Blue runner

blue heirloom rug runner by

Dana Ailer, ACV Juried Artisan

Can You Help?

Do you have room in your family for our 2 sweet kitties?

They’re approximately 5 years old

They’ve been spayed / neutered & declawed

They’re used to being around kids

Heidi-Mo

ginger tabby

Heidi-Mo (who is a boy) was named by my then three year-old daughter. She believed that “Heidi-mo!” is what people yelled as they jumped off something high. So really ‘Heidi-Mo’ should have been named ‘Geronimo,’ but I didn’t have the heart to correct her.

Heidi-Mo has been subjected to all sorts of kitty indignities including being dressed as a princess, dressed as a dragon, covered in glitter, covered in stickers, and harnessed to a little wagon – horse style. He purred through everything. He likes to give withering looks, but even after I extracted him from the harness, pulled off the stickers, and removed his tutu, he always went back for more. Given proper motivation, he’ll even fetch. Heidi-Mo is like a crotchety old man who secretly loves kids.

Josephine
Siamese / tabby mix

Josephine was dumped, along with the rest of her litter, in an elementary school parking lot long before they should have even been weaned from their mother. She’s perfectly physically healthy, but is pretty emotionally needy. If you’d like a kitty to curl up on your lap while you read or watch tv, Josephine is your man.

She’s timid at first and might hide in a quiet room if there’s a lot going on. But once things settle down, she will come looking for love. She’s sometimes put off by rowdy behavior, but as long as they’re sitting still and quiet, Josephine will accept love from even the youngest admirer. She loves to have her head scratched.

Josephine is so eager to please that she will usually come when called and follow you around. She just wants love.

Kitties are currently located in Staunton, VA.

To contact their owner about adoption, please email:

danaailer(at)gmail(dot)com.

Come Have Some Art-y Fun!

Shenandoah Valley Art Center

• Artist Demonstrations
• Music
• Kid's craft lesson
• Fine art Raffle

WHAT: Open House to Celebrate
Launch of Artisans Center of VA Partnership
WHEN: Wednesday, June 20
1:PM - 5:PM
WHERE: The Shenandoah Valley Art Center
122 South Wayne Ave
Waynesboro, VA 22980
540-949-7662

SANRIO TOWN... No, really!

Hello Kitty Villa exterior

Now let me get this straight. There's a SANRIO TOWN? Can you live there??

I mean, not for me of course; but you know, a friend of mine...

Hello Kitty Villa living room

Hello Kitty Villa bedroom

Hello Kitty Restaurant

Sanrio Strawberry Shoppe

Win a Muppet that looks like you!

(Gap Kids promotion in London)

But I'm wondering; do they create a new Muppet that looks like you? Or will they just tell you which existing Muppet you look like? Cause that could be kinda hurtful.

Inside a spire of La Sagrada Familia

Inside one of the spires of Antoni Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, Spain was one of the most terrifying and exhilarating places I've been.

Terrifying because:
1. Its dizzying 400 foot height
2. Its total lack of handrails or really anything to grab onto that might keep you from falling right through the middle, all the way to the stone floor before. Actually, you'd never make it to the stone floor. You'd almost certainly catch a leg or something on the way down through the tiny hole and end up wedged there - where no stretcher could reach you.

Exhilarating because:
(see above)

Due to my lack of knowledge of the Spanish language, I didn't know I was supposed to take an elevator to the top and only take the stairs down. Consequently, I met a lot of other tourists coming down while I tried to go up a spiral staircase which was perhaps 30" across - from stone wall to stone wall. It was exhilarating! ...And did I mention terrifying?

Miss Katie Cupcake

http://www.facebook.com/misskatiecupcake1

"Katie Cupcake" designs and creates some of the most unique and lovely jewelry I've ever seen. After years of hard work and dogged determination, she's opened a sweet little shop in Edinburgh, Scotland.










But if a trip to the UK is out of the question, :-) you can grab a Katie Cupcake original for yourself via her website: www.misskatiecupcake.com/ Lucky you!