Pet Cancer Awareness Month

May is Pet Cancer Awareness month. Many of you know that Mar is a cancer survivor. Almost 2 years ago he had a boo boo on his tail, it would not heal, we took him to his vet and the vet said it could be cancer. We were like 'ohh it can't be that - he is so healthy'. The test results proved it was cancer. No other cancer was found in his body so we decided to amputate his tail. Since then we have found a few lumps - no cancer!


Last week Mar (also refereed to as Tuxedo Bad Ass) had his teeth cleaned - (every six months we go in), shots and some grooming. He had to get four teeth pulled - including his 2 lower canines. Mar was born with bad gums and requires extra teeth cleaning. He was groggy and sore the first night home. He found Pusheen from Everyday Cute relaxing - excuse the dark quality - it was night and the lights were low.

Please take the time to read up on pet cancer here : PCA and make a donation if you can! I am wearing my blue bracelet all month long and telling the story about how little tails rock!

2011 Vegan Bake Sale Of Modesto

I organized the second annual vegan bake sale for Modesto again this year. I got to make new friends, help out Humane Society of Stanislaus and Alley Cat Guardians with the money we raised and see a bunch of old friends too!


I gave away cook books to those who spent $25 or more. I also I brought out some vegan literature to give out!


We had green tea cupcakes and I made Kendy Bars (rocky road bark with dandies).


There were two tables packed with goodies from cake bombs to bloodies even caramel corn with cashews! You can see Matt helping out in the back!


I wish I got more pictures! I was busy talking and trying to get people to buy! I want to thank The Urban Sheep for letting us have it in front of their store and letting us use their pens and tape which I forgot my supply at home! We raised over $230 for the animal in our communities! Awesome!

Baby Birds!!!

I just wanted to post that baby birds have been spotted in the nest on our front porch! The lil clouds of grey fluff in the video are baby birds!!! If you stand under the light and listen you can hear tiny little chirps! So sweet!!!

Anniversary - Easter Weekend

Over the weekend my boyfriend and I celebrated our five year anniversary. We headed up to Sacramento for a day of eating, shopping and having fun.



First stop was to Never Felt Better where we restocked the store with our goodies and picked up some stuff - like Nacheez - which I will review this week! Jen always carries the coolest stuff!


We had lunch down staires at Sugar Plum Vegan. I had a yummy tofu frittata!


We walked off lunch around mid town. We heard about a designer toy store on our last trip to Sacramento so we searched it out. Dragatomi could easily clear out my bank account. Matt bought me a Bossy Bear and I bought a blind box Miss Cupcake - which was turned out to be the strawberry character - awesome! I am lusting after the kitties pictured! We also discovered Spanglish art gallery/store/work space! I was really into the photos on display by Amanda Lopez. I can't wait to take a screen printing class in the summer!


We looked around Ikea and got some ideas, bought some vases then headed to another part of town. At the mall Matt stocked up on Lego bricks as we sipped a supper yummy blueberry - pineapple kona pop iced tea from Teavana. We stopped at Whole Foods and made our way back home.

In Elk Grove we stopped at Loving Hut for dinner. We had golden rolls and for dinner I got the Golden Beauty with brown rice. Super crispy tastiness!


The Easter bunny brought Mar a cat bed that is shaped like a cat face - he loves it! Also he got a natural paper poof ball as you can see in the corner!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Look At The Goodies I Received!

Over on Ravelry I took part in the Vegan Easter swap. I received my package the other day and was spoiled!


I got the softest organic chunky yarn - I want to make myself something with this, tons of vegan candy bars, organic tomato and peppers to grow and a cute kitty card! I just had to share this lovely stuff! If you have suggestions for simple projects for the yarn I can do please let me know!

Happy Earth Day and have a super awesome weekend!

Some Of My Art

Lately I have been painting. A few times a year Beverly's put their canvas collection on sale and I stock up. My tools of choice, sharpies, paint pens, water color pencils, cheap acrylic paint, my fingers and cotton swabs!


This is "Fair Bear" he made it to Mexico this week!


This is "Matt in His Bearnookie Suit" - it needs to be framed (flat canvas panel) and it will go into Matt's office.


This is ATC sized, it went to my pal in Seattle, it is called "Cub Hailing a Cab"....


This is titled "Mouse Music" - music inspires a lot of my art!


This started it all. I just call it "Sorry", it has no deep meaning - though people kept trying to give the character some outlandish stories. I think I was listening to "Kids" by Sleigh Bells way to much that day!


I have 3 works in progress I hope to finish soon. I will post those once they are done!

Bargain Weekend

I had a busy Saturday with my boyfriend! We headed to farmer's market to check out some vegan skin care (more coming in the weeks to come!), hit up a yard sale, Earth Day at the park where we passed out fliers for the upcoming bake sale, tried having our favorite down town lunch to only find out it was closed so we split a small smoothie from Jamba Juice, mailed tons of stuff out, shopped, had a quick dinner and shot a music video in the back yard. Wow - right?



We hit up a yard sale with tons of strawberry things - I love strawberries but was limited on cash. I bought a ceramic sugar bowl with spoon, a crystal candy dish, a rubber stamp and a Spring time cat to leave at the cemetery for my sister. $5.50 for the lot!




I love bargains! I got the $21.99 bamboo Vera Wang towel at Kohl's for $1.07! I clip coupons - I am not ashamed of it!

I hope everyone is having a fun weekend! I have yard work to do and grocery shopping! I could really use a nap!