Valentine’s Day

It’s almost Valentine’s Day! Time is flying by. Hope your holidays were great and the new year is treating you well. Cat lovers, don’t forget your cat on Valentine’s Day. Get her one of my catnip snakes made just for celebrating Valentine’s Day. Your cat will purrrrr in delight. Click here to purchase your snake.

Valentine’s Day is for Cats

At least, that’s what my five tell me. So here is this year’s limited edition Valentine’s Day catnip snake cat toy for you to purchase and pledge your love to your felines. Meow.
Click on photo to be taken to my Etsy shop.

New Year, New Snakes

Welcome in the new year with new catnip snake cat toys for your kitties. Bright colors to help add some color to the gray days of winter. Available now. Meow.

First Annual Virtual Art Mart

Stay safe and holiday shop online with me and about 40 other Dallas area artists at the First Annual Virtual Art Mart. The event site will launch on December 5 and continue through December 23 at this location: https://friendsofthebathhouse.org/artmart2020. 

The Friends of the Bath House are pleased to announce that despite the Cultural Center’s closure for much needed renovations, you will still have the opportunity to holiday shop for unique, artistic gifts online while supporting local and regional artists at the Bath House’s first annual Virtual Art Mart. Since 2003, the Friends proudly have supported the much awaited live event and are thrilled that we can continue the tradition online.

Hauspanther Holiday Giveaway

Get ready to win some incredible prizes in our 2020 Holiday Giveaway Series! We’ve been hard at work lining up some of our favorite companies to offer our biggest giveaway ever!

Starting on Monday, November 30, we will launch a giveaway every weekday through December 15 with a whopping 46 PRIZES! You’ll need to pay attention so you don’t miss out on anything, so watch for our daily email, or keep an eye on the Hauspanther Facebook and Instagram. You’ll have three days to enter each giveaway before we announce the winners.

Here are the fantastic companies offering prizes in our 2020 Holiday Giveaway Series:

• Cat Modern
• Catastrophic Creations
• Ciao Gatto Cat Market
• Patti Haskins Critter Central
• Dezi & Roo
• Feline Yogi
• Hauspanther
• Kitangle
• Lil Paws
• Meowy Janes
• Mjau Home
• Modkat
• Pet Fusion
• Pioneer Pet
• P.L.A.Y. Pet Lifestyle and You
• Prevue Pet Products
• Primetime Petz
• RompiCatz
• Sheer Fun for Cats
• Shen and Sam
• Sleepypod
• Square Cat Habitat
• Square Paws
• Sushi Cat Style
• The Cat Ball
• Toasty Cat
• Triple T Studios

Giveaway Schedule

Specific prizes will be announced with each giveaway. See each giveaway entry page for details and rules. In order to spread the love, if you win one of the holiday giveaways, you will not be eligible to win a second giveaway in this series. The holiday giveaway series is limited to US addresses.

Valentine’s Day

The last time I checked in here, Thanksgiving and Christmas were upon us. Then I woke up Thanksgiving with a nasty head cold than merged with allergies and I spent the next month plus mostly in bed and sick, sick, sick.

So now it’s almost Valentine’s Day. I managed to make some special edition catnip snake cat toys so that your cats don’t feel left out come February 14.

Click here to grab one for your felines before they sell out.

artmart 2019

Hello Dallas. If you are lucky enough to live here or will be visiting the weekend of November 22-24, be sure to stop by the Bath House Cultural Center for artmart and start holiday gift shopping artfully! I’ll be there selling all my critter creations. Hope to see your smiling faces.

Holiday Extravaganza

Attention Dallas! I’m going to be selling my creations in person for a change of pace.

The shop formerly known as Makers Connect will actually be popping back up, like Brigadoon, for a short time on Thursday, November 7! Eleven talented artisans, mostly harking back from the glory days of the brick-and-mortar location, will be showing up at Times Ten Cellars, 6324 Prospect Ave, Dallas, Texas 75214 from 5:00 – 9:00 pm.

This show is free to the public. Hope to see your smiling faces in my booth.

Andrea Smith – Tiny retro gem-stone trees
Chris Unruh – Greeter!
Deborah Herzog – Handmade glass bead necklaces
Eliza Epstein – Sterling and gemstone jewels
Hartline Interiors  – Traci Hutton upcycled wood frames, primitive art dolls, handsewn creatures and more
Kelley Cheek – Leather and died silk velvet-bound journals
Leslie Kregel – Cimarrona upcycled hats and sweater vests
Letter Lounge – Meticulously cut-out books and letters
Patti Haskins – Critter pillows, snake cat toys
Reid Barnhart – Upcycled vest jackets and hats
Robin Ayres – Antique toy parts grouped into necklaces
Soapgirl – Rebecca and David Day’s organic soap and haircare
Tom Sale – Pinky Diablo the Artist in Residence will illustrate you!
Tracy Lynn Tucker – Semi-precious jewelry

Time Flies

I really didn’t mean to go this long without updating my blog. Life truly does get in the way sometimes.

I’ve been busy selling lots of catnip snakes (thank you) and making more to keep up with orders.

My llama pillows were selected to appear in a juried art show and were purchased there. (Thank you).

Also I’m working on new wildlife critter pillows that will be on the way to my Etsy shop soon.

Lastly, the saddest was that our dog Mickey died from old age. He was blind, deaf, almost lame but hung in there until his body just couldn’t go anymore. He was adopted as a young adult dog and we guess his age at passing was about 16 years. He is missed.

I will try to pause and take time to keep you updated on what I’m making, doing and finding interesting these days. Thanks for reading.

Holiday Shopping

Consider visiting my and other small shops this holiday season instead of the usual big box store. You’ll be bringing smiles to both the recipient of your gift and the small shop owner. Happy Holidays to you and yours.