Sad departure

Yesterday was the memorial day of my darling cat Hagi.

After she's gone, she has sent lovely kittens to look after our family.

And I heard the news that Tama the famous cat station master

died on monday.

She must be sad to leave her human family but very happy to see her

mom and sisters in Kitty heaven.

Tama, you are infinite light.

My little Ninja Cat

I have been reading Erin Hunter's

Warriors series which gave me

this inspiration what my cat might be

doing when she goes out during the night.

Kimono cat

To become a Kimono beauty,

you need to have a certain figure.

Pettit, narrow & slant shoulder,

no bumps & curves yet not so skinny.

These days, even Japanese girls

rarely have this kind of figure.

Cats might be the only creature fit

into this description.

Waiting for the sunshine

It's winter here.

And our land is covered with

a long rainy cloud.

Neighbour's beautiful lawn has

turned into a paddle.

Our cats seemed to got tired of

staying at home all day long and

they decided to go out.

I'm sure they'll be coming back like

kids after swimming lessons. 

Ladies day

When I went to Japan a couple of years ago,

I saw this rose poster at the train station.

Instantly, I thought I had to see this exhibition.

But I was with my elderly mother who had

a knee problem at the time.

There was no way she can walk to the museum.

So I asked her to wait at the station

 and ran to the museum all by myself.

The show was so wonderful!

Many master pieces done by

Redoute and Parsons were breath taking.

And the rooms of this show was  actually

filled with rose scent infusing through

air conditioners.

Such a great idea by curators.

I still don't know what was the special occasion though

the day I visited the museum was " Ladies day " and

every female visitors got a free pass.

http://www.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp/artmuse/

Daffodil

Daffodils bring gorgeous scent of 

spring.

Quietly but surely.

Gold fish would be dazzled

if they could swim amongst

these spring beauties.

Dahlia

I like bulb and tuber flowers.

Once they were planted into the soil,

come out to say " hello "

year after year.

The second teapot aquarium captured

sweet dahlias.

My secret passion

I have a thing with teapots.

And I also have been dreaming about

having my own waterlily pond with gold fish.

Ohhh!

This is just what I wanted !?

Not quite.

But  it's fun to have teapot aquariums.

Nekobiyori

Nekobiyori is Japanese cats lovers' magazine.

My illustration was featured in March issue.

I'm a bit thrilled.

A year on and new beginnings

This is the last healthy image of our Cathedral.

Christchurch was hit by massive earthquake in September 2010.

And have been suffering waves of continuous aftershocks.

City was recovering from Boxing Day aftershock and 

no one was expecting what to come on 22nd of February.

We lost many lives, buildings and other things. Yet we found our inner strength, kindness and

true beauty of ourselves. People we loved and things we cherished are keep on living inside us.

And we will live to make them proud.

We love Christchurch OXOX

Visitor

Big guy comes around to our house.

I can't pat him so captured him in my picture.

Caffeine

Art House Co-op's the sketchbook project tour 2011 has started this weekend

at the Brooklyn Art Library.

It would be a great fun visiting this exhibition seeing all the fantastic work.

This is one of my sketches from the sketchbook project work.

And I've been re-working on it using water colour.

This looks more like Caffeine the cat himself.

Digitally collaged with vintage coffee ads.