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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2007Folk Art
I won tickets to the local folk festival last weekend http://www.illawarrafolkclub.org.au/folk_festival_home.php And I am glad I did because my father writes and performs "Bush Poetry" (anecdotes set in rhyme) at such events, and the tickets to such festivals are usually more than I can afford. It was the first time I had seen my father perform his poems in front of an audience rather than just the family. And yes one day I'll get my father's poems up on a web page. There were many stalls there with folk art, music, etc etc, as any good folk festival should have, a vegetarian food stall run by the local Hare Krisnas (lovely vegetarian curry, but I didn't need that half hour conversation about Krishna to go with it). Bu there was one stall I could have spent all my money and then some on the artwork presented there. Thankfully they have a web page, and thougth I'd share it with you folk. http://www.redwhisper.com.au/ But I was on a very tight budget, so I only got one print. It wouldn't surprise anyone who knows me what it was. Yup, it was the cat. http://redwhisper.com.au/shop/product.php?productid=16294&cat=276&page=1 I have no commerical interest in their studio, just thought I'd share. Yowie > I won tickets to the local folk festival last weekend > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Yowie I really do like those paintings and prints. The cat print you chose is very nice, I also like the sleeping cats etching too. I've been wanting to buy or get art work for a while, but have never been able to bring myself to spend the money. My sister is very good at painting and does really cute and colourful paintings of cats and other animals which I love. I guess logically I should ask her to paint me something and pay her instead. However it will probably take her six months to get it done and a whole heap of nagging before I get to hang something on the wall. Dewi That is WAY cool! > I won tickets to the local folk festival last weekend > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Yowie It must have been a thrill to see your Dad perform before an audiance. Ann  Signatureread Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ see pictures of Sam at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ann791/my_photos >I won tickets to the local folk festival last weekend > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Yowie It was... clearly he was in his element. Such festivals tend to be sit (or lie) down, put your feet up, and chill out type festivals, and would usually bejust hte sort of thing I'd really enjoy on a day off. Unfortunatley a feisty two year old is the antithesis of 'chill out' and kept running around the whole time. The books that say "Although children will run around, they'll not go beyond where they can see their parents" are so so wrong! He raced off out of sight immediately and kept going and going and goign without once looking back. Thank goodness the area was realtively safe, but sheesh! The amount of running I did that day to retrieve him from wherver he got to! As consequence I didn't actually get to see any act do a complete performance, not even my Dad, and hte work-mate that came with me has sworn of having children for like *ever*! LOL Yowie > It must have been a thrill to see your Dad perform before an audiance. > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > > > Yowie > It was... clearly he was in his element. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Yowie Cary sounds like the Duracell bunny. ;-) SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >> It was... clearly he was in his element. >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Cary sounds like the Duracell bunny. ;-) You mean Energizer, don't you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QACZr60LU Yowie, Have you thought of using a child harness for Cary. It looks like the type a climber would use only it doesn't go between the legs and has a leash ( for lack of a better word) on it. When my sister was his age we couldn't keep track of her if we went out and Mom would use one. Some people think it's terrible to use one but, it lets the child run around and not get lost. Signatureread Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ see pictures of Sam at http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ann791/my_photos > It was... clearly he was in his element. > [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] >> > >> > Yowie Yes, we have a child harness ('reins'), and use it regularly. But having a 15kg exceptionally determined child pulling in one direction whilst you want to go in another (often when other hand is carrying something like a plate of food, or coffee, or something spillable/breakable) can quickly render said harness more of a hinderance than a help. Also hurts the back and shoulders. Its like walking with a completley untrained rottweiler on a leash that has fully embraced the Ghandi philosophy of passive resistance (ie, if you force me to go in any other direction than the one I want to go in, I'll go all floppy.):-) Best if I just accept the inevitable, and not take him to such events in the first place. Yowie > Yowie, Have you thought of using a child harness for Cary. It looks like the > type a climber would use only it doesn't go between the legs and has a leash [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] > >> > But I was on a very tight budget, so I only got one print. It wouldn't > >> > surprise anyone who knows me what it was. Yup, it was the cat. http://redwhisper.com.au/shop/product.php?productid=16294&cat=276&page=1 > >> > I have no commerical interest in their studio, just thought I'd share. > >> > > >> > Yowie > Yes, we have a child harness ('reins'), and use it regularly. But having a > 15kg exceptionally determined child pulling in one direction whilst you [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Yowie Remember when he gets a little older and you can take him places like that, it doesn't matter so much that he is wearing something that looks nice as it does he is wearing something you can spot from a long way off. My kids now wonder why they are wearing such bright clothes in our vacation home movies. Jo Very nice artwork. Hope I can toot my own horn here just a little: www.SerenityScenes.com > I won tickets to the local folk festival last weekend > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Yowie What a beautiful cat painting! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek
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