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Sunday, July 17, 2011

{Goodbye Gibson...}

This photo is taken ten hours before another beloved feline, Gibson, left this world. Got a comment from Bea from Modern Country Lady, who is the human parent of Gibson, a 16 year old feline, that had to be put to sleep earlier on Saturday morning. You can read about it here: Goodbye to an old friend.

Barty is sitting here and he is kind of musing about life. Can felines sense things? I guess they know a lot... But from across the Ocean we want to send our sympathy and hope you will manage this loss. Living with a fur baby for that long, makes it awfully hard for letting go. The good thing is, that there are still other fur babies in your household, for distracting a little bit from the tears and beautiful monogrammed linen handkerchiefs...

Barty is 7 and he's hoping to live as long as Gibson did...

There are moments that you can feel down but you have to look up again...

As Tammy from T's Daily Treasures had written in her header: Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) quote

Bye Gibson...

Barty's dream did come true, he too lived to be 16+ years... R.I.P. Sweet Barty Boy

Saturday, July 16, 2011

{YES, I did find the Italian artist who did my chalk drawing!}

Just wanted to share with you that the Worldwide Web is a marvelous thing! YES, I did find the Italian artist who did my chalk drawing. Just by chance, Iolanda Sotgiu found my post in Italy and she is the sister of the artist, Mirella Sotgiu. Look at my previous post about it below.

Mirella is still painting, you can see some of her oil paintings: quadri ad olio on Iolanda's Facebook, and also on Youtube: branduardi. Girotondo. quadri ad olio you can see several paintings that Iolanda put on for her. I certainly feel honored for having her work in my living room here in the USA! Oh, her son Luigi is happily married and has a son and daughter. She send me some photos but Luigi does not like to be on social media so we respect that. But it is great to know that all are doing well. SMALL WORLD!