My bad children!!! (Christ, valentine)

[Fluffy]

If you've ever owned a cat...

[Comet]

[quote=lilithu;1145887]My condolences on the plants. When I was in Santa Fe I forked up a lot of money for a beautiful kachina doll, hand-carved by a Hopi artisan out of cottonwood. I mean A LOT of money for a signed work of art. At home I put it on the highest shelf in the apartment, about 7 feet up. I come home after work one evening and there is the kachina, lying in three pieces on the ground. Luckily, when I glued the pieces back together you couldn't even see where it had broken. But I was certainly tempted to toss my cats into the street when I saw the carnage.
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If you'd ever like a new Kachina, let me know. I go back to visit my family in Albuquerque every year. There are a few places I can pick them up fairly cheaply, signed by the artist as well. Plus my mom has connections with an Acoma Indian lady she used to teach with.... she even has stuff in the Smithsonian!!!

They won't be the big huge two foot tall ones, but I can get you what ever kind you want at 6-8 inches for $20 or so.... Happy to do it, I own 3 myself now...

[lilithu]

Originally Posted by Comet

If you'd ever like a new Kachina, let me know. I go back to visit my family in Albuquerque every year. There are a few places I can pick them up fairly cheaply, signed by the artist as well. Plus my mom has connections with an Acoma Indian lady she used to teach with.... she even has stuff in the Smithsonian!!!

They won't be the big huge two foot tall ones, but I can get you what ever kind you want at 6-8 inches for $20 or so.... Happy to do it, I own 3 myself now...

You're so sweet! I have a couple of Navajo carved kachinas - Bear and Sunface - and they were pretty inexpensive. But my Crow Mother is Hopi carved, from (what used to be) a single continuous piece of cottonwood. Plus she is like no other Crow Mother I've ever seen. Crow Mother is usually depicted as plump and matronly, whereas mine is svelte and graceful. I guess you could call her a "modern interpretation" of the archetype.

Which ones do you have?

Maybe I've seen the stuff your mom's friend has in the Smithsonian. The American Indian museum is one of my favorites.

[Comet]

I have Crow, Woodpecker, and Mud (mud people) ones. They are on my fireplace mantel, WHERE MY CHILDREN KNOW THEY DO NOT GO OR DADDY GETS OUT THE EVIL SQUIRT BOTTLE!!!!!!!! So far, they have left them alone... despite the feathers, etc... on them!

All mine are Hopi made.

[lilithu]

Originally Posted by Comet

I have Crow, Woodpecker, and Mud (mud people) ones.

Kewl. What drew you to those three?

Originally Posted by Comet

They are on my fireplace mantel, WHERE MY CHILDREN KNOW THEY DO NOT GO OR DADDY GETS OUT THE EVIL SQUIRT BOTTLE!!!!!!!! So far, they have left them alone... despite the feathers, etc... on them!

Yeah, that reminds me. When I was last in New Orleans I bought a beautiful Mardi Gras mask. Most of the masks for sale are quite colorful, which is a little much for my tastes, but this one was all black and shaped like a cat. I shoulda known what would happen when I brought a "foreign cat" made of feathers into the house.

[Draka]

Originally Posted by Fluffy

If you've ever owned a cat...

So cute! Reminds me of my cat Spaz.

We have three furry children. All have very distinct personalities and quarks about them. We can usually tell what cat did what by the damage. The exposed corner of the couch where the fabric has been stripped away to bare wood...Spaz. If we hear claws on fabric in the middle of the night...Spaz. Puking...Spaz. Missy is relatively the good one. Haven't really caught her doing anything bad except for her dang missy prissy pickiness about the litter box, and she will use the mat in front of the box sometimes (we even have one of those automatic "LitterMaids" ). Now, Bast, her thing is freaking out several times a day and ripping through the house like the Flash is chasing her with a squirt bottle. She also frequents the top of the fridge and, for some strange reason (most likely jealousy), occasionally takes to peeing in my son's highchair (always a treat to wake up to in the morning).

Luckily, we have no plants in the house now. If we get some, which I'd like to, they will be hanging plants up away from furniture they could possibly climb on.

[ChristineES]

My Kachina is the Wolf Dancer. Someday I may have to get more.

[mball1297]

I can't count the number of holes in my carpet and walls from my puppies.

[DallasApple]

Yeah well has your dryer ever set on fier from a couple