Say This Three Times Fast: I Heart Cathy's Corgi Art & Classy Chassy's Sassy Corgi Cards

After framing and hanging lots of paintings and prints that were piling up for months, it's time to expand our Corgi art collection again. It's fun to search for Corgi art online--please let me know if you make any!

I (finally) found Cathy Santarsiero's The Christmas Corgi. She is an amazing artist, and paints adorable Corgis. Check out the "Mad Scientists", where Corgis in lab coats appear busy creating Tesla's lightning and performing curious lab experiments. My science-loving son truly appreciates this piece (it activates his funny bone) so it has found a place in our collection.

Her agility pieces are my next target--there are several in the nub-loving agility series. In "Agility Corgis Gone Wild", Cathy explains that "performance Corgis took over the course while their owners were reportedly distracted by Cosmopolitans and Chocolate Martinis, although this can not be confirmed. A Conga line was started by 2 non-qualifiers. Jump bars were intentionally knocked down to serve as impromptu limbo poles." --See why I love her?

As I have mentioned before, ClassyChassy has excellent Corgi cards. In my experience, even quick and simple correspondence brings big grins when sent with Corgi smiles like these. I use place card holders to display my favorites on my bookshelf.

I found comical cards, including a Corgi splat in which the little furkid is so far into the kibble bag, only the famous Corgi butt is visible. You can bet that butt's going on the bookshelf display! Plus, ClassyChassy donates 10% of her sales to the Lakeshore Welsh Corgi Rescue. How cool is that?!?

As famous among Corgi lovers as these talented women are, they don't necessarily need my promotion here, but I could not help gushing just a little...

Just thought I would toss up a photo of Teggie's nursery. Turns out reading the directions saves a lot of cursing the engineers of that Pet Gear crate. But it has a neat handle on the right with a comfort grip so that it can be rolled around with ease, it has the garage door feature which just "snaps into place" during assembly...if you let your son do it for you...and it comes with a lovely plush liner.

The garage door slides all the way in, but I wanted to show off that feature. You can open the top, too, to drop the Corgi in if she's not too keen on the crate at first, I guess. But leaving one side open and offering it as a Corgi bed appeals to me, and there is no crate door sticking out to bang my shins on... Perfect!

If you have not already seen it, go watch Gibson the Corgi win Tug-O-War against the Lab. Priceless!

"God's In His Heaven"...

She is Puppy Poetry...


Tonight the "sullen wind" has stretched my longing to its limits. Are the little ones doing well in the cool spell we're having in Florida? How is our Tegwen fairing? I have been wondering... Then these photos arrived tonight, and although we do not know if we will bring home this baby or one of the Tri's, she warmed my heart with her sable coat on such a blustery night.

Our first Corgi girl was a Black-headed Tricolor Pembroke Welsh Corgi. This is from the final infrared photos I was able to develop from my film camera, and my favorite photo of her. What a little princess she was in her bed of clover!

Birch frame from DA Custom Frames

Which baby? We just cannot decide. We wish all three. I promise to post photos from our next visit this week. Now that their little personalities are emerging, they should make amazing shots. Meanwhile, how lovely to curl up with a photo of a puzzled puppy who could be ours... "All 's right with the world!"

*With apologies to Robert Browning, who captured the strong feelings we have for our Corgi baby!



For a print of Tasha Tudor's illustration of Robert Browning's "Pippa's Song", or Tasha's Corgis--or perhaps a handmade Corgi cookie cutter!--visit her family's shop.

Soon, like Emily Dickinson I will say, "I started Early - Took my Dog - And visited the Sea -"

Look What Came in the Mail Today...

Took this as a thank you photo, and thought I'd share with you part of tiny handcrafted world created with the help of some of my favorite etsians. As I was packaging several photos tonight, I thought about how we are using an "online community" to connect with each other through our art . Perhaps it seems sappy, but I enjoy how we use our hearts and hands to give one another more than just handmade goods; we give a little bit of ourselves, the essence of who we are, to the people we do business with online.

As busy as we are, it's nice that technology can lead us back to that simpler, homespun life and authentic feeling of community. I've been selling handmade goods online for ten years, and treasure the opportunity to brighten someone's day, many times someone who is willing to share a tiny bit of her story with me across the miles. Anyway, check out the etsian storybook characters, footprint cookie press, wooden mushrooms, and tiny universes on my shelves that keep my antiques company.

Lovebird Bath

Ricco loves his bath. Even though it was not what I had in mind at the time, he was having so much fun, I had to grab a photo. The way the stream of water, his dancing feet, his flapping wings, and the basin reflecting the light work together, it is truly a one in a million action shot. At least for me. My favorite things to photograph are light and water. It's hard to capture flailing birds, so this photo was a real treat! It will be printed on metallic paper.

Here's another photo with water and light, taken a couple of years ago at the Chesapeake in the Florida Keys.

Moss, Chocolate and Holly Berries

Flora the Faun was listed in my etsy shop today. Thank you, LadyFarrah, for supplying my terrarium hobby with native* moss (*I grew up in Tennessee). My kitchen nook is decorated in mossy green and chocolate brown with red holly berry accents, so the fawn Shawnee planter fits right in. Almost everything in the nook is handmade, much of it by fellow etsians. A few heirloom pieces complete the favorite things theme. Oh, and don't forget the lovebird-ravaged orchids (they are recovering) and lucky bamboo plants in the bay window living happily with the little guardian lizard found in this collage: