cowgirl caitie: this handmade life

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Monday

When a night school ceramics class goes horribly, horribly wrong.......

Sometimes the best intentions go awry

Note to self- pay attention in class

tee hee- smooches caitie

and no, sadly, I can not claim that I make this charming piece

Sunday

Albert Einstein...................

"There are only two ways to live your life.

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as though everything is a miracle."—

Albert Einstein

Etsy Item on front page........ yea!!!

I am SO SO SO incredibly happy to have my little vintage yellow rubber mouse featured on the front page of Etsy.... what an honor..... this is the SIXTH time one of my items have been featured on the front page and each time it is exciting and thrilling as it was the very first time one of my items was featured... so cool, and a big shout out to CutOutAndCollect who put this treasury together....... smooches caitie

Wednesday

Quote E.B. WHITE.....................

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

— E.B. White

I see London I see France.........

These are a few of my new inspirational international antique groupings that I have for sale at cowgirl caities on etsy

Cartier Brisson lavender from PARIS

Cream Twist from London Flea Market

JP Coats threads from US

Lace from London

Bow lace pieces from London

Unity soft thread Made in BRITIAN

Pearls from Paris

Silver string,Blue FLOSSO, lingire thread blue/silver, blue wooden spool thread, H hankey, two yards of blue and white ribbon- from london

blue crochet flowers, 4 glass crystals from a chandelier, embroydered butterfly, silver lace- from paris

Flower bits and Mirror from the North end of the Mississippi

Teapot- I do not know where this appeared from- must be magic

Just as it should be......

Packs International goody groupings $20-$26

Tuesday

free clip art..... the fortune telling postcard.... tres bien

Saturday

Free vintage clipart.......... bookplate.................

Thursday

If a site reappears, so will we. If the criminals move overseas, we will follow

Oddly charming..............Every once in a while I like to watch a movie online...... the movie starts, you can see a movie screen and hear people talking in a wonderful colorful foreign language, the movie is blury and out of focus, and people are constantly getting up and down and you can see them moving around, sound is terrible and sometimes in russian,the picture goes from crystal clear to totally pixilated in seconds flat and then back again. Its like seing a movie in a theater and I find something oddly charming about it........... I thought these movies being posted was illegal but then why were the sites so professional, and up for so long, and offering a huge variety........ these times they are a changing.......

-- a HUGE PIRACY SEIZURE BY THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND OTHER AGENCIES--- I was wondering when they were going to do something.......... they siezed the sites, the bank accounts and the properties of 9 sites........ and even though I am for freedom of speech I do believe in intellectual property ..... I do think this whole seizure is incredibly interesting.

"If a site reappears, so will we.

If the criminals move overseas, we will follow"

John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

I love this very clear susinct, powerful quote.

Wednesday

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

Sunday

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

Friday

Free clip art gypsy

Gypsy- free clip art

smooches caitie

Saturday

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

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

Friday

Lava spittle

Lava Spittle

Knife painting with strawberry jello

by caitie

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