she didnt like her fortune................ free clip art

She was depressed about what the fortune teller had told her. She was told she would never find a lover unless she waxed her moustache. Death to all she cried, those who do not love a fine moustashe-ieo,,,,,,,,,,, and dribbles of plum jam left over from lunch

You decide who you are and who you want to be and you hold on to that and ride it out, like an old west sheriff.

Alice in Wonderland...........

"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."

— Lewis Carroll

(Alice in Wonderland)

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!"

— Lewis Carroll

Vanguard Studios 1970 Wall Sculpture woman .......vanathane

Still deciding whether she is the the ugliest or the coolest.............. marked on back with brass tag Vanguard Studios 1970......... made out of vanathane

madame chaT............................

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”

Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

 

This is a page from one of my favorite antique french books, a charming book with three fairy tales--- this is one of the pages of text-- please feel free to use this as  clip art in your projects - a lovely little bit of french paper ephemera-- and more will be coming--- smooches and happy crafting--- caitie

free phrenolocical clip art.....now if that isnt a mouthful of a word I dont know what is.........

This image is from the lovely graphics fairy.... I had a different image up but hers was so much better- thank you Karen-you lovely fairy, you!!!!!!

I love reading the weird bumps on peoples heads.

smooches caitie

Free clip art gypsy

Gypsy- free clip art

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Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs..........

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."

— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)

free mermaid clip art and writing prompt.........

where mermaids dwell- by caitlin

Tom Robbins sets us straight .......................

"So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free."

— Tom Robbins

primordial chlorophyll west of chicago

primordial chlorophyll west of chicago

finger painting and camel hair brush

by caitie

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Oregon Morning, for Madame L.........

Oregon Morning, breakfast by the stream

inspired by the amazing Madame L

Camel hair, Knife and Finger painting

by caitie

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Lava spittle

Lava Spittle

 Knife painting with strawberry jello

by caitie

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Ok so there is no strawberry jello

Damn, that neil gaiman is good.......

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women.

I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state.

I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.

I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we'll all be wiped out by the common cold like martians in War of the Worlds.
I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.

I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck.
I believe that anyone who says sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what's going on will lie about the little things too.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it."

— Neil Gaiman

pictures by caitie all rights reserved

a blue friday on jupiter

a blue friday on jupiter

knife painting

by caitie

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Snow Day

Knife painting

by caitie

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Tom Robbins- still life with woodpecker-- my favorite Tom Robbins book

"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."

— Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)

 

My favorite- caitie the redheaded cowgirl

Fortune telling gypsy clip art ...

I love this scene- the sewing/advertising aspect-  but the mysterious gypsy woman, hidden in her red shawl--- what does the future hold in store for the sweet gentlewoman, a handsome lover, travel to exotic lands, womens lib.

Free odd little creatures clip art

unauthorized biography.....................

"I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography." — Steven Wright

tee hee i think that some days I am clearly doing this...... tee hee some day are better than others... but a good day writing is better than anything else, even a bad day writing is better than anything else..........
smooches caitie

Writers sometimes spend alot of time looking out of windows, you think they are just daydreaming but sometimes they are just trying to make sense of the world.

tiny dancers ........ ode to Mark Twain

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."

— Mark Twain

We hear this quote over and over, but we should just take a moment to ponder the fact that this is a quote by the wonderful Mark Twain, a man who wrote Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, called by some the greatest American novels.

Samuel Longhorn Clemens,( lord all mighty what a wonderful name) better known by the pen name Mark Twain, had a wonderful sense of humor, a keen satirist, lecturer and of course writer. He was also one of the most widely traveled writers of his day, finding his way across the world, from Madagascar to Bombay, a long way for our very own Mississippi man to travel-- so in his honor today lets really........

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."

smooches caitie

 
 

The misfits and rebels... aren't we all a little.......

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

Cowgirl Caitie, Caitie and Charlie on Etsy Loves Dad Featured Article

I have the great fortune to have an article published on the Etsy Storque blog!!!

Smooches to all of you who have been so kind in the comments and congratulations-- My dad and I are thrilled!

http://www.etsy.com/storque/handmade-life/etsy-loves-dads-collecting-oddities-making-memories-8628/

Secrets

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe."
 Neil Gaiman