought I'd share here. My cat Abbey is 18 years old (she will be 19 next month!) and is my 'mews' (muse ;) for most of my cat paintings. We've been together for a long time and I feel so blessed to have her in my life for so long. She is the sweetest cat ever, I know everyone says that about their cats, but she really is a fur angel. Abbey has even turned friends of mine who didn't like cats, into cat lovers who now have cats of their own. Abbey is so special and sweet, and I love her so very much!

Abbey sitting on my art desk

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Action shots - Abbey jumping from my art desk (right) to the couch














Cheers from Catland!

- Jane

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Celebrating Your Love for Cats and other updates

So, I'm still recovering from my back injury from when I tore a muscle in my lower back, and haven't had much time to be as active on-line - like updating my blog, keeping up with the forums and sites I frequent, including my Etsy shop. This is due to dealing with the pain, being so busy with my physical therapy and all the meds I've been taking lately. But I am starting to get better, and fortunately I am towards the end of my recovery - finally!

Anyway, in better news, I'm working on updating my Etsy shop and blog. I recently posted two new items at my Etsy shop.

Below is a commissioned painting I did called "Share Your Love For Cats". I did it for Harmony House - a wonderful, cageless and no-kill cat shelter in Chicago. This painting I did was designed to promote their Valentine's Day events, but Kitty Love is an everyday celebration - it's fitting all through the year. It features a sweet faced Russian Blue style cat inside a heart, surrounded by roses and leaves and has a lush red border.

"Share Your Love For Cats" painting print by Jane Diamond


Detail of "Share Your Love For Cats" painting print

I also now have in store this original ACEO cat collage design I did. I had posted about it before, but it wasn't listed in my shop yet. Now it's finally available to all you ACEO collectors and cat lovers! This cat collage ACEO I call, "Catch Your Dreams" as I thought it fitting for the design



"Catch Your Dreams" original cat collage ACEO by Jane Diamond

Both the "Share Your Love For Cats" painting print and the "Catch Your Dreams" ACEO print can be found now at my Etsy shop at: www.janediamond.etsy.com

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In other Etsy related news - I have currently begun to expand my items to other animals aside from cats. Cats are by far my favorite animal (in case you haven't noticed yet;) but I love all animals, and wanted to express that through my arts and crafts. I am happy to say I recently sold an adorable pendant necklace featuring "Georgia", a lovely little lamb rescued by Farm Sanctuary! I actually posted a photo of Georgia, along with some info about Farm Sanctuary in my last post here. Georgia and some other baby lambs were abandoned, unable to care for and fend for themselves (especially at such a young age) and were left to die! But fortunately, the amazing and compassionate people at Farm Sanctuary rescued the lambs, and they all are now living safe, free and happy lives!

Below are two photos of the pendant necklace I made with sweet little Georgia on it



And via the purchase by the very nice and lovely customer who bought this pendant necklace, I will be donating 20% from the sale to the Farm Sanctuary and also an additional 10% to the Etsy For Animals charity of the month!


Til later......
Look for my newest Etsy artist feature on Heidi Shaulis - coming to my blog soon!


Cheers from Catland,
- Jane

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Current Cozy Cat Creations!


Greetings everyone! I wanted to upload some photos tonight of my latest kitty items that I have available right now in my Etsy shop!

It's getting very cold outside, so why not warm your heart with these handmade greeting cards of mine? The design on the cards is from a commissioned cat painting I did for Harmony House Cat Shelter's annual Valentine's Day open house. The painting is called "Share Your Love For Cats". This painting is used in Harmony House's newsletters and their website, and now it can be seen on these lovely greeting cards I made!

Each card is 5x7 inches, printed on card stock, and comes with a bright red envelope. The inside of the cards are blank to write your own personal message. The back of the cards are white and has my Etsy information, as well as information about Harmony House.

Also, 20% of all sales from these cards goes directly to help the cats and kittens at Harmony House! A great way to share your love for cats! :)


These cards make for a purrrfect way to send a Valentine greeting to someone special, or keep it for yourself to hang it up in your house! The cards look great in a 5x7 frame to add some cute kitty decor to your home.

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I have also listed this gorgeous painting print called "Peter the Great". This painting I did in ode to my favorite Victorian artist, Louis Wain! Louis was inspired to create cat art from the very first cat he had, Peter - otherwise lovingly known as "Peter the Great"! And since Louis Wain's cat art and life story have greatly influenced my very own cat art, I painted a portrait of Peter in ode to Louis. This painting print is ideal for fans of black and white cats (or "tuxedo cats" as some people call them), fans of Louis Wain, or just fans of cute kitty art!


Both the greeting cards and the Peter Cat print are available in my shop now. I already sold one of the greeting cards, but have more in my shop. To check them out for yourself, please visit my shop at: http://www.janediamond.etsy.com/


The pictures there of these items are much more in focus at my shop, and I have also additional photos of the greeting cards at my shop too, to give you more perspective on what they look like.


Til later...

Cheers from Catland!

- Jane

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


"Share Your Love For Cats"


Me with my cat Ms. Abbey - Kitty Kisses!


Til later......
Cheers from Catland!

- Jane