The Catbird Seat

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits on September 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

After an almost 4-month hiatus, I have finally gotten back to making art. And though it has taken me a week or two to get up the nerve to sit down at my desk and make something for the love of God!, I’m pretty pleased with my first attempt.
Presenting… the Cahaba lily. Blurry photos courtesy […]

Filed under: Catbird, Tidbits, Lillybeth on August 29th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Holding your pee from the time you get up (~6:40 a.m.) until 8:45a.m.+ (I’m still waiting), just so you don’t have to use the baby potty, even though you are in pain.
That’s Elizabeth.
And this is my experience potty-training her.
Strong-willed? Yeah, that’s an understatement.
(and just for the record, the last time she peed was yesterday at […]

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits, Elizabeth on August 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

If, by chance, you have neglected to purchase a high-quality paint stripper for your long-delayed furniture refinishing project, you may have the necessary product in your bathroom closet.
Or sitting directly on top of your grandmother’s 70-year-old Lane cedar chest, as it were.
[remedial parenting: do not leave opened/unlidded products that spray sitting in reach of […]

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits, Elizabeth on May 27th, 2008 | 8 Comments »

There is no correlation between daffodils, long* hair, happiness and 1:00 a.m. except the evidence of all four in the following photos.
I think the dark circles under my eyes are especially telling. Still smiling, though.
Despite what the clock says, that’s almost always what I look/feel like after working on cut paper flowers. And that makes […]

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits, Lillybeth on March 12th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

I watched “Miss America 2008-Live!” last night on TLC. Is that so wrong?
(p.s. IMHO, Miss Virginia should have won, if only for the way she answered her question about religious freedom.)

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits on February 4th, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Today is my mother’s birthday. She would have been 65 years old.
Sigh.
You think I might be used to her being gone, since this year marks the 14th anniversary of her death.
But I’m not.
I still miss her and wish she was here.
Especially on her birthday.

Filed under: General, Catbird, Random Thoughts, Tidbits on November 5th, 2007 | 6 Comments »

I recently received the following comment on “The Short Story By James Thurber” page:
I Hate Your Site &*^%!? I hate James %^&* Thurber!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
The author was listed as, “hateu.” Fitting.
I have to say, I was floored.
Most comments posted on my are generally positive; due in part, no doubt, to the fact that most of my readers […]

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits on October 8th, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Since I have not been blogging, (as some of you have so kindly (ahem!) pointed out) most of you do not know that I have changed my hairstyle once again.
This time I’m growing. And apparently, with growth comes a desire to COLOR as well. At least hair-wise, for me.
So, instead of blogging something that brings […]

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits on September 26th, 2007 | 15 Comments »

At long last, I’ve finally posted some new art on Lillybeth!
I know you’ve been waiting with baited breath. (heavy sarcasm)
I have actually had these two completed for quite some time now, but blog-posting (as you may have noticed) gets harder and harder the more I get into actually making art.
Between that, being a SAHM, and […]

Filed under: General, Catbird, Tidbits, Lillybeth on July 16th, 2007 | 4 Comments »