To the father of our family,

Thought bubbles:
Lulu : “Om” I like to refer to Lulu as “on retirement.” She is 10 years old, Ben’s Beloved (he sings her more love songs than he does for me), hates cats; loves people, sunbathing, relaxing, sunbathing, and more relaxing

Blaquan : “?” Blaquan is our little “it” child. She was originally going to be put down because she was “unsociable” or something, but Ben saved her and 4 years later, she has surrendered herself to human companionship. She is still highly skittish though and always a little bit lost… meow? meow?

Me : “<3" Always and forever

Mikah : " ( . ) ( . ) " Booby. Milk. Hungry all the time.

Vasia : " *food* " Oh Vasia, my crazy little fat cat. Vasia is like a dog- intelligent problem solver, a little manic, attention seeker (demander), and eats just about anything. She often does naughty things to get our attention so we can feed her. Spray bottles and sticky tape mean nothing to her.

And that is our little family.

Hope you are all having a beautiful Father's Day!

Something is brewing in the house of Kitty Baby Love!

Ideally we will have these ready in time for a debut at the Renegade Craft Show, but with time, transportation, and financial limitations, Who knows what will happen…
So, after staring at a can of chalkboard paint I recently bought, Ben came to me with an idea….

After shooting back and forth ideas, we finally decided that it will look something like….

We’re very excited for it. Stick around for updates and progress reports

We also got our 6′ table yesterday and decided to set it up in the living room- so we can look at it and play with the display. We like the look, but still need to fill it with merchandise.. As you can see, we still have a lot more work to do.

Recovering from giving birth has been quite the journey! It feels like I haven’t been able to move around for a year, even though it feels like Mikah is still just a week old. It’s been 3.5 weeks already! How time flies…

Now that I do have more mobility, I’ve started preparing for a craft show Ben and I will be doing this July. We really planned to start preparing sooner, but you know… baby and all

We’ll be in the Renegade Craft Show when it comes to San Francisco. We’re really excited because of the scale of the event. A bit nervwracking as well since, at this point in time, we are as unprepared for this as you can get.

Renegade SF JULY 18 + 19 11am – 7pm Fort Mason’s Festival Pavillio

Please meet our partner’s in crime (we’ll be doing a group showing at the event):
Jeyn Reyn
Mama’s Magic Studio

Ben and I have designated tomorrow, Monday, as our official *Let’s Get Busy and Start CRAFTING!* Day. We got a small headstart on it this weekend though…

Ben has a few woodblock prints he’s carved but has not printed (for whatever reason). This is one of them- Breastfeeding Kitty!
We’ll be making a few cards out of them and selling them at the craft show as well as in our shop soon. He did a blue and yellow colorway. We like the yellow best.

On May 18th at 2:56am,

after 9 hours of labor,

Mikah Sage C. gracefully sailed his way into this world via a gentle home water birth.

It was the most incredible experience I have ever had.

Ever since Mikah’s emergence, I feel as though I am walking through a dream. My days are a kaleidascope of tiny white pearls of breastmilk at the tip of nipples, seedy mustard yellow wet diapers, tiny pink lips in shapes of upsidedown U’s crying, and bright brown almond shaped eyes staring off into the unknown.

…I can’t believe he is finally here!

9 months of incubation and a week of counting past the due date, and now he is here. This amazing spirit finally decided that it was time and made it’s way into this world. Ah, and now I can say that I am the mother of Mikah! …Miraculous.

Today we celebrate his 3rd week of life.

[And for anyone in San Francisco interested in a home birth, I highly recommend Awakenings Birth Services. They provided us the means to having our desired home birth. Such a blessing.]

Ben found a green bee in our grassy area today! I almost didn’t believe him when he said he “saw the most beautiful green bee”

It was metallic green with yellow pollen filled legs. Beautiful indeed!
After a quick google for “green bee”, we learned that our little friend is called a Halictid bee, or sweat bee. It cools itself by continually regurgitating liquid and reswallowing it!

Ah, the air is warm and life is good. The kitties now bathe in the shadows instead of the direct sunlight, and our little plants are happily growing. Ben’s bamboo is shooting new shoots, the tomato plant is thickening it’s stalk and has a flower, our newly planted basil is beginning to sprout, and our avocado tree is shooting new leaves as well.

Now if only Mikah would arrive……

This week is the week our first-born, Mikah, is due. Unfortunately he has not yet come so Ben and I are just waiting around for him to arrive. *sigh*

In the meantime I’ve compiled some items that I’ve found on etsy.com that I would love to buy in the future. I especially adore baby shoes! They’re just so cute!

1. $30 Recycled Lambswool Baby Shoes by woolybaby
2. $21 A cat eating a fish pouch by Mairuru
3. $45 Pure – 1 – Mini art feeling by ArtMind
4. $20 Green and Gray by tinywhales
5. $53 Folding bag by mehran
6. $32 mini bunny sculptures – set of 3 by prettyrandomobjects
7. $65 LARGE kitten with wings by SuspectShoppe

Photo: Vasia (vey-sha) kitty ♥

by Saskia Davis

• A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
• An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
• A loss of interest in judging other people.
• A loss of interest in judging self.
• A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
• A loss of interest in conflict.
• A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom.)
• Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.
• Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
• Frequent attacks of smiling.
• An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
• An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.

WARNING:

If you have some or all of the above symptoms, please be advised that your condition of inner peace may be so far advanced as to not be curable. If you are exposed to anyone exhibiting any of these symptoms, remain exposed only at your own risk.

Have you met Maru??

I am so in love with this kitty! He reminds me a bit of Vasia.
A little bit chubby, a little bit strange, and absolutely adorable

Introducing, Kitty Baby Love Coloring Books! “What Kitties Feel” is our latest item for sale, inspired by our 3 little kitties at home. Currently it is 5 coloring pages available for download at just $2. Our end goal is to have a book with 26 coloring pages that have an emotion and illustration for every letter of the alphabet. That won’t be finished for a few more months though…

For now we are including a half page sample of “Wonder” kitty in every Kitty Egg Crayon purchase. Also, we are giving a full-sized version away for free for all of our newsletter subscribers.
You can subscribe using the form on the left hand column of our blog… under the “e-Newsletter” subtitle.

In addition to being a kitty-maker and painter, Ben is also *quite* the musician. He plays mostly guitar and guitar-like stringed instruments (mandolin anyone?). Recently he has reconnected with an old friend from the past and they have been making new music together- which inspired Ben’s revamp one of his guitars- a 14 year old (his very first electric guitar!) ‘Lipstick Red’ electric guitar.

He painted it matte black and sanded/reshaped the body to look more pointed. As you can see, it is much cooler now….
(he lost the back covers a few years ago, so he made make-shift covers out of some random plastic he found… including a plastic bottle!)

How’s that for DIY!