"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."— Elbert Hubbard
Ever so true-- there are those special people, girlfriends, who love you no matter what.... the ones you can call at three a.m., obsess about the smallest detail get into trouble with, get out of trouble with, make you cry, the ones you can call when the goat gets in the house and the ones that make you laugh until you pee your pants, the ones where you can years without talking and pick up at the same spot, the ones you call when the shite hits the fan and those you just want to have a giggle with, those are the friends that count. The ones who you call when the dog is greeting the UPS man - with your underwear in their mouth, the ones who help celebrate your 29th birthday ; for the 7th time- the ones that hold the secrets that you don't even know about, the ones that make the memories, the ones that know your soul. Hold on to them. -- because they are rare and precious and love you just the way you are.
smooches caitie
Saturday
Thursday
"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
Fortune teller free clip art
Free clip art
Odd little piece of fortune telling history
Part of an antique postcard-- great for collages, odd ephemera pieces, halloween
smooches .......caitie
ETSY "Begin at the beginning
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Etsy front page number EIGHT-- my lovely little Opera glasses- tres fabu!!!!
smooches.....caitie
Tuesday
summer......... walt whitman
Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic,
nourishing Night!
Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars!
Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!
~Walt Whitman
Wednesday
Our deepest fear................Marianne Williamson
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of all. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of all that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."— Marianne Williamson
I love LOVE love this quote.......... bravo miss marianne!!!!
smooches.....caitie
ETSY FRONT PAGE ITEM NUMBER LUCKY SEVEN....WOW SO COOL
My sweet little vintage cow.......... on the front page
I am so proud of her!!!
smooches caitie
Tuesday
Amy Sedaris..... the amazing.........
"I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone."— Amy Sedaris
Get out. Meet people. Join a ceramics class.
smooches caitie
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...................
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
Thursday
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
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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 lunchTuesday
Monday
Alice in Wonderland...........
"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."
— Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Sunday
"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
Wednesday
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
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
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)
Saturday
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
all rights reserved
Friday
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
all rights reserved
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 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 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
Wednesday
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.
Saturday
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
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.
Friday
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
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